History of oil production. Part 2
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....
Oil products
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...
History of oil production. Part 3
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...
Oil refining products
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...
