HOW AN OIL REFINERY WORKS SHELL OIL HISTORIC FILM 71862
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Made in the 1950s by the Shell Oil Company, "Refinery Process" goes behind the scenes at a huge oil refinery to show how crude oil is transformed into finished products. The film uses a combination of animation and live-action to present the story in a simple and entertaining style, how crude oil is separated into major fractions or "cuts". It then describes how complicated molecules are "cracked" into simpler molecules of the lighter, more valuable products by the application of heat and pressure.
This film is one of a series made by Shell as part of its public relations efforts. All the films in the series are well-made and use innovative techniques for their time. The company spent over $1 million dollars in the 1950s -- roughly $10 million in today's world -- on its film library.
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas. Oil refineries are typically large, sprawling industrial complexes with extensive piping running throughout, carrying streams of fluids between large chemical processing units. In many ways, oil refineries use much of the technology of, and can be thought of, as types of chemical plants. The crude oil feedstock has typically been processed by an oil production plant. There is usually an oil depot (tank farm) at or near an oil refinery for the storage of incoming crude oil feedstock as well as bulk liquid products.
An oil refinery is considered an essential part of the downstream side of the petroleum industry.
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Out of all the 3D animated slop explaining refining on RUclips, this by far the most informative and easy to understand.
I love these old films - everything explained in such simple ways. A masterpiece
The narration, the visuals and the playing cards illustration made this video worth at least 1 year courses in petrochemical engineering. The traditional 4-year college curriculum for most majors needs a reform to make learning more accessible, straightforward and affordable. "Cut the rope!"
With the internet these days. Who need collage or universities any more. The only thing collage and universities are good for now days is to get a piece of paper and that's it. There was once a time when getting a higher education actually meant something. Not anymore.
@@appliedengineering4001 Your comment could actually be used as a reason why "collage" is needed now more than ever before in history.
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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!
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.
Brilliant video, they explained things so much better in the old days!
+Andrew Gordon Yeah, I love old educational films.
+Ch0plol ~ When the soundtrack has a xylophone in it, you know its going to be good.
Who knew watching an old video from 50s would score me an interview as an Oil Refinery worker
Pedro De Santiago awesome! did u get the job?
@@pkdesantiago I hope that I can use this Seemingly worthless Ptec degree to the same 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-
I worked in an oil refinery 33 years..hell of a lot of climbing ladders..hauling on huge valve...dangerous conditions...hydroflouric acid..ammonia..chlorine...silicate..flue gas..fuel gas..sampling.. rounds...catastrophic failures of pumps..exchangers..fires..clearing out units for turn arounds...very difficult work..what a life.. death from nitrogen..h2s. Seen it all..smh
Ilived in south east texas for a long time and I moved away. I work at a paper mill now and paper mills are dangerous but I always tell my co workers they don't understand: When something happens with a refinery the whole town has to evacuate.
Refineries in Venezuela are worst jajaja I’d like you had seen actual conditions that they find each other
My daughter was killed on her first day of work when hot oil steam was released into her face.
@@TheEgg185 I'm so sorry.. I've had many injuries..but have made it. My deepest sympathy
Love seeing all the pipes, tubes, gauges, regulators, tanks, cracking chambers, check valves, pressure valves etc etc..
at oil refineries ,
How could anyone thumbs down this video? It is a very well made and the explanation is on point.
Hello, how are you doing?
a tree hugger I s'pose.
This a course that take years of knowledge is explained in effective way in very short. Great job guys, for sharing your knowledge and making the world better.
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.
I've seen films on refining but I like the playing card imagery they use here. . Good way to illustrate it.
I must have seen this film at least five times in grades 6 through 9 in the late 70s & early 80s. I can't get the image of the rising playing cards out of my head. That's pretty much what I have remembered about this film for the last few decades.
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
What a great film. I studied chemical engineering when I was in school. I feel like if they showed us this video - a lot of the concepts would have been really simple to understand the first time around. Thanks for posting.
I think this film was designed for technicians, logistics personnel, and contract tradesmen. Not four year college bound engineering students. Community college and vocational schools teach way less theory than state college, so industry has to "help" their rookies with this technical documentary.
I'm so addicted to videos like this, brilliant explanation.
