The refinery brought back memories. Used to work in the harbor maintaining and renovating one. A lot of people don't realize how old some of these instalations can be. Oldest oiltank I ever refurbished stil had a plate comemerating the day it's foundation was laid in 1903.
We dug up a pipe from ww2 era. It had been repaired numerous times because all of the steel was feeding the war effort and they couldn’t get any new pipe to replace it
Blood for oil. No time time for flowers except on our sons and daughters coffins. Soon it shall be all ours and can have it all. From our oil control, drugs and war industry, and we can make people pay and control them as we please.
I really appreciate how little actual information was presented versus fluff and filler. I love filler. It allows me to pass time mindlessly. Thank you for teaching me nothing, because I hate to have to think too much.
I am now completely educated in the process of making gasoline/petrol from crude oil. The great detail of this highly complex procedure was broken down into an easily understandable concise lesson that left me feeling more than capable of manufacturing gasoline.
Davrock, if anybody can refine crude oil into gasoline it's you baby. Edit. I didn't realize this was 3 years old. Have you made any gasoline or just stuck to producing gas?
My poppa worked on a Texas rig most his life. When I was born he wanted to name me Diesel, but my momma said she wasn't gonna raise no damn fuel as a son. So, my name's Gilbert.
On road trips to West Virignia, we'd pass by a refinery on I-64 near the Kentucky line. Numbers don't do these places justice; they really are massive engineering masterpieces.
Just a small correction, the drilling fluid's main purpose is to actually equalise the borehole pressure and formation pressure. Otherwise it will collapse and a blowout is possible. Its secondary purpose is to cool the bit and carry cuttings etc...
@@dickJohnsonpeter They're riding bikes to save time. Vehicles are driven in refineries ,too. Plenty of shit going on to cause explosions, driving not really one of them.
An love how they fail to mention only a very small percent of Texas oil is actually turned into "Petrol" or Gasoline as we call it. Because it is one of the hardest to refine.
Good point. Petrol and diesel are a combination of various products produced by the refining process. These are stored in the Tank Farm until blended by a "blender" to the required specifications. This is where the Lab comes in by testing and adjusting the blends to meet the requirements. Petrol is a mixture of motor spirits and gases "Butane" and diesel is a mixture of gas oils and kerosenes. Additives are added to improve flow, energy produced and local emission laws.
Mark Herndon Usually us Brits make fun of Americans for lack of knowledge in some areas and pronunciation and spellings... But this guy makes me feel ashamed to be British. It’s a nice video for 10 year olds (or a complex one for him). And I cringed every time he pronounced Houston so badly! It’s not like it’s some small village in Montana. Yes, we have Euston station in London and it probably makes more sense to spell it like that but who cares? When in Rome/Houston(we have a problem...)
Just amazing the amount of engineering and machinery involved in this process. However, in the same breath, how vulnerable these facilities are to weather and other dangerous actions. It seems like so many eggs are in one basket when it comes to something that is critical to our basic needs.
Kinda neat seeing this. When I was 19-20 yrs old, worked as inspector of non-destructive testing at ARCO pipe division just outside Baytown. Also got to work with Hughes Tool Co., Schumberger, Oxy, IDF, SEDCO, Dresser, and a few others. Wonderful time, just before OPEC dropped price of oil to $8 a barrel. Killed economy in Houston so I joined military.
One of my buddies was an aircraft NDI inspector during our days in the Marine Corps. We were on deployment together in the Far East in 1984. In January we were roasting our asses off in the Philippines... a month later in South Korea where it was snowing. We lived, ate and showered in tents. Good Times.😄
and now with oil going in the opposite direction its going to not only kill the economy but its going to kill people and entire industries and maybe the country itself
When you use small engines to push mow in town or do work out on a farm or similar, you get to appreciate just how much work gets done for $2.25 +/- It's a hard days' work when I go through 1 gallon of chainsaw fuel.
@@PySnek it’s more for limiting ignition sources inside the process units and utilizing a lighter and more controllable vehicle in those critical areas. The plants are so big that bicycles are an absolute necessity when it comes to reducing worker fatigue and saving time. Bumping into piping doesn’t really ever happen unless the operator really breaks the rules and deviates off the designated pathway. Most of the process units have pathways large enough for two pickups to drive though side by side, but you will never see them in there unless during a shutdown and only to deliver material. And even then that scenario is unlikely. So bicycles are absolutely a safer method of transportation inside these facilities even though there are potential hazards to their use like anything else. The incident frequency of just walking inside these facilities would likely be surprising to you.
It’s amazing how much oil production has grown in Texas since this video was made - more than 5.5 times - from 900,000bpd to 5 million just before the 2020 Coronacrash event.
With 10 billion left. Pumping out 5 Millon per day. If my math is right. About 5.5 years till it's exhausted! Of course you said that was before covid crash. But still don't look like much left
@@bctruck l, was born here 57 years ago, glad your gone. Anyone else doesn't like it here, the same road brought you here can take you back. I didn't move to your home and talk crap about it. Proud to be US citizen Proud to be a Texan at least 4 gen. on both sides and Proud to be from W.TX.
Assuming that the price of gas (petrol) fluctuates evenly with the price of crude oil, the price of gas pays for 87% of the cost of the crude. This doesn't include the labor and refining costs, but considering how many other products come from crude oil (diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, plastics, asphalt, lubricating oils, etc), it's safe to assume that the operating costs are covered dozens of times over. Judging by the huge profits generated, this proves that the consortium of oil producers conspire to keep the prices inflated.
It’s a fascinating technology. When I’m out quail hunting in New Mexico with my shorthair pointers, I often stop at a production site and look around. Also here in Wyoming, out in my chukar hunting territory there are some wells. I appreciate what petroleum has done to make life better. The next step is nuclear though. LFTR and then Fusion
I admire that lifestyle. From Chicago here and what you talk about might as well be considered the same as "big game hunts" in Africa that kill apex predators, by all the crybaby liberals. It's a shame here now that just being a man is considered toxic, and if you believe that hunting for your own food, living off the land, and knowing how to survive and provide for your family is an important/great skill set up have, and some of these liberal, "mostly" peaceful groups find out, they will do everything they can to disrupt, disturb, and cause ruin to you and your family. Thank God I joined the Marine Corps right after high school and I learned I wasn't some strange, toxic person for thinking that way. Good luck on your hunting trips and stay safe!
