Early in my career, I worked as a H2S safety supervisor on drilling and workover rigs. As such, I truly appreciate this upload. Thanks for posting and stay safe.
Great video. It reminds me of my childhood days in eastern Venezuela. My father and uncles worked for a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Co from the 40's to the 70's. As kids we would ride our bikes to the scrap yard where we played. I remember the different drills well as their teeth would always shine! Company vehicles had dual fuel systems: gasoline and LPG. Gas in the 50's was 8 cents per gallon!!!
One of the voices was Smiley Burnette, he was the engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball (train) in the TV programme Petticoat Junction in the 1960s. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
My Grandpa took me out to a field one time. I had no idea where we were. I asked him what we were doing out there. My Grandpa said I wanna show you something. I said ok. We got out of his pickup I walked with him the rest of the way into this field. There stood what I thought was an old oil rig. Just how old I was not sure. The rig was made of wood. Stood there in wander. My grandfather must of seen the wheels turning in my head lol. He asked what do you think that is? Nervous I said an oil rig? He said yes. I asked how did they put the pipe in the ground? He said they used 2 horses. I think that's the oldest oil rig I've ever seen in real life. I think it was the only one left standing. I'll never forget that. My grandfather loved what he did
My grandfather was a union pipeline welder he started in the late 40’s. My dad was a 2nd generation pipeline welder along with his brother and over a dozen other family members were all members of the same union. I am a 3rd generation union pipeline welder with over 25 years of service in our local. I really thought I would be able to finish out my career and retire with a smile but it’s definitely Not looking like it. I hope all the blue haired environmentalists and skumbag lawyers are happy because all they have accomplished is putting honest hard working people out of work, they haven’t changed a thing with the energy companies or saved a single frog in the environment. They have endangered hundreds of thousands of kids education’s and futures. Taken food off of our tables so I hope they feel accomplished. I’m hoping this industry has one big BOOM left because me and thousands just like myself are counting on it.
This says it is part 2. Do you have part 1? I wonder what happened to all the miniatures from this film? Maybe they are safe on someone's train layout.
Great film worked for a perforating company in Alberta in the 60s Then worked ofshore with Sedco in New Zealand ,I believe New PLYMOUTH NZ Was the first find in the wolrd it is still pumping to day ??
The first oil well ever was in Poland. He allowed Rockefeller to have all the info for free because "it wouldn't be right to make money off something so incredibly important" or something like that. Its a really poignant quote that speaks our doom
When was the well drilled in Petrolia, Ontario? (I've been there, by the way.) The first oil well in the USA was 1859, drilled by Edwin Drake in Titusville, PA.
this is not far off the technology that i used when i was in college on the early 1970's and my father provided geologic support from the well planning and the drilling to reach the right target
and i worked on these type of rigs as a roughneck in the 1970's and the technology was not much different from tripping, to fishing, and well control but with the advent of technology, computers, and new designs drilling changed and has continued to change
@4:40 the deepest oil well is said to be 15 Empire State buildings, around 6.6km in vertical depth and today's deepest oil producing wells, by vertical depth (Bertha Rogers No. 1 (Anardarko basin, Oklahoma, U.S.)) is about 10k meters, so the old timers back then, with their inferior metallurgy compared to today, did very very well indeed (pun intended) to dig such deep wells, dig it?
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".... until 15 empire state buildings have been sunk to approach the depth which has been reached by rotary drilling" jeez we really have been committed to avoiding the metric system for a while huh
17:25 “Keep it simple will you? We’re just a couple of oil men from Dallas and well, heh, we’re itching like a hound to give you a uh something you want.”
Well, here in Germany, 3.785 liters (one Gallon) of standard gasoline costs right now €4.73, which are about $5.46. Therefore no reason to complain... ;)
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No ones forcing you to live awash in cheap oil…with all the endless backbreaking labor it saves. Live off the grid. Put your money where your mouth/text is…let’s see your attitude after you churn your butter for six hours.
@@Swybryd-Nation the op is a fool and a communist. Thanks for calling him out. Thinks he is better than everyone cos he hates oil and gas , yet does nothing to change it other than vote for a communist to shut it down and replace it with nothing thus destroying civilization causing mass death and suffering
How? I’m assuming you don’t use oil or the millions of everyday products made from oil? Talk about brainwashed and worshiper of the environmental cult.
To be fair this was made in 1949, when the environmental investigation wasn't as exhaustive and deep as today But indeed, it's an friendly explanation of complex subjects
OK, this seals it. Periscope Film officially has the most interesting content on RUclips.