The 1950s was a marvelous time for educational films produced by Shell Oil and Bell Telephone with its Bell Science series (hosted by Frank Baxter); as I vividly recall as a kid in the mid-1960s watching such films in classes at school (US).
Bell Telephone made a number of excellent films both PR and employee training types. I thoroughly enjoy them.
An easily understood explanation of this process. Timeless.
Straightforward and practical demo of the process at the start of the video. Very good
Wow, I find this video is the best one among all video which are available on youtube
Best documentry Thanks lot👍🙏
I leave this video a smarter man. That was good. I suggest you watch this if you wish to know the basics of making oil into automobile gas.
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.
I’d love to hear any interesting stories/insights from your time working on these.
Man, at first I thought this was going to be a propaganda film, not even five minutes in and I'm glued to the screen.
Fantastic illustrations
Excelent video, this explanation cost for two semesters in petroleum university
It worth to watch this video before starting to learn processes in oil refinery. Every point is explained very well and easy to understand. The language used is also friendly even for non-English-speakers. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, I'm native Spanish speaker but the explanation was friendly for people with Intermediate English skills (I believe even for Begginer English people)
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
This film is still the best explanation of refinery processes.
That process is called fractional distillation or fractionation. Crude oil is heated and then passes through a fractionation column. The products of the fractionation process depends on the temperature where that component starts to separate from the crude oil (Lowest temperature: top). To give a few examples, the precursor for aviation gasoline and jet fuel comes from the distillate that comes from the top of the fractionating column. Asphalt and paraffin wax comes from the bottom part of the column.
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.
Like other commenters have said, very clear and concise explanation of the process. I wonder if it was made later than the 50s, though; the style and presentation seem a little more informal, and the music at 20:06 is "Trade and Commerce" by Johnny Pearson from a 1968 KPM LP "Orchestral Kaleidoscope".
Thanks for explaining were the tunes come from! If you look at the 11:20 the film shows what looks like a ‘69 Pontiac.
@@deltapee9259 I saw that too..
The surface area of 6000 sq ft blew my mind.
I actually felt my mind expand at this point, lol
The best video with the best explanation. Old stays gold.
Thank you for sharing.
fantastic and simple explanation of refinery process
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AHH-Mayzing!
I knew very little detail if any about this process other than crude oil is just distilled into gasoline in a process similar to distillation of pure alcohol into potable beverage alcohol only instead of discarding a 3rd of it , it's all kept and has different purposes
This was a huge eye opener
Thank you for posting !
I was hoping that they would include the coker in the explanation. That is the process where they take the heaviest material out of the crude oil, and make coke, which is used for industrial processes, as well as making anodes for aluminum production.
Damn, this works just like pappy's still!
the reason a eedsw I am ex, gooda
well explained on the basics , superb.
Fantastic film, thanks for posting! It's a wonder these refineries don't end up in huge explosions.
Michael Lang they do explode when not maintained or when knowledge or safety factors is missing. they haven't aloud any. refinerys to be built in the US in over 50 years I believe
That's what I was thinking. All that heat with many tonnes of volatile flammable liquids and gases. It's amazing. Those refineries must be very well managed.
Refinery fires can
Be bad
fantastic video! really explains oil refinement well!
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.
Would love to see one made on oil pipe lines /distribution
Perfect! And that is 50s! Fascinating!
60s ?
İt could have not been better, impeccable.
the old videos explain so much better...
Fascinating, as usual.
*This was soooo Educational!!*
Thank you for keeping this Film on RUclips.
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We take oil for granted!
Thank you for uploading the video! So well explained!
What an incredible video! I thought it was going to be cheesy, but damn, is it good!
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...
Its easy way of understanding O&G process video, who r all not working in O&G plant. thank u - shell & periscopefilm
This is how we need to learn!
Excellent film. Thank you.
So very interesting and understandable ! Thank you
Nice shiny new refinery! I wonder what it looks like now? This does a great job of explaining the whole refining process.
The Shell plant in La Porte, TX looks like it's scheduled for a LOPC sometime soon... They all look awful nowadays though haha; no reason to keep them shiny if they'll be retired by the end of the century.
