ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Gas oil separation plant

So imagine you're at a big party and there's a big bowl of punch with fruit and ice in it. But you don't want to drink the fruit and the ice because you just want the sweet, yummy punch juice.

A gas oil separation plant is kind of like that big bowl of punch. Except instead of punch, it separates gas and oil from each other. You see, when people drill for oil, they often find gas too. And the gas is mixed up with the oil, just like the fruit and ice in the punch bowl.

But just like you only want to drink the juice from the punch, oil companies only want to use the oil they've found. So they need a way to separate it from the gas.

The gas oil separation plant uses machines and equipment to take the oil out of the gas. It's kind of like a big kitchen where the oil and gas are the ingredients, and the machines are the tools used to separate them.

In the end, the oil is used for many things we need like fuel for cars and heating our homes. And the gas can be used for things like cooking and making electricity. And just like how you only want the sweet, yummy punch juice, oil companies only want the oil, so that's what they use.