An official of the island's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum has specified that any companies extracting hydrocarbons in the neighbourhood must also develop and use carbon-storage technology.

The olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, are formed from petroleum gas or from cracking of larger hydrocarbons. Ethylene is used to make polyethylene e.g.

Various theories and suppositions have been proposed about the origin of petroleum hydrocarbons. It is really a hot topic .