油气工程英语-(English).doc

油气工程英语 UNIT 1 Origin of Oil and Gas 石油和天然气的成因 Oil and gas result mostly from dead microorganisms buried quickly in anoxic environments , where oxygen is so scarce that they do not decompose. This lack of oxygen enables them to maintain their hydrogen-carbon bonds , a necessary ingredient for the production of fossil fuels. Newly developing ocean basins ,formed by plate tectonics and continental rifting (deforrnation) , provide just the right conditions for rapid burial in anoxic waters. Rivers fill these basins with sediments carrying abundant organic remains. Because the basins have co