Listen man I believe its not that simple because i dont want a nuclear car. I looked at investing into uranium mines but listen bro I already dont have the best lungs or eyes and last thing i need is to be breathing in uranium dust pointing a counter at an unknown smufhe in the wall and my eyeballs take in a huge blast of radiation from some unknown material. Its hard to find people willing to dig up uranium because of the dust. Its worth getting some fpr specific purposes. For example, you wamt a few reators strategically placed and closely monitored. Some nuclear bombs that work real good just incase. Some other applications. But i dont think "the next step" is uranium. The next step is D) all of the above. Uranium has uses but you cant just tell me uranium is the next step when the plastic bag i put my giant sliced up sandwhich into cant be made from uranium. Uranium is an element. Petroleum cant replace uranium and uranium isnt replacing it either. You crazy with this "next step" im in new mexico and this place digs uranium, mines coal, and pumps crude all at the same time and its a dry wasteland of sadness with chapped lips and ghost towns becsuse theyres nothin man its sand is all you got. You cant pan for gold in sand bro. Well you can but its going to be a lot of sand. We are lucky they found any coal at all here 😂 where the hell did all the sane come from? What else do we do? Maybe make glass?
@Ronald 240Bravo you're full of shit , about 60% of power is generated by coal and gas in the usa . you are a liar to omit that hydro and nuclear account for 40% with biomass, wind, geothermal, and solar power helping . and the states where EV's are used its PRIMARILY the other sources , so fuck yourself and your silly little "can't live without burning oil" delusion
There is no mention of catalytic cracking which is a key refinery technique that allows the ratio of different fuels (gasoline and diesel for example) to be adjusted to match demand.
Dude that's nice my brother worked as a contractor welder for Exxon he told me it's good work just got to watch and plan ahead before doing anything in there
@@underswappapyrustheskeleto3427 A good place to start your research is distillation (fractional distillation to be more specific) and how does molecular weight, structure, and intermolecular forces play a role in the boiling point of compounds. this can become very interesting because this can be applied to every chemical!
@@lemonflavorclorox7389 ..octane rating is increased by adding more octane to gasoline (which is mostly heptane) . Anti-knock is different. I am completely against the program but one side benefit is concentrated protein animal feed.
@@SunriseLAW From what I can find online "Adding ethanol to gasoline in lower percentages, such as 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline (E10), reduces carbon monoxide emissions from the gasoline and improves fuel octane". More the octane, less the knock, which is an unintended early combustion of gas and air mixture. That said, yes, I 100% agree with you; such programs are often the result of successful lobbying to make the corps wealthy. They almost always never consider alternatives in such cases.
1:10 really glad all those great Texans (respect!) Been drilling for oil there in Texas since late 1880's. *I'd like to point out that everyone in Penn's Wood, (Pennsylvania) knows well that in Titusville, PA, we were successfully drilling since August 1859. By 1862 it was quite a commercial operation.* Good video.
Many Years ago I lived in a town called Ashland, Kentucky. Home of Ashland Oil. Valvoline was one of theirs. The refinery is No Joke. It is a HUGE Complex. It is without a dought its own little city. The smell from the Refinery and the 10 tracks of Coal Trains was crazy. So glad I don't live there anymore.
Years ago, I worked for a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, OK. One day, with time on my hands, I went to PP's corporate office downtown. On the massive first floor, they had a veritable museum of all sorts of petroleum harvesting equipment on display. To me, the most impressive part of the display was the HUNDREDS of examples of finished products derived from crude oil. Interestingly, while 'fuels' were the biggest part of it, I learned many THOUSANDS of items are made from petroleum by-products. So, if all you Lefties want to get rid of 'fossil fuel' harvesting, you better get ready to ALSO say goodbye to products such as perfume, hair dye, cosmetics, hand lotion, VASELINE, toothpaste, deodorant, panty hose, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and EVERYTHING made of plastic.
We need the oil we got to last man. If we run out im afraid a luthium or cobalt battery just aint gonna cut it. These semis need a pumpable liquid fuel one way or another. You got 2 guys sleeping in shifts going from LA to New York city to miami and then san diego. Unless you got a magic battery its going to suck to charge that joint
When people were having their crude oil from their shares delivered to their homes during the 1st lockdown, a large number were clueless as to what to do, like a lot of people who buy shares, etc, nowadays. However, they can siphon it off by pouring oil into a reservoir on heat, have an umbrella over that to catch the evaporating liquid, and all that sitting over a basin to collect the dripping liquid from the umbrella. Once the oil is 40C or 50C, lubricants for bike maintenance will evaporate solely from the rest of the oil. Store the lubricant if you want it. Then slowly raise the temp until the next product separates from the oil. I think gasoline and diesel separates at around 250C each. Things like petroleum jelly, and food/medicines separates at temps in between. You’re gonna need something more sophisticated to reach the higher temps. You can then sell your stores, and always make a profit at any price if you do all the work in between, or sell your barrel of crude for half the price, at best.
That man said that oil is the lifeblood of America 11 years ago; and oil is the lifeblood of America in 2022;and will the lifeblood of America; and the rest of the world for the foreseeable future!
99% of people who recognise the presenter: “Hey look it’s Robert Llewellyn from fully charged” 1% of people who recognise the presenter: “Hey look it’s Kryten from Red Dwarf”
I lived in Cleveland in the 60's and a block from Sohio Refinery #2. The huge cracking (separation) tower was a well remembered sight. John D. Rockefeller owned most of the property around my house.
Good ol ExxonMobil. I worked in that plant for years as a contractor. 6:20 is heading south on San Jacinto street just north of west street, with OMCC to the left.
Meee tooo, I wanted to have my crew and I on that show,I applied 3 times,guess they didn't really want a group of truly Mechanical gifted people on the show.
"To separate the carbon atoms you'll need one heck of a chemistry set" - goes on to show you just boil it and catch the vapor at different elevations. kek
It was a treat to see the "knocking engine machine" being used. That little gem was a big reason why we won ww2. higher octane fuel that was developed for our aircraft b/c of the "knocking engine machine"
That is actually have a lot of chemical processes work. Thanks a lot of chemistry experiments involved boiling chemicals and condensing the vapors. So yes it is a big chemistry set.
