Not ALL crude oil is the same. Here are just 4 different types!

[@houstonmuseum]

Any oil workers hanging out in the comments? Got any cool stories from the field or lab? Let 'er rip!

[@nagualdesign]

"Less than zero point one percent" is not written *.

[@danieldeanharrison]

Where’s the Canadian oil?!?!? Jeez Louise we’re giving ya majority of our oil. Piping them thru to your ports but you have no examples?? I wanna talk about some cool stories but ya got none of our oil on display to show off!

[@houstonmuseum]

@danieldeanharrison There are a virtually endless myriad of sources...nit enough square footage to show ALL of them! Though that would be awesome...

[@richb1576]

Who decides if the oil is sweet or sour? Is that even a job. Oil taster?

[@teh-maxh]

It was once (well, it was part of a job). Now it's just chemical analysis.

[@jimbotron70]

Once, in ancient times, doctors used to taste... pee.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Yes, in the early days of petroleum use they'd taste a small amount of the oil. The more Sulphur in the oil, the more sour it would taste.

[@nerakzeuqzalev]

The sommoilers 😂😂😂

[@markburton5292]

sweet or sour for crude oil is based on the sulfur content general oil with 1% or less is designated as sweet and over 1 percent as sour

[@danceswithpaperhands6221]

I'll take 32 grams of indica Burmese Kalewa, please! ....oh wrong kinda video.

[@Aