Among all engineering creations, drilling platforms are Gullivers, in comparison with which even large ships seem like midgets. Modern structures weighing more than half a million tons, capable of drilling wells up to 10-13 km and created by human hands! The largest platforms are recognized: The TROLL-A reinforced concrete industrial platform is the world's heaviest man-made object...
Approximately 3 thousand years BC. e. The inhabitants of the Middle East are beginning to use oil as fuel, for the manufacture of weapons, for lamps and building materials (bitumen, asphalt). Oil was collected from the surface of open reservoirs. AD 347 e. In China, for the first time, wells were drilled in the ground to...
1870 - the first experience of creating an oil monopoly. 1877. For the first time in the world, Russia is starting to use tankers to deliver oil from Baku fields to Astrakhan. 1886. German engineers Karl Benz, Wilhelm Daimler created a car powered by a gasoline engine. 1905. The first large-scale fire in non-oil fields occurred in Baku. 1908....
Petroleum products are mixtures of hydrocarbons, as well as individual chemical compounds obtained from oil and petroleum gases. Oil products include various types of fuel (gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, etc.), lubricants, electrical insulating media, solvents, petrochemical raw materials. Petroleum products are obtained as a result of a chemical process - the distillation of oil, from which substances...
1973. First oil embargo. 1975. The US Congress decided to create a strategic oil reserve in the country in order to reduce the dependence of the economy on export oil in the future. 1981. OPEC countries have reduced oil production by about a quarter compared to 1978. Oil prices have doubled. 1982. OPEC countries set oil production quotas...
Crude oil is practically not used. It is cleaned and recycled. There is primary and secondary oil refining. Initial oil refining is distillation, as a result of which oil products are divided into components: liquefied gas; gasolines (automobile and aviation); jet fuel; kerosene; diesel fuel (solar oil); fuel oil. The first five types of petroleum products are fuel. And fuel oil is processed...
The first stage is called joking. First I joke about promising areas - pasta. For this majestic territory, they are furnished with ultra-modern methods: they are photographed from space, “shine through” with seismic winds, and are heard with special devices. Fahіvtsі fold up maps and paint geological cuts of the earth's crust, on which one can...
Venezuela - proven oil reserves (barrels): 297.7 billion barrels. The country remains heavily dependent on oil revenues, accounting for approximately 96% of export earnings, about 40% of government revenues and 11% of GDP. Saudi Arabia - oil reserves (barrels): 268.4 billion The country was the largest player in the oil market last year. Last November, Saudi...
The unique concentrated Econad products will help you completely remove stains from fats and oil products. Apply cleaners to: cleaning of rolling stock on the railway, nodes; removal of oil contaminants from asphalt concrete pavements; cleaning of mechanisms not in direct contact with food; washing of filtering equipment from hydrocarbons; washing tanks, reservoirs and other types of storage for petroleum products; washing...
Oil sorbents are materials that are used to collect oil and oil products from the surface of water bodies. What oil sorbents do: remove pollution without environmental damage; block oil pollution in the shortest possible time; localize oil slicks and prevent further spread of oil products; ensure further restoration of natural balance. Many experts recommend the use of ECONAD sorbents, since...