There's actually a bit more to it than merely heating & catching vapors. There are catalytic elements involved, plus a whole lot of sciencey stuff the narrator doesn't go into, because it'd be kinda boring to the average layman.
Good video, thanks. Well done. I learned a few things. 1 suggestion: you could mention the metals used to pump gas in and out of trucks are not spark-producing. I think it's magnesium.
I don't know about that but I can tell you the metal couplers on the fuel hoses are aluminum. There is also a grounding wire embedded in the hose itself. At least that's how it is on my rig.
Awesome vid,great commentary and videography and editing thankyou I always wondered how they made fuels from crude and the numbers and types of fuel from each barrel of crude is surprising,Best wishes to you all, from, Auckland, New Zealand. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🤣✅🙂🙂🙂😉😉
LOL! Pennsylvania grade crude (also found in Western NY) isn't sticky, isn't black, and doesn't smell like rotten eggs. And you don't have to drill two miles deep to get it. Low sulfur, high in lubricants. Actually smells kind of pleasant and familiar if you grew up with it. Oh, and you don't really need that powered wrench- I've done it the hard way, with two HUGE wrenches that it takes a strong man to pick up, and a chain binder to tighten or loosen the pipe and/or tools.
Yeah- for low-rpm, low-temperature applications, Quaker State and Pennzoil type oils were just about perfect. Actually, for each barrel of oil, you get X gallons of diesel, Y gallons of gasoline, Z gallons of lubricants, etc. The different grades of crude have different mixes. For example, Venezuelan crude has almost no gasoline, and to get it takes expensive advanced refining.
They skipped over a lot of steps in this video. Casing, cement, toe prep, plug & perf, and hydraulic fracturing all come before production... especially in the Permian Basin. And in modern day a lot of operators are using a wide variety of artificial lift systems (example used in this video is a pump jack). You also have plunger pumps, gas lift, electronic submersible pumps, etc.
I was thinking that too, my guess is that they add other things to the other by products, like ethanol to the petrol, and some more solid stuff to the asphalt, that or some of the byproducts simply take up more room than they do when theyre dissolved into the crude.
Trainfan1055 yes true but in 4 wheel drive uses more to get 1 way so 770 round trips would be maybe 524? He made an error and also going 60mph. Never said that either.
Well, that’s alarming! If they “...pump out 900 thousand barrels every day” and there’s only 10 billion barrels left, then it’ll ALL be gone in a mere 30 years (within a single generation).
There is much more than 10 billion barrels. BP’s estimate is roughly 1,690 billion barrels that would be economically feasible to obtain using today’s technology.
my dad works at a refinery and its actually so awesome there. its so big they have their own streets with names and their own fire department that is just for the refinery. he also showed me a tank they still use that is from the nazis it even has swastikas on it. but they still use it because its useful its just interesting to see. (keep in mind this is in the US at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California
Nazi memorabilia is a tough game because on one hand its interestong history, in the other hand you know yohr firetruck surely wasnt being used to extinquish burning jews 😬
Like the hundreds of other nations have done for other things? Like the Brit's with their trade routes? Like Germany did to Russia? Like Japan did with China? .. America does it 1 time and ya'all talk shit. mean while Europe has been doing it for thousands of years for less things in value then crude oil.
I worked in refineries for years all of them in the bay area...I didn't know how they made gas..... didn't really care....I'm a ua 342 welder...if you asked how it was made you'd probably get fired. I was at Shell in 89 when the big earthquake hit. Nothing happened to the refinery...The trucks were rocking back and forth and the colums were swaying.
I love the smell of both gasoline & diesel fuel. It's a rather amazing discovery. Also the human accomplishment of the combustion engine. Really neat stuff. Power from harnessing fire! Just think about it......
@@mtksbctk I wish more things would mention them though, it's an important step of further refining gasoline to usable levels for car engines and such. I want the detailed explanations!
I miss the good old days when you could get gas for less than 75 cents per gallon, a couple bucks let you cruise around with no worries in the world. Now it's like buying a bottle of jack daniels every time you put gas in your car.
British, Australians, Irish (Maybe) = Petrol North Americans = Gasoline/Fuel Canada = Petrol/Fuel (it Varies, because some are French/British or Scottish etc)
Lol! He's not saying that it has 168 litres within the 159 litres. I would think making things like asphalt you'd probably have to add things during the "production" process! I love when RUclips commenters say things to insult other's intelligence and end up proving their own intelligence.
I'm not a petroleum engineer, but I think I know the answer to this. What you have to consider is the densities of the different fluids that come out of the refining process. The question isn't how many liters go in and come out of the process, and are these volumes equal. The question is how much mass goes in and how much mass comes out. The mass going in and out should be the same. So if 100 Kg of dense crude go in, and 100 Kg of various distilled products comes out then everything makes sense. But what can happen is that the fluids that come out will be much less dense than the crude and so you end up with a larger volume. I'll give you an example. Add a cup of honey to a liter of water. At first it will displace the water and increase the volume in the glass by 1 cup. But then as the honey dissolves into the water the volume will reduce and the glass of honey water will have a higher density than either honey or water alone. If you were to measure the volume of that honey water solution, and then distill the liquid and measure the volume of the honey and the water separately, you would see that more volume came out than went in to the distiller. It is the same principal. Mass in = Mass out
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As someone who hauls crude oil every day, I’m really glad I found this video. Very informative.
The refinery brought back memories. Used to work in the harbor maintaining and renovating one. A lot of people don't realize how old some of these instalations can be. Oldest oiltank I ever refurbished stil had a plate comemerating the day it's foundation was laid in 1903.
Back in those days Nicola Tesla invented free electricity for the whole world...
We dug up a pipe from ww2 era. It had been repaired numerous times because all of the steel was feeding the war effort and they couldn’t get any new pipe to replace it
Back in those days, things were built to last a long while, with some maintenance from someone that knew what they were doing.
Blood for oil. No time time for flowers except on our sons and daughters coffins. Soon it shall be all ours and can have it all. From our oil control, drugs and war industry, and we can make people pay and control them as we please.
