Squirt's Journey

Follow the adventures as Squirt moves from deep underground to a product near you

I started at the bottom
and worked down from there

Long ago and far away, I was a carbon based life form just like you.

Then I settled on the floor of a beautiful warm sea and sediment began falling on top of me. Over many, many years, I became "kerogen", much like top soil. As I went deeper and deeper, toward the center of the Earth, it got hotter and hotter and I began to transform into oil and gas. There I was, for millions of years when one day, off in the distance, I heard a seismic BOOM!

Learn more in our Geology section

There coming to take me away!

It wasn't long before that drill bit came crashing right through the rock roof overhead

When the well was completed, there was a nice pump to lift me up through the shiny steel casing, all the way to the surface. I had to rest awhile in a field storage tank and get ready for my next adventure.

Learn more in our Drilling section

Moving On

One day a truck came and hauled me off to a battery

It was like I'd been playing outside in the mud. I had to get cleaned up before I could go on. They took away the sand and water that had come along with me. Then they heated me and sent me here and there but finally I was clean enough to take a ride in a pipeline, all the way to the Upgrader.

Learn more in our Transportation section

I get upgraded and refined

Wow, this was like school. I had to take lots of classes in hard subjects like hydrocracking and desulphurization

They said I needed extra help because I was "heavy" oil. I was heated and treated and heated again. I was cleaned again, lost weight, got in shape and learned how I could become asphalt, or gasoline or even jet fuel. It was hard to know what I would do when I graduated.

Learn more in our Refining section

Now here I am with YOU!

Look around. You can see hundreds of things that I help make up. It's nice to have a career where I can help people and be an important part of today's world

Thanks for visiting and learning about my journey. Best wishes on your journey home (you'll be driving over me as you go along the pavement).
I know that your journey can be as exciting and fulfilling as mine. Good Luck!

Learn more in our End Users section