HOW AN OIL REFINERY WORKS SHELL OIL HISTORIC FILM 71862

Man, what ever happened to explaining things with visual and practical examples? Learning theory from a book is cool and all, but I can't understand things until I see them working.

Did Shell show us how they killed tens of thousands of Nigerians in the name of Oil?

Excelent video, this explanation cost for two semesters in petroleum university

Nothing like continuing to use the energy from the industrial revolution hundreds of years later, to the detriment of the planet.

Best explanation I've ever seen! Makes it very clear. Now I'm curious what's changed in the last 60-70 years...

I also found this interesting because living in the SF Bay Area, there are a couple refineries around the bay (I know most people don't think of San Francisco and Big Oil in the same sentence , but this IS where Standard Oil got started, and is now called Chevron). So, I've driven past these oil tank farm and refineries since I was born, and was alway curious about what was going on.

Heavy oil is used by the 5,000+ container ships around the globe. To get it requires cooking off lighter hydrocarbons gasoline, turbine fuel and diesel. Isn't that convenient? The ratios are what is fascinating. 1.5 gallons heavy oil per 42 gallon barrel of crude. 12 gallons diesel, about 20 gallons gasoline and 4 gallons jet fuel. Plus about 12 gallons of other distillates and feed stocks that go to all other petroleum things from lipstick to candles and propane, Plastic and thinners. Over 90% of roads are asphalt based. Society runs on diesel and the specialty vehicles that make it all go around. Distillation, cracking and use of petroleum products make it impossible to not have gasoline having to go some place should there be 50% transition to EVs. Gas would necessarily be 20 cents a gallon just to get rid of it.

Fascinating, as usual.

Crazy they could afford to license the cup head soundtrack for this.

The process of a refinery actually starts bribing the various officials in Nigeria @Shell

It seems there was a golden era of teaching in the 1950s (maybe ushered in by Richard Feynman) to explain things with simple words and strong visuals. Teaching you core concepts instead of vocabulary.

Thank you Periscope for making this available. It's a shame that all of the modern renditions are devoid of specifics. Nowadays, profit comes before pursuit of knowledge any day. Hopefully one day films like these begin being made again in our country.

And windmills will replace all that energy-SMH Do people realize how many products come from petroleum products?

Such a lovely company. Would be a shame if it entangled itself in neo-colonialism in some African country, hiring private enforcers, that would kill exceptionally disagreeable people, while polluting the heck out of every metre of land around its operation...

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I was awarded my Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in 1980. I wish this video (okay, film) had been shown in my Unit Operations class. It is excellent!

the good old times when chemistry was not black magic

I loved the film , i have never understand this process . But I watching this video I got the process thank you so much for uploading it

Need to have Elon Musk build the refineries.
He would not take ten years to put one on line.

anybody else get stoned and watch these? Shits fascinating hahaha

Excellent video. Very accurate. Made an old distillation column operator smile. You should definitely watch this video before reading any distillation book written by Henry Kister.

2chemical engineers (nephew&grand nephew)in my family. I live close to 2 oil refineries .l worked for Spoornet and my job took me to both refineries. Amazing experience. If one stands in front of the refineries it's sound is strange and eerie.

Give me fossil fuels, or give me death! 🖤

Sounds like Rod Serling

fantastic video! really explains oil refinement well!

well explained on the basics , superb.

This video just proves that "old-school" works far better than any garbage "modern" education.

My father retired from there, thankfully before Brandon got in office. My dad was a supervisor for 36 years. He use to call it prison because it was 12 hour shifts

A "cracking" good story 😂

Soon...

Out of all the animations ive seen explaining this process, i never could fathom any of it, until this! That was an amazing learning movie, they did a great job-

Best documentry Thanks lot👍🙏

I swear you could get a college degree by just watching these videos

Very thorough video that explains various stages in the refining processes... I would imagine by now, even more extensive molecular change processes have been introduced and developed...

fantastic and simple explanation of refinery process

Fantastic illustrations

This is how we need to learn!

I always fuel up at the Shell station.

This film is still the best explanation of refinery processes.

Straightforward and practical demo of the process at the start of the video. Very good

Science facinate me

Does anyone happen to know the location of this refinery?

Me wondering if the person is still alive????

Kudos to the engineers that figured this out.

I've been in the industry for 20 years. Films like this are exceptional for our newer operators

Informative video that not only explains the process but a bit of chemistry behind it.

The background score is 😅😅

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why do old videos explain things so well and detailed? i watched dozens of modern videos that just shove a vague diagram at you and your left wondering how the distillation actually happens with liquids and gasses separating so neatly. this video goes into detail and treats you like your intelligent.