@@lisapotter3052 take that L
I really appreciate how little actual information was presented versus fluff and filler. I love filler. It allows me to pass time mindlessly. Thank you for teaching me nothing, because I hate to have to think too much.
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I am now completely educated in the process of making gasoline/petrol from crude oil. The great detail of this highly complex procedure was broken down into an easily understandable concise lesson that left me feeling more than capable of manufacturing gasoline.
Kinda this is short version histories how it's made has a 2 hr special I seen
Oil and how bad we need it
Davrock, if anybody can refine crude oil into gasoline it's you baby.
Edit. I didn't realize this was 3 years old. Have you made any gasoline or just stuck to producing gas?
@@BawkBawkBawk666 i would imagine he probably still doesn't understand why octane is prized over heptane, ethanol, or other hydrocarbons for car fuel
@@Farvadude do you hear that? I think that's the sound of the joke flying over your head
My poppa worked on a Texas rig most his life. When I was born he wanted to name me Diesel, but my momma said she wasn't gonna raise no damn fuel as a son. So, my name's Gilbert.
Diesel is actual person name unlike petrol.
Possibly the most South sounding comment I've ever read on YT.
*best dad joke of the week*
@@ajaysarathythee jajaja wtf that was funny 😂
My older brother got the nick name gassy. That’s as much as I’ll say.
On road trips to West Virignia, we'd pass by a refinery on I-64 near the Kentucky line. Numbers don't do these places justice; they really are massive engineering masterpieces.
Just a small correction, the drilling fluid's main purpose is to actually equalise the borehole pressure and formation pressure. Otherwise it will collapse and a blowout is possible. Its secondary purpose is to cool the bit and carry cuttings etc...
They forgot to mention who comes in after the derricks finish drilling...
Us frac hands!
@@rubencollazo8857 they also forgot the vac truck guys
@@rubencollazo8857 shut up worm. Takes 12 frac hands to hammer one union. 1 hammers 11 watch
And the loading coupler as well
Don’t forget about the greasy well testers lol.
Thank you very much! Gas prices been too high recently. I needed an alternative to buying gas. Gonna start making my own now thanks to this video.
Shit dude, that's amaizing. How did you do it?
@@imt3206 he's probably rofling
Fill up your car on Everclear
I love how they put subtitles on the Texan guy 🤣
Because background noise?
Don't laugh too hard at the man required to ride a bicycle around the plant, he makes $75,000 USD a year and is in great shape.
Yea besides, he can't drive there or he'll blow the place up.
Hes doing something wrong if hes only making 75k a year.
stlskin yeah he should be double that
@@dickJohnsonpeter They're riding bikes to save time. Vehicles are driven in refineries ,too. Plenty of shit going on to cause explosions, driving not really one of them.
75??? Lol na he makes way more then that
This video is not "how to make petrol or gas from crude oil" it is instead a light overview of the oil industry.
An love how they fail to mention only a very small percent of Texas oil is actually turned into "Petrol" or Gasoline as we call it. Because it is one of the hardest to refine.
This is soooooo true!!!! Still a good vid though.
About half way thru I noticed this and scrolled down to find I'm not the only one who noticed.
Good point. Petrol and diesel are a combination of various products produced by the refining process. These are stored in the Tank Farm until blended by a "blender" to the required specifications. This is where the Lab comes in by testing and adjusting the blends to meet the requirements. Petrol is a mixture of motor spirits and gases "Butane" and diesel is a mixture of gas oils and kerosenes. Additives are added to improve flow, energy produced and local emission laws.
Mark Herndon
Usually us Brits make fun of Americans for lack of knowledge in some areas and pronunciation and spellings...
But this guy makes me feel ashamed to be British.
It’s a nice video for 10 year olds (or a complex one for him).
And I cringed every time he pronounced Houston so badly!
It’s not like it’s some small village in Montana.
Yes, we have Euston station in London and it probably makes more sense to spell it like that but who cares? When in Rome/Houston(we have a problem...)
Just amazing the amount of engineering and machinery involved in this process. However, in the same breath, how vulnerable these facilities are to weather and other dangerous actions. It seems like so many eggs are in one basket when it comes to something that is critical to our basic needs.
True.
Kinda neat seeing this. When I was 19-20 yrs old, worked as inspector of non-destructive testing at ARCO pipe division just outside Baytown. Also got to work with Hughes Tool Co., Schumberger, Oxy, IDF, SEDCO, Dresser, and a few others. Wonderful time, just before OPEC dropped price of oil to $8 a barrel. Killed economy in Houston so I joined military.
One of my buddies was an aircraft NDI inspector during our days in the Marine Corps. We were on deployment together in the Far East in 1984. In January we were roasting our asses off in the Philippines... a month later in South Korea where it was snowing. We lived, ate and showered in tents. Good Times.😄
L pl
"something something free market regulates itself"
and now with oil going in the opposite direction its going to not only kill the economy but its going to kill people and entire industries and maybe the country itself
OPEC ain't cool.
Amazing to think all this different fuel types come from one source
And plastic.. rubber .. latex.. asphalt... if it's not wood ,glass , cotton, stone or metal. It came from crude oil.
@@dontibbitts9490 ^this
Yep. Dead algae. Too bad that burning so much of it will result in full societal collapse in a few decades.
@@mehg8407 you can cry about It or Improvise Adapt Overcome
@@mehg8407 No it won't. Hey AOC called she wants her tin foil hat back.
Watching this in 2022 while grimacing at gas prices lmao
I know what Im doing on the weekend....
brewing my own gasoline
It's going to get worse. We are in the middle of the great reset.
Same
mumbling Joe Hiden " I did that " 😵😵🤣
@@goobermcboogerballs1420 💯💯👍
I used to love sitting in m bed at night looking at these refineries when I was little. And the chemical plants.
Ever been to Pasadena, TX ? Stink-a-dena!
That extraordinary citadel of gleaming metal used to be in my backyard. It was awesome to watch as a kid.
Gl with health problems later
I remember driving by it, along with the CAMERON IRON WORKS that was mentioned in a documentary on RED ADAIR.
When you were a kid… how long ago was that. Health standards have seriously been boosted since.
