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BFI synopsis: The use of Dutch pontoon cranes in building perimeter banks during the flooding of the River Trent in 1947.
Explains how well-logging equipment enables the petroleum engineer to obtain evidence of the potential of the oil reservoir.
Speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the official inauguration of Magnus, the UK’s most northerly North Sea oilfield. She commends British engineering and says the world is talking an interest in...
Interactive teaching material with reference capability on permeability theory. Approximately one hour of teaching material.
Shows the hazards involved when fire breaks out at an oil well, and the measures taken to extinguish the fire. Shot in 1951 when fire broke out at a well in Persia.
Technical problems and economics mean that it is often not possible to recover more than half the oil from an underground reservoir. New methods are being explored to recover more oil from proven fields....
BFI synopsis: The Great Hundred Inch Cornish Engine at Kew had its last run in May 1941. It is an example of the engines used for pumping water out of mines in Cornwall.
How oilmen decide where to drill and how the drill works. The old method of siting a well is contrasted with new, more scientific, techniques. The erection of a derrick is shown and the practice of drilling...
Uses graphics, demonstrations and live footage to look at the processes of oil refining: fractional distillation; petrol, kerosene, light oil, gas oil or diesel, lubricating oil, bitumen; detection and...
Looks at the Hamel piplines, the purpose of which was to delivering petrol wherever required, without harbours or ships, on the invasion coast of France during World War 2. The success of this top-secret...
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