@Zach Alexander I work at Shell Deer Park and I guarantee they are not shutting down anytime soon. Although you are correct these plants are dulapidated, neglected, and falling apart as we speak. I was wondering if this was actually the cat cracker thats out here now haha. It's all rust now. I've been to the top of that and the crude oil tower. They're tall.
Wendrful , thank you to share the knowledge
Thank you for uploading this film. I seen this in school class two different times and always tried to find it on web.
wow this is sooo good
Excellent! A topic so easily explained.
Super video, very clear message.
😬 cheezy music a must in the process
i feel like im back in school watching lol
Amazing work..guys
anybody else get stoned and watch these? Shits fascinating hahaha
This is nice ! Super
Thank you! Cheers!
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wow, so this is what TV used to be like
Mark Yolktern Actually this was an instructional film, not a TV show.
Wow fascinating and so well explained.
I like the music
Wow.. Brilliant video.. Thanks..
#Awesome 👍👍👍👍 ....ur explanation is mass... Every body can understand very easily..Tnq so much....
Excellent video!
Fascinating.
exllent explanation
very educational video.
At an era where large corporations like Shell had a soul...
Awesome video ! Very well done for the year!!
Well done for any year.
excellent explaination..
That music hook around 6:30 is great.
Wonderful video.
excellent video......thanks for sharing
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Vintage as shizzle! LOVE IT!
Excellent video
Brilliant video.
thank you
It kinda works like my bong 😆👨🎓👨🏫😁
I swear you could get a college degree by just watching these videos
wish they have same method of teaching in near future
this was awesome
Great video (Y)
very good
Useful
Good stuff here
Good stuff
Can you imagine the guys who figured all this stuff out? Not to mention building the equipment to do it. Did you know that it was us Americans who not only figured out how to drill for oil, but came up with the equipment to do so? NOT the Brits, Arabs, Iranians, Russians, Chinese or French, but Americans!
Figuring the stuff out is the easy part. You can probably do it with a small amount and regular chemistry glassware. The hard part comes when you want to make it on an industrial scale with efficiency. That's why chemical engineers and petroleum engineers make more money than chemists.
Yes. The process of the knowledge of crude oil to the practice of the refining process of today is mind boggling. A lot of innovative, motivated, and brilliant minds behind it.
From the 1800s to the 1950s pretty slow I'd say.
chemical engineers. Proudly, I am one of them although work in a different industry
Think of how history would have been different if the Arabs would have figured out how to do their own oil and didn't need the West to do it for them.
16:03 The danger is that if somehow, the catalyst drains out from the reactor when its shut off the hydrocarbons can leak into the regenerator where there is oxygen and can cause massive explosions. Proper maintence of the valves can prevent this.
You mean proper inspection of said valves there’s no set replacement interval on this equipment every refinery has a different design and different design limitations that play into factoring a lifespan for the equipment that’s why Inspections on equipment like this are crucial
Ahh, yes, the - not so - good old times! The retro-grade of this movie, the music, the theatrical speaker, the stop-motion, all is quite endearing. And as things sometimes go, it happened in the last weeks that I wrote a few articles about procedures in the Dangote refinery close to Lagos (for a knowledge platform I am not allowed to mention here) - and I could not have explained it better. I missed the term "naphtha" though, nowadays you do not get "straight run gasoline" from a distilling unit just like that. For explaining the reforming process I would have said a few words about "octane value" and what it means, otherwise it remains pointless - yet the RON became relevant ca. 15 years after this movie was made, so it is a surprise it was mentioned at all.
All in all I agree with other comments: the creators obviously knew their stuff and really really were trying to pass on their knowledge. The stop-motion animation is hopelessly antiquated - and then again: the persons who put these molecule models together (in weeks of work for a few seconds of film) knew what these models actually mean, you can see the toluene molecules and xylene molecules. Modern CGI looks more slick of course, but you can tell often, that their makers do NOT know basic physics. And that the script department and the animation department live different lives and do NOT support each other.
Tip to the hat. Despite the retro-vibe this 70-year-old film can be shown to anyone starting to work at a refinery today. It deserves more likes.
Except it is not 70 years old. As others have pointed out, there is a graphic of a late 1960s car at 11:22 in the section discussing how straight run gasoline does not have sufficient octane rating for a modern car.
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