2:57 it’s amazing to think that Rick is only 29 years old. He got the job out of high school and just look what the hard work has done to him.
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When you use small engines to push mow in town or do work out on a farm or similar, you get to appreciate just how much work gets done for $2.25 +/-
It's a hard days' work when I go through 1 gallon of chainsaw fuel.
I love how the quality control guy working at the oil refinery rides a bike everywhere. Good job at doing your part.
They have to.
@@tacomas9602 I was thinking that. 🤔
And thank you ☺️
It's for safety reasons I'd guess.
@@revenevan11 You mean that they can't bump into a pipe?
@@PySnek it’s more for limiting ignition sources inside the process units and utilizing a lighter and more controllable vehicle in those critical areas. The plants are so big that bicycles are an absolute necessity when it comes to reducing worker fatigue and saving time.
Bumping into piping doesn’t really ever happen unless the operator really breaks the rules and deviates off the designated pathway. Most of the process units have pathways large enough for two pickups to drive though side by side, but you will never see them in there unless during a shutdown and only to deliver material. And even then that scenario is unlikely. So bicycles are absolutely a safer method of transportation inside these facilities even though there are potential hazards to their use like anything else. The incident frequency of just walking inside these facilities would likely be surprising to you.
It’s amazing how much oil production has grown in Texas since this video was made - more than 5.5 times - from 900,000bpd to 5 million just before the 2020 Coronacrash event.
**FARTS LOUD AF**
Do anyone know what the name of the song starting at 8:48 is?
Texas is a powerhouse.
With 10 billion left. Pumping out 5 Millon per day. If my math is right. About 5.5 years till it's exhausted! Of course you said that was before covid crash. But still don't look like much left
@@rogercarrico4975 oil is always about to run out.
I’ve been in the Permian Basin for over 20 years and we’ve never EVER once called a pump jack or a pumping unit a “nodding donkey”
I was in the permian basin for 6 months and it was the longest ten years of my life! No thanks!
@@bctruck l, was born here 57 years ago, glad your gone. Anyone else doesn't like it here, the same road brought you here can take you back. I didn't move to your home and talk crap about it. Proud to be US citizen Proud to be a Texan at least 4 gen. on both sides and Proud to be from W.TX.
likely a foreign term then
They always remind me of grass hoppers.
Are you in Texas? If not that's why.
Assuming that the price of gas (petrol) fluctuates evenly with the price of crude oil, the price of gas pays for 87% of the cost of the crude. This doesn't include the labor and refining costs, but considering how many other products come from crude oil (diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, plastics, asphalt, lubricating oils, etc), it's safe to assume that the operating costs are covered dozens of times over.
Judging by the huge profits generated, this proves that the consortium of oil producers conspire to keep the prices inflated.
I’m just enthralled seeing Kryten doing this presentation
I work in this industry and it's quite fascinating !
Nine years later and this still is a great source of information about this mysterious process.
Send me a email on sussanofori@gmail.com if you don`t mind discuss something
For the first time I had a complete process understanding of crude oil to Petrol conversion in detail. 👍🏻👍🏻
Well done : interestingly narrated, clearly explained, good video. Thanks !
It’s a fascinating technology. When I’m out quail hunting in New Mexico with my shorthair pointers, I often stop at a production site and look around. Also here in Wyoming, out in my chukar hunting territory there are some wells. I appreciate what petroleum has done to make life better. The next step is nuclear though. LFTR and then Fusion
I admire that lifestyle. From Chicago here and what you talk about might as well be considered the same as "big game hunts" in Africa that kill apex predators, by all the crybaby liberals. It's a shame here now that just being a man is considered toxic, and if you believe that hunting for your own food, living off the land, and knowing how to survive and provide for your family is an important/great skill set up have, and some of these liberal, "mostly" peaceful groups find out, they will do everything they can to disrupt, disturb, and cause ruin to you and your family. Thank God I joined the Marine Corps right after high school and I learned I wasn't some strange, toxic person for thinking that way. Good luck on your hunting trips and stay safe!
@@michaelmorrison4201 ...Do all my "hunting" at the Kroger Store, dipshit.
Time for you to grow up.....
@@michaelmorrison4201 Liberals are stupid. Share this truth with your friends..
Listen man I believe its not that simple because i dont want a nuclear car. I looked at investing into uranium mines but listen bro I already dont have the best lungs or eyes and last thing i need is to be breathing in uranium dust pointing a counter at an unknown smufhe in the wall and my eyeballs take in a huge blast of radiation from some unknown material. Its hard to find people willing to dig up uranium because of the dust. Its worth getting some fpr specific purposes. For example, you wamt a few reators strategically placed and closely monitored. Some nuclear bombs that work real good just incase. Some other applications. But i dont think "the next step" is uranium. The next step is D) all of the above. Uranium has uses but you cant just tell me uranium is the next step when the plastic bag i put my giant sliced up sandwhich into cant be made from uranium. Uranium is an element. Petroleum cant replace uranium and uranium isnt replacing it either. You crazy with this "next step" im in new mexico and this place digs uranium, mines coal, and pumps crude all at the same time and its a dry wasteland of sadness with chapped lips and ghost towns becsuse theyres nothin man its sand is all you got. You cant pan for gold in sand bro. Well you can but its going to be a lot of sand. We are lucky they found any coal at all here 😂 where the hell did all the sane come from? What else do we do? Maybe make glass?
I learned so much in this video I'm gonna build a refinery in my backyard now
2:14 I've never seen any spider that moves as cool as that. Maybe it's just the way the music comes on at the right time but he just seems so... dank.
it smells like rotten eggs but it also smells like money
Ha! That is Robert Llewellyn, host of RUclips's most famous show about electric vehicles and renewable energy.
That's what I was thinking. He's always so smug about it too.
@Ronald Brown maybe in US and it doesn`t surprise me....but no need to talk like that is a fact all over the world...
@Ronald 240Bravo wrong
He's also Kryton, the robot in the TV series, Red Dwarf
@Ronald 240Bravo you're full of shit , about 60% of power is generated by coal and gas in the usa .
you are a liar to omit that hydro and nuclear account for 40% with biomass, wind, geothermal, and solar power helping . and the states where EV's are used its PRIMARILY the other sources ,
so fuck yourself and your silly little "can't live without burning oil" delusion
Thanks RUclips reccomedations. Now I won't run out of petrol during the current shortage
There is no mention of catalytic cracking which is a key refinery technique that allows the ratio of different fuels (gasoline and diesel for example) to be adjusted to match demand.
