How has Mankind Mastered Oil Production?
Oil is still the backbone of the energy and chemical industries, and about 200 years ago, people did not know what it was possible to use this black oily liquid from some places. They used vegetable and animal fats for lubrication, and they also burned in lamps used to make cosmetics. Tar and turpentine are found in wood resin, blabbers from large marine animals, and musk from several species of bulls and deer.
The use of butter derived from cow’s milk was not limited to spreading it on bread, and in this case, the meat could be derived from the milk of other animals. In general, raw materials and fuel were enough for humanity.
However, people quickly discovered its explosive properties in areas where oil is leaking underground. They started decorating it with wooden cups, poured it into the jug, and then illuminated it and thus illuminated and heated their houses. They tolerate an unpleasant odor due to the lack of vegetable fuel in those parts, i.e., firewood, but they avoid cooking food for oil so that it does not smell.
Sometimes the oil flowed to the surface with the water, mixed with the forest springs. The North American Indians knew of such a source, and the cheetahs collected oil from their surface and then trapped it in a world. This method was taken from them by pale-faced immigrants, and only then did they learn to get mineral oil from the oil and kerosene, which is more suitable for burning in lamps.
Gas is a by-product of refining oil – people didn’t know where to put it. It was then found that he was good at cleaning shiny stains from his clothes and then patented a gaslighter, which attracted the cowboy very much – it does not go in a strong wind and rain.
In general, mankind has become a part of the taste of oil intake, and in the meantime, there was a lack of oil coming out of the ground, there was no time to look for new oil sources, and oil had to be collected with rags. Some people realized that there are oil sources in places, there are underground oil deposits, they tried to dig there, but the oil fell to the ground and fell to the ground. Then they decided to drill the wells, to drill the oil wells. They did it on sandy and rocky soils. Previously, these were desert areas unsuitable for agriculture and cattle breeding, and people seldom settled there. Now, the development work is in full swing.
At first, there was a disturbance. If it punches the oil level well, the oil doesn’t want it to go up. Do not scoop it with a bucket of rope!
Somehow, with already heavy debt, one of the oil producers fell asleep on top of another well, shaking hands. In the morning, his son was looking at the well, passing by, and it was full of oil on top. And the drainage went with power and origin. It is easily extracted from the bottom of the earth as soda through a straw. Someone spread the earth with a hand-driven drill with two handles; someone punched with a huge resemblance to a steam-powered chisel.
Cars appeared in the late 19th century, and as their popularity grew, so did the level of oil production. At the same time, China and other backward countries burned kerosene by the strong and major as an important market for the Standard Oil Company and other “capitalist sharks.”
Soon, other by-products related to petroleum refining – petroleum jelly, kinds of paraffin – were found. Oil is the main fuel and the most important chemical raw material. However, there is currently a serious problem with its deficiency, so an intensive search is needed for other energy and raw material sources.