Petroleum

Petroleum Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - World Energy Resources Series Erpi announcer CU Oil pouring into vat. Cars & trucks along highway past camera. Chinese men at docks w/ straw hats carrying heavy loads from pole across shoulder - manual labour in developing countries. Petroleum delivery truck out of gas station. Home furnace in cellar. Fuel used in factories. Bulldozer; tractor ploughing; ship at sea in storm; diesel locomotive; American Airlines passenger plane taking off L-R. 09:13:26 Map of US showing active oilfields. Survey crew detonate test charge - shockwaves measured by seismographic equipment - cross-section diagram showing shockwaves being reflected from various strata underground. 09:14:41 Oil derricks; drilling crew at work - CU drill bit - drill pipe lowered into hole & drilling starts. Cross-section diagram of drilling down to oil strata past layer of gas. Derrick replaced by pipes & valves nicknamed a “Christmas tree”. Crude oil stored in barrels waiting for transport to refinery. Oil tanker. Crude oil pipelines & pumping station ext & int. 09:17:24 High pan across oil refinery complex; towers where “fractional distillation” & more modern process of “cracking” take place. Research chemist takes sample from pipe. 09:18:42 Map of world showing how yearly production of petroleum would encircle earth almost four times if put in rail wagons - world petroleum producing fields located - Eastern Hemisphere - Netherlands East Indies, Russia, Romania, Iraq, Iran, oil reserves in Persian Gulf. Western Hemisphere - Caribbean coast of South America, US. VO re unequal distribution - Western Europe dependant on other countries. 09:20:26 Street scene w/ traffic - London? Multi-lane American highway. Heavy gun towed down motorway by truck. Arabs signing oil supply deal (staged). Montage of shots oilfields, refinery, tanker ship; petroleum reserve. (GOOD) Fossil Fuel; Middle East; Politics; Non-sustainable Resources; Heavy Industry; Geology; Economics; Import; Export; Technology; 1940s;