I’m sooooo speechless with this super big refinery and with the great way of the process of the crude this awesome the way human do the good things
Dude that's nice my brother worked as a contractor welder for Exxon he told me it's good work just got to watch and plan ahead before doing anything in there
My dad use to work for the oil company around west TX years ago. He still has a drill bit. It's a heavy peace of metal.
I used to make those bits. Both the tri-cone and 1-piece PCD types.
@@joelmacdonald6994 I. I
In my military career as an engineer, I tested everything from water, fuel and oil. It made life interesting.
Like taste tested?
@@adilfhortler1398 gulping crude oil in the military is probably the most american thing i've done today
Tell more!
The presenter now runs one of the biggest electric car channels on YT!
Fully charged show.
wow this is pretty complicated process. some really smart people are involved in this.
+Mazxlol Well, a chemical engineer knows this stuff, or a chemist knows this stuff..
this is easy. i do it all the time
+anoname smh
this is one of my tasks for school XD
we have to find out how does crude oil become fuel its sooo boring
@@underswappapyrustheskeleto3427 A good place to start your research is distillation (fractional distillation to be more specific) and how does molecular weight, structure, and intermolecular forces play a role in the boiling point of compounds.
this can become very interesting because this can be applied to every chemical!
Video forgot the MOST IMPORTANT part: adding at least 10% ethanol to completely ruin the gasoline while making midwest farming cooperatives richer.
SunriseLAW ye it ruins old engines that weren’t designed for it
How else will you kill two birds with one stone 1)Increase octane rating of gas without adding lead 2) Make midwest farming corporate filthy rich.
@@lemonflavorclorox7389 ..octane rating is increased by adding more octane to gasoline (which is mostly heptane) . Anti-knock is different. I am completely against the program but one side benefit is concentrated protein animal feed.
@@SunriseLAW From what I can find online "Adding ethanol to gasoline in lower percentages, such as 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline (E10), reduces carbon monoxide emissions from the gasoline and improves fuel octane". More the octane, less the knock, which is an unintended early combustion of gas and air mixture.
That said, yes, I 100% agree with you; such programs are often the result of successful lobbying to make the corps wealthy. They almost always never consider alternatives in such cases.
When Oregon went to oxygenated fuel (10% ethanol) I LOST FIFTEEN PERCENT OF MY FUEL ECONOMY. Brilliant, folks.
It’s kind of surreal watching this host do this video. He’s actually a huge EV proponent doing a tone of RUclips videos on the subject.
1:10 really glad all those great Texans (respect!) Been drilling for oil there in Texas since late 1880's.
*I'd like to point out that everyone in Penn's Wood, (Pennsylvania) knows well that in Titusville, PA, we were successfully drilling since August 1859. By 1862 it was quite a commercial operation.*
Good video.
Many Years ago I lived in a town called Ashland, Kentucky.
Home of Ashland Oil. Valvoline was one of theirs.
The refinery is No Joke. It is a HUGE Complex.
It is without a dought its own little city.
The smell from the Refinery and the 10 tracks of Coal Trains was crazy.
So glad I don't live there anymore.
Years ago, I worked for a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, OK. One day, with time on my hands, I went to PP's corporate office downtown. On the massive first floor, they had a veritable museum of all sorts of petroleum harvesting equipment on display. To me, the most impressive part of the display was the HUNDREDS of examples of finished products derived from crude oil. Interestingly, while 'fuels' were the biggest part of it, I learned many THOUSANDS of items are made from petroleum by-products. So, if all you Lefties want to get rid of 'fossil fuel' harvesting, you better get ready to ALSO say goodbye to products such as perfume, hair dye, cosmetics, hand lotion, VASELINE, toothpaste, deodorant, panty hose, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and EVERYTHING made of plastic.
We need the oil we got to last man. If we run out im afraid a luthium or cobalt battery just aint gonna cut it. These semis need a pumpable liquid fuel one way or another. You got 2 guys sleeping in shifts going from LA to New York city to miami and then san diego. Unless you got a magic battery its going to suck to charge that joint
Ironically, this dude now has his own electric car channel here on youtube. It's called 'fully charged'.
Kryten has his own RUclips channel !!!!
Thanks, i didn't know that.
Still takes oil to make an electric car and to provide all of the lubricants to keep it going.
Sell out
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Sell out = successful.
@daAnder71 its like 1000 spoons when all youve got is a knife
Grew up with a pumping jack just off in the horizon on the of a hill near my house, I could always see it working away no matter how old I got
When people were having their crude oil from their shares delivered to their homes during the 1st lockdown, a large number were clueless as to what to do, like a lot of people who buy shares, etc, nowadays. However, they can siphon it off by pouring oil into a reservoir on heat, have an umbrella over that to catch the evaporating liquid, and all that sitting over a basin to collect the dripping liquid from the umbrella. Once the oil is 40C or 50C, lubricants for bike maintenance will evaporate solely from the rest of the oil. Store the lubricant if you want it. Then slowly raise the temp until the next product separates from the oil. I think gasoline and diesel separates at around 250C each. Things like petroleum jelly, and food/medicines separates at temps in between. You’re gonna need something more sophisticated to reach the higher temps. You can then sell your stores, and always make a profit at any price if you do all the work in between, or sell your barrel of crude for half the price, at best.
This is my favorite way to instantly get cancer
That man said that oil is the lifeblood of America 11 years ago; and oil is the lifeblood of America in 2022;and will the lifeblood of America; and the rest of the world for the foreseeable future!
@10:38 tell me she wasn’t forced to say that by PR 😂 her face says it all and I love it
Very nice...description is easy to understand...very well articulated.
99% of people who recognise the presenter: “Hey look it’s Robert Llewellyn from fully charged”
1% of people who recognise the presenter: “Hey look it’s Kryten from Red Dwarf”
haha it is too! never would have picked that
Yep, Red Dwarf. Lol
I don't know what fully charged is? Red dwarf yes... Scrapheap challenge yes
Red Dwarf/Junkyard Wars
I lived in Cleveland in the 60's and a block from Sohio Refinery #2. The huge cracking (separation) tower was a well remembered sight. John D. Rockefeller owned most of the property around my house.
