Uses of different petroleum products in the United States. Petroleum products are distributed and filled in different containers. Men walk on a pathway on both sides of which is heavy machinery. Three men standing on a platform work on the fuel tank of a tank truck. Men fill petroleum products in containers using pipes. The containers are then sealed. They are rolled towards a weighing machine and are weighed. Two men work on machinery. Small containers are weighed and sorted.
Uses of different petroleum products in the United States. Two cars at a service station. One of the cars is driven away. Another car pulls in the station. Attendants fill gasoline in the cars. A structure on the top of a pole. A piston in the structure goes up and down.
Oil products are used for different purposes in the United States. Generators using petroleum as a fuel are used for lighting. A man works on machinery. A child near a sewing machine. Farmers plow a field using tractors. A woman wipes dishes in the light of a kerosene lamp. A miner puts a candle in a bottle and lights it in his cabin.
'The Story of Petroleum' shows how an oil field is located and how an oil well is drilled in the United States. A member of a field party makes a contour map in a hilly terrain. A geologist carries a rod. A derrick is built on the established location of the well. Men put drilling equipment at the base of the derrick in the process called 'rigging up'. Equipment of the rotary method of drilling in operation. Animation shows the different strata of the earth crust. Men operate the drilling equipment. The animation shows how a bore is drilled through the layers of shale and sandstone to reach oil sand below.
Method of pumping oil out of an oil well in the United States. A lump of sugar is dipped in a cup of tea to show how oil is contained in oil sands. A man pours nitroglycerin in an oil bore. Animation depicts how this is done. A shooter lights a squib which contains dynamite and drops it into the well to detonate the charge. Animation shows how the squib is dropped, the resultant explosion at the bottom and how the oil rushes up in the well. A derrick. Temporary field storage tanks in which the oil is stored after it has been pumped out of the well. Oil shoots out of a derrick because of underground pressure.
Oil fields in the United States. An oil camp for oil workers. Stacked pipes at the camp. Houses of the workers in the background. Children on a path in front of the houses. A board reads ' Sinclair Oils Power'. Pipes are carried on a long trolley pulled by a tractor. Casinghead gas which is rich in gasoline escapes out from an oil well. Derricks in the background. A part of a casinghead gasoline extraction plant. Machinery at the plant. Compressors which are run on diesel engines at the plant.
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