Various drilling methods to drill oil. View of derricks scattered across a field in United States. Operation of a drill head. A springing device called shaker, removes rock particles from mud. Samples are then taken for testing purpose. Drill bits take core samples. Scientists perform various tests on the collected samples. Electric Logging is used at various depths of drilling. Detonation charges being prepared to be inserted inside the drill holes. A small diameter tubing and valves being installed at the surface. Chemicals being added to ease the flow of oil to the surface. Oil rigs at work. Animation shows flow of oil inside an underground reservoir. View of a natural gas cycling plant. An oil drilling site at sea.
An oil refinery in United States. Exteriors of Research laboratory building at the refinery. Animation shows the fractional distillation of crude oil in a fractionating tower. Cracking process being carried out to break bigger molecules into smaller ones. Catalytic distillation of crude oil being carried out. Several industries based on the byproducts of the petroleum refining industry.
Distribution of petroleum and by products in United States. View of an oil pipeline laid across a field. Machine digs trench for laying of the pipelines. Oil pipelines are cleaned, coated and wrapped before insertion into the trench. A map shows network of oil pipelines across United States. An oil pumping station. Animation shows various oil products being transported through the same pipeline. Oil tankers, railroad tank cars and tanker trucks being used to transport petroleum and by products. An oil tanker truck arrives at a gas station. Man refills the underground tank at a gas station. View of an automobile service station. Men fuel and service a Cadillac convertible.
The first test of a full-scale thermonuclear device in history. Explosion and shockwave during the test codenamed "Ivy Mike" on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, during Operation Ivy. Shock waves cause sea water to travel towards the coast. In the aftermath of the explosion sky turns red . Brief view of observors aboard a ship watching the nuclear blast in the distance. As the explosion recedes the sky turns dark. Smoke rises from the site of the explosion. A huge mushroom cloud of smoke is formed. Ivy Mike was the first successful Hydrogen bomb test.
Operation Desert Rock at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marines in tan overalls and wearing marine utility caps stand around Marine Corps jeeps near Yucca Flats, an atomic bomb test area. Two marines drive away in a jeep. An aircraft in flight as it leaves a vapor trail. The marines stand in desert as they wear utilities, cartridge belts, helmets. The marines carry rifles and BAR's( Browning Automatic Rifle). A small self propelled gun and LVT ( Landing Vehicle Tracked) in the background. A small board sticks out of sand. The marines walk by emplacements and look down into a foxhole. A member of a radiation team. A walkie talkie laid on the ground. Batteries and other equipment on the ground preceding test shot Dog of Operation Tumbler-Snapper.
Operation Desert Rock nuclear bomb test at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. A discarded walkie talkie lying on a sack on the ground. A dummy dressed like a man lying on the ground. Discarded vehicles, tanks and guns left around the area for testing the effects of nuclear blast. A mannequin in a foxhole. A dummy lying with two M1 rifles. A U.S. Marine walks into an underground trench. He prepares a dummy and then walks out again, all prior to test shot Dog during Operation Tumbler-Snapper of Desert Rock Exercises.
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