Good ol ExxonMobil. I worked in that plant for years as a contractor. 6:20 is heading south on San Jacinto street just north of west street, with OMCC to the left.
I miss Scrapheap Challenge (Junkyard Wars to us kids in the States).
Meee tooo, I wanted to have my crew and I on that show,I applied 3 times,guess they didn't really want a group of truly Mechanical gifted people on the show.
VERY basic explanation of the process. I was hoping for more details. Example: what are those heat exchangers there for?
"To separate the carbon atoms you'll need one heck of a chemistry set" - goes on to show you just boil it and catch the vapor at different elevations. kek
Mike Brice they also mentioned octane issues and engine knocking. They put additives in the fuel as well. And then it’s further mixed with ethanol.
It's edgy and makes you more believable because you said "cucks".
It was a treat to see the "knocking engine machine" being used. That little gem was a big reason why we won ww2. higher octane fuel that was developed for our aircraft b/c of the "knocking engine machine"
That is actually have a lot of chemical processes work. Thanks a lot of chemistry experiments involved boiling chemicals and condensing the vapors. So yes it is a big chemistry set.
There's actually a bit more to it than merely heating & catching vapors. There are catalytic elements involved, plus a whole lot of sciencey stuff the narrator doesn't go into, because it'd be kinda boring to the average layman.
Good video, thanks. Well done. I learned a few things. 1 suggestion: you could mention the metals used to pump gas in and out of trucks are not spark-producing. I think it's magnesium.
I think bronze is often used too.
I don't know about that but I can tell you the metal couplers on the fuel hoses are aluminum. There is also a grounding wire embedded in the hose itself. At least that's how it is on my rig.
Awesome vid,great commentary and videography and editing thankyou I always wondered how they made fuels from crude and the numbers and types of fuel from each barrel of crude is surprising,Best wishes to you all, from, Auckland, New Zealand. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🤣✅🙂🙂🙂😉😉
And to think NASA employed Roughnecks for that mission to Space and to save the Earth andblow up that Asteroid that time
With Aerosmith's help,too
RIP Harry S. Stamper
I remember that Documentary. I cheered when Bruce Willis died in it.
LOL! Pennsylvania grade crude (also found in Western NY) isn't sticky, isn't black, and doesn't smell like rotten eggs. And you don't have to drill two miles deep to get it. Low sulfur, high in lubricants. Actually smells kind of pleasant and familiar if you grew up with it. Oh, and you don't really need that powered wrench- I've done it the hard way, with two HUGE wrenches that it takes a strong man to pick up, and a chain binder to tighten or loosen the pipe and/or tools.
Yeah- for low-rpm, low-temperature applications, Quaker State and Pennzoil type oils were just about perfect. Actually, for each barrel of oil, you get X gallons of diesel, Y gallons of gasoline, Z gallons of lubricants, etc. The different grades of crude have different mixes. For example, Venezuelan crude has almost no gasoline, and to get it takes expensive advanced refining.
This tv host fucking LOVES the oil industry. I hope theyre happy together
What a great and educational explanation this is!
They skipped over a lot of steps in this video. Casing, cement, toe prep, plug & perf, and hydraulic fracturing all come before production... especially in the Permian Basin. And in modern day a lot of operators are using a wide variety of artificial lift systems (example used in this video is a pump jack). You also have plunger pumps, gas lift, electronic submersible pumps, etc.
So cool to see Robert Llewellyn's early work. He still sounds exactly the same!
159 L. crude produces 73 L. Petrol 35 L. Diesel 20 L. Jet fuel & heavy fuel oil 6 L. Propane 34 L. Other products (10:06)
I was thinking that too, my guess is that they add other things to the other by products, like ethanol to the petrol, and some more solid stuff to the asphalt, that or some of the byproducts simply take up more room than they do when theyre dissolved into the crude.
that baytown place is straight outta Mad Max, what an amazing and terrifying place! us humans are insane.
Speaking of terrifying places, looks of Kuwait oil files. It’ll hell on earth when it happened
Not sure about Mad Max but the slums of Detroit were filmed here for Robocop 2 :)
Wow I live right next to this refinery in Baytown Texas. never thought my small suburb town would be that important lol
I laughed when he sais 770 round trips to the moon. Then, I laughed HARDER when he said a pickup would only make it half way.
Trainfan2010
Trainfan1055 yes true but in 4 wheel drive uses more to get 1 way so 770 round trips would be maybe 524? He made an error and also going 60mph. Never said that either.
Jibba Ellie today looking at the oil plants 27,2018 the time is good 12:59 PM June
#flatearth
no pun intended...
Well, that’s alarming! If they “...pump out 900 thousand barrels every day” and there’s only 10 billion barrels left, then it’ll ALL be gone in a mere 30 years (within a single generation).
And this was made in 2010, 22 years to go.
There is much more than 10 billion barrels. BP’s estimate is roughly 1,690 billion barrels that would be economically feasible to obtain using today’s technology.
thats why we are mostly buying oil from different country ( mild east)
You would have to add an ‘estimated new discoveries’ forecast to that equation, if they are calculating based on verified deposits only.
Crude oil is constantly being produced underground. It is by no means finite.
I’m from where the Lucas gusher took place and Exxon among other refineries are in my backyard I love the industry and how it all works
Every time I see a pumping jack, I'm always reminded of the music video as well as the song *Rock* *The* *Casbah* by *The* *Clash*.
I'm always reminded of the opening to A Perfect Circle's Counting Bodies Like Sheep
The jet pilots wailed…
One of the Clash's best tracks as well as London Calling
"It's like a big family out here on this rig"
Where?
