ABSTRACT
Energy production from petroleum and use of the products can be major sources of environmental impacts, which in turn can threaten the overall social and economic development and objectives that petroleum use is expected to promote. At regional and global levels, fossil fuel consumption leads to acid rain, and most likely to global climate change, which, it should not be forgotten, includes the warming effect of being in an interglacial period. Thus, the production of energy from petroleum is one of the greatest concerns of the countries in twenty-first century.
