On Monday the 7th of March Generation Science came for a visit. We got to do all sorts of things like building a model of a drill to collect oil and we looked at the world when there was no continents which was called Pangaea. We talked about all the layers and some types of rocks but the visit was mostly about oil and how it was formed. Oil was formed by dead plankton under the sea then it was pushed into a source rock then heat and pressure pushed it up into a reservoir rock with holes like a sponge. It got through the holes then the cap rock, which is like a lid of a bottle, stopped the oil getting to the surface. It can then be found using a thumper truck and sound and then core samples are drilled. We had to match the samples to the rock formations.
Finally we got to build an oil rig in teams which was really interesting, and I know oil rigs have a bridge, a derrick and a platform. We learned lots from the visit, including how oil is running out and we need to find a more sustainable energy source.