"Right here"
This video being reccomended now for anyone looking to make home brewed gasoline to save money ⛽️
my dad works at a refinery and its actually so awesome there. its so big they have their own streets with names and their own fire department that is just for the refinery. he also showed me a tank they still use that is from the nazis it even has swastikas on it. but they still use it because its useful its just interesting to see. (keep in mind this is in the US at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California
a tank? like a holding tank or like a boom boom tank
@@johnkiker6458 no like a tank that holds a liquid or gas or something
Nazi memorabilia is a tough game because on one hand its interestong history, in the other hand you know yohr firetruck surely wasnt being used to extinquish burning jews 😬
The way he pushed the lamp aside is a low blow to electric powered vehicles
@@dfwdamon How much COAL is burned to harvest, transport and refine oil?
@@dfwdamon none in the UK as all coal power plants have been shut down. In Scotland the entire electricity demand is supplied by wind turbines.
Patterson uti drilling, I worked floorhand in south Texas on rig 533, 100 ad 539, from 2002 to 2009.
The U.S. is going to invade this video
They're going to invade Texas for having said they had weapons of mass destruction
Annexation is the worst thing that Texas ever did.
Like the hundreds of other nations have done for other things? Like the Brit's with their trade routes? Like Germany did to Russia? Like Japan did with China? .. America does it 1 time and ya'all talk shit. mean while Europe has been doing it for thousands of years for less things in value then crude oil.
Merica
Nope
I worked in refineries for years all of them in the bay area...I didn't know how they made gas..... didn't really care....I'm a ua 342 welder...if you asked how it was made you'd probably get fired. I was at Shell in 89 when the big earthquake hit. Nothing happened to the refinery...The trucks were rocking back and forth and the colums were swaying.
Do you still work in the Bay Area refineries?
''...and grimace at the cost of your fuel...''
You sweet, sweet summer child...
There's no friction in space so why would you have to refuel half way if you were driving to the moon in a 4x4?
So why does diesel cost more when it takes the same energy to make gas? Try and explain that to me. I've been hauling since 1981
Joeylawn36111 Bingo, sir. Nice facts. 🇺🇸😎🇮🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵🇨🇦
They figured its cheapter to make diesel fuel and finally jacked the price to screw us over.
I love the smell of both gasoline & diesel fuel. It's a rather amazing discovery. Also the human accomplishment of the combustion engine. Really neat stuff. Power from harnessing fire! Just think about it......
"...we'll this is the future and oil is still the lifeblood..."
Yeah this is 2021 and oil is still very much relevant.
I’m from 2034 and I can tell you it’s not relevant anymore
9:37 I like how Derrick is doing his part to reduce his carbon footprint.
Started playing factorio and now RUclips is recommending me this
No one ever mentions the cracking process or re-boilers.
Missed plenty of shit,not enough time. Worked in refineries as x-ray contractor, enjoyed seeing guys riding around in ' coker ' coveralls
Fracking?
@@jaxsun72 No, cracking is a process of breaking down molecules of crude for different products
You dont need no crackers to make gasoline and reboiler is part of the distllation column
@@mtksbctk I wish more things would mention them though, it's an important step of further refining gasoline to usable levels for car engines and such. I want the detailed explanations!
Just remember petrol only works on the left side of the road and gas works only on the right side of the road. Makes passing difficult. LOL
Correct on the right, indubitably on the left
@Drive YT Brand I prefer the center hand drive
"Black gold, Texas tea" reminds me of Beavis and butthead when they hit the septic tank drilling for oil
"Texas is home of oil industry"
Alaska "am I a joke to you?"
north dakota actually over took texas end of last year
Prior to 2012 Texas was arguably a high-end producer of Crude.
…Kern county has more oil than Texas and Saudi Arabia
@@mechanicman8687 Do you mean in terms of reserves? What are you referring to? California is producing a fraction of the oil Texas is producing
@@ryanmayer4112
Underneath Maricopa is said to be one of the largest oil reserves on earth…thousands of tiny pumps
I miss the good old days when you could get gas for less than 75 cents per gallon, a couple bucks let you cruise around with no worries in the world. Now it's like buying a bottle of jack daniels every time you put gas in your car.
Felt in love with black gold after watching this video
British, Australians, Irish (Maybe) = Petrol
North Americans = Gasoline/Fuel
Canada = Petrol/Fuel (it Varies, because some are French/British or Scottish etc)
Cars also run on Diesel. Also known as fuel oil.
I cant wait for my futuristic fliwer powered vehicle
he now has a youtube channel on electric vehicles
159 litres of crude oil produces 168 litres of products..........Clever stuff!!!
Lol! He's not saying that it has 168 litres within the 159 litres. I would think making things like asphalt you'd probably have to add things during the "production" process!
I love when RUclips commenters say things to insult other's intelligence and end up proving their own intelligence.
I'm not a petroleum engineer, but I think I know the answer to this. What you have to consider is the densities of the different fluids that come out of the refining process. The question isn't how many liters go in and come out of the process, and are these volumes equal. The question is how much mass goes in and how much mass comes out. The mass going in and out should be the same. So if 100 Kg of dense crude go in, and 100 Kg of various distilled products comes out then everything makes sense. But what can happen is that the fluids that come out will be much less dense than the crude and so you end up with a larger volume. I'll give you an example. Add a cup of honey to a liter of water. At first it will displace the water and increase the volume in the glass by 1 cup. But then as the honey dissolves into the water the volume will reduce and the glass of honey water will have a higher density than either honey or water alone. If you were to measure the volume of that honey water solution, and then distill the liquid and measure the volume of the honey and the water separately, you would see that more volume came out than went in to the distiller. It is the same principal. Mass in = Mass out
flowers and smiles LMAO, that's better then hopes and dreams ;P
What about thoughts and prayers?
Fnord Fnordington nows your chance to make a difference. If you could find alternative fuels, you’d become wealthy like these people that invested their money on a risk. You could call it ‘keyboard warrior alternative fuels’. I even helped you with the name of your new company. 🇺🇸😎🇮🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵🇨🇦. Vote for Trump. 2020
Baytown is a beautiful sight! I wouldn’t mind moving nearby if I could find a reasonably priced home
3 AM picking boogers...watching petroleum video.
well "HOW IT WORKS: Aircraft Flush Riveting" got me here...so...might as well watch that...=)
And what's even worse...commenting on them;)
Anyone else here because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Dunno just kinda felt like a natural balance to documentaries about nukes.
Me! Me!!!!
Robert from the Fully charged channel looks very young in this.
I thought I recognized him haha