Depends upon what you call major. Idaho Falls ID is about 155 miles from Yellowstone. It has a mall. The nearest city with over a million residents is Denver CO, about 580 miles from Yellowstone. Amused Contestant Â· 6 years ago.
Â­ Crude oil is the term for unprocessed oil, the stuff that comes out of the ground. It is also known as petroleum. Crude oil is a fossil fuel, meaning that it was made naturalÂ­ly from decaying plants and animals living in ancient seas millions of years ago -- most places you can find crude oil were once sea beds. Crude oils vary in color, from clear to tar-black, and in viscosity, from water to almost solid.
From Crude Oil. The oil refining process starts with a fractional distillation column. The problem with crude oil is that it contains hundreds of different types of hydrocarbons all mixed together. You have to separate the different types of hydrocarbons to have anything useful.Fortunately there is an easy way to separate things, and this is what oil refining is all about.o understand the diversity contained in crude oil, and to understand why refining crude oil is so important in our society, look through the following list of products that come from crude oil: Petroleum gas-used for heating, cooking, making plastics. 1  small alkanes (1 to 4 carbon atoms).