Early in my career, I worked as a H2S safety supervisor on drilling and workover rigs. As such, I truly appreciate this upload. Thanks for posting and stay safe.
I had 42 years in the oil industry around the world, great times and adventures.
Ok
Thanks for your hard work.
I think of the oil and gas workers every time my heater turns on and whenever I fill up.
@@1978garfield I loved it thanks.
Where u from sir?
@@ali1583 None of your business
Great video. It reminds me of my childhood days in eastern Venezuela. My father and uncles worked for a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Co from the 40's to the 70's. As kids we would ride our bikes to the scrap yard where we played. I remember the different drills well as their teeth would always shine! Company vehicles had dual fuel systems: gasoline and LPG. Gas in the 50's was 8 cents per gallon!!!
These old films are surprisingly informative
And triggering to Greenies.
I worked in oil most of my life. roughneck to production operator. this old film was GREAT!
One of the voices was Smiley Burnette, he was the engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball (train) in the TV programme Petticoat Junction in the 1960s. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
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My Grandpa took me out to a field one time. I had no idea where we were. I asked him what we were doing out there. My Grandpa said I wanna show you something. I said ok. We got out of his pickup I walked with him the rest of the way into this field. There stood what I thought was an old oil rig. Just how old I was not sure. The rig was made of wood. Stood there in wander. My grandfather must of seen the wheels turning in my head lol. He asked what do you think that is? Nervous I said an oil rig? He said yes. I asked how did they put the pipe in the ground? He said they used 2 horses. I think that's the oldest oil rig I've ever seen in real life. I think it was the only one left standing. I'll never forget that. My grandfather loved what he did
My paternal grandfather was a farmer and a former lumberman. He was very proud of the work that he had done when he was a lumberjack.
Beautiful. A treasure of a film.
George Pal's obsession with time, evident in the opening of this film, would again wow us in "The Time Machine" which he directed.
Hey Periscope Film I just wanted to say thank you for sharing these treasures
Such an insightful film, thanks!
My grandfather was a union pipeline welder he started in the late 40’s. My dad was a 2nd generation pipeline welder along with his brother and over a dozen other family members were all members of the same union.
I am a 3rd generation union pipeline welder with over 25 years of service in our local. I really thought I would be able to finish out my career and retire with a smile but it’s definitely Not looking like it.
I hope all the blue haired environmentalists and skumbag lawyers are happy because all they have accomplished is putting honest hard working people out of work, they haven’t changed a thing with the energy companies or saved a single frog in the environment. They have endangered hundreds of thousands of kids education’s and futures. Taken food off of our tables so I hope they feel accomplished.
I’m hoping this industry has one big BOOM left because me and thousands just like myself are counting on it.
Considering the ecological damage climate change causes, i dont think that fossile fuels will have a reneissance.
George Pal, the miniatures master who brought s "When Worlds Collide", and many other special effects movies.
Nn
Amazing stuff. Straight up. I smiled when I saw that he even got the flow directions right when showing the mud and water flow into the string.
Tools and Fossil Fuels are God's Gifts to mankind! ST JAMES 1:17
Masterpiece!! I enjoyed watching.
This says it is part 2.
Do you have part 1?
I wonder what happened to all the miniatures from this film?
Maybe they are safe on someone's train layout.
This is the part one, ruclips.net/video/SouSnXwgsto/видео.html
Howard Hughes made his billions from that drill bit. Hughes Tools.
True, but not the Howard Hughes we normally think of. It was his dad, Howard Robard Hughes Sr.
I want that Chinese model! It’s so cute!
Great film worked for a perforating company in Alberta in the 60s Then worked ofshore with Sedco in New Zealand ,I believe New PLYMOUTH NZ Was the first find in the wolrd it is still pumping to day ??
Oil nostalgia: the first oil well drilling for production was in Patrolia Ontario Canada.....
The first oil well ever was in Poland. He allowed Rockefeller to have all the info for free because "it wouldn't be right to make money off something so incredibly important" or something like that. Its a really poignant quote that speaks our doom
When was the well drilled in Petrolia, Ontario? (I've been there, by the way.)
The first oil well in the USA was 1859, drilled by Edwin Drake in Titusville, PA.
this is not far off the technology that i used when i was in college on the early 1970's
and my father provided geologic support from the well planning and the drilling to reach the right target
and i worked on these type of rigs as a roughneck in the 1970's and the technology was not much different from tripping, to fishing, and well control
but with the advent of technology, computers, and new designs drilling changed and has continued to change
Oil's well that ends well
"Transforming vast areas of worthless land into gainful property." Welcome to the Permian Basin.
I'm almost positive this was filmed mostly in Kern county.
