Interesting facts in the oil and gas industry

  • The length of the equator is 20 times smaller than the network of the gas pipeline that our planet is confused with.
  • The gas has neither color nor smell. It adds a substance called odorant – it makes it possible to identify a characteristic odor that allows a person to detect a gas leak in everyday life.
  • Liquid fuel is transported in special tankers, and the longest tanker for gas transportation reaches 345 meters in length.
  • The super gigantic, unique oil deposit is located in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf. Al-Gawar deposit holds 20 billion tons of oil. It was opened immediately after the end of World War II in 1948.
  • In the 19th century, petroleum refineries poured gasoline into an unnecessary product.
  • The first was obtained by drilling ancient Chinese, and it happened in the 4th century BC. They performed in the soil a well depth of 240 m using pipes made of bamboo.