Industrial development in United States. Electronic machinery in a factory. View of a hydroelectric power plant. Man operates plant machinery. View of the plant from a moving train. Worker turns out molten steel in steel mill. An oil refinery. Men lay oil pipelines at the refinery.
Industrial development and industrial workers in the United States. Workers rivet steel beams. A large pipe is welded. View of an engine block assembly line and machining of cylinders. Oil drilling operations with many oil derricks. Workers drilling into rock. Ground is blasted. Railroad bridge. Smokestacks in the background. Workers entering industrial area. Coal mining workers exiting an elevator lift at surface.
Views of pipe lines for transportation of crude oil in United States. Shows a pipe line across a canyon. Workers dig trenches for a pipe line. Horse-drawn wagon loaded with pipes. Pipes stacked on ground. Railroad cars, teams and wagon in background. View of oil camp, mules, wagons, workers and a wooden bridge. Oil tank cars at a railroad yard transport crude oil. Crew at work on the deck of an oil tanker.
Separation of crude oil into various components at a refinery in United States. Crude oil in the still is divided by heat into gasoline, fuel oil, lubricating oil and many by-products. Animated diagram shows a tank of crude oil with fire under it and a pipe leading to a condenser. Naphtha and gasoline distillate, kerosene distillate, lubricating oils, paraffin distillate, coke and other by products are obtained. A worker shovels coke out of the door at base of the still. Workers load coke into wheelbarrow.
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.
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