Except for 2:15, of course. Unless the Kern River was dredged. :)
That is the Bakersfield clock tower at 1:34, just before it got damaged in the 1952 earthquake. It sat at Chester and California, IIRC.
@@skydiverclassc2031 I was thinking of Far Hills Field just west of I-5.
@4:40 the deepest oil well is said to be 15 Empire State buildings, around 6.6km in vertical depth and today's deepest oil producing wells, by vertical depth (Bertha Rogers No. 1 (Anardarko basin, Oklahoma, U.S.)) is about 10k meters, so the old timers back then, with their inferior metallurgy compared to today, did very very well indeed (pun intended) to dig such deep wells, dig it?
That's about an hour north of me!!
"They did very well": great, it sounds like some sort of oil speech, in such a sense.
Even south Florida has crude oil natural springs, collier county
Love this channel and history
Now gas is $3 a gallon. Our demand for oil is still going.
Now its 5 dollars
Even in 1949 americans used stadiums and empire state buildings for measurements, impressive how old this meme.
Oil built Tulsa Oklahoma
The asshole of the world, so appropriate!
very good video
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Joe stopped are drilling now we pay near 6 dollars a gallon thanks joe
No he didn't.
we're producing 13 million barrels a day. Same as we were in 2019.
"Drilling a curved hole". If they only knew.
I'm so hooked on phonics
It’d be nice if you could remove the time stamp so the whole screen was visible.
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@@PeriscopeFilm thank you for this explanation.
Among other things, this film is a good illustration of the madness of using a car without an important reason.
Does anyone know what the song is in the middle?! “Drill men drill, all day and night we toil…”etc
These are the companies who want to tell us how to live our life and what love is.
".... until 15 empire state buildings have been sunk to approach the depth which has been reached by rotary drilling" jeez we really have been committed to avoiding the metric system for a while huh
"In a word. We move it into the Refineries". Yup.
17:25 “Keep it simple will you? We’re just a couple of oil men from Dallas and well, heh, we’re itching like a hound to give you a uh something you want.”
You're here to fill us up?
Hydrocarbons !!
So you've stopped using it right?
@@KyleButler82The Earth is awash in energy.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes form.... so filler up !!
I been hypmotized
AKA "Death of a Planet"
I'm an oil man!
That’s exactly what I am. Started as a landman in 1968. Worked mostly North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. Been a producer for 30 years.
$2.05 a Gallon in Ormond Beach today.
Well, here in Germany, 3.785 liters (one Gallon) of standard gasoline costs right now €4.73, which are about $5.46. Therefore no reason to complain... ;)
$US 5.36 per US gallon in New Zealand.
About half of that is tax.
@@Joachim2012 Unless you live in Germany and pay in Euros.
@@kiwitrainguy That sucks.
Not for long , this is temporary . Enjoy it while it lasts.
"... worthless land..."
The video did not explain how a site is chosen.
I assume that's in part one. This film is part two.
there will be goo :)
Oh well
Whale
Oil
Beef
Hooked
Ah, a fellow Irishman!
I spy the owl symbol...ooof. I see you swissie
Drill DRILL
"I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE!"-There Will Be Blood
What's that supposed to mean?
And , Air conditioning !!!!!!
periscope film still has that stupid counter in the middle of the screen in what otherwise would have been an interesting film
Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
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@@PeriscopeFilm fair point, thanx for the reply
Interesting and insightful vid, but that time and frame counter sure is irritating.
ere's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
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hahaha... a million dollar investment
3:30 This is an abomination to both Shinto and Buddhism religions.
And still forced to live in the petroleum paradigm. Ain't nuthin wrong here ma!!
Greta Thurnberg are you watching this?
@@kiwitrainguy She's too busy persecuting farmers who raise GMO crops. Call back later?
No ones forcing you to live awash in cheap oil…with all the endless backbreaking labor it saves. Live off the grid. Put your money where your mouth/text is…let’s see your attitude after you churn your butter for six hours.
@@Swybryd-Nation the op is a fool and a communist. Thanks for calling him out. Thinks he is better than everyone cos he hates oil and gas , yet does nothing to change it other than vote for a communist to shut it down and replace it with nothing thus destroying civilization causing mass death and suffering
the brainwashing is real with this one.
How? I’m assuming you don’t use oil or the millions of everyday products made from oil? Talk about brainwashed and worshiper of the environmental cult.
It's an advertisement for shell. Of course they want you to buy more oil. But at least it's an useful ad
To be fair this was made in 1949, when the environmental investigation wasn't as exhaustive and deep as today
But indeed, it's an friendly explanation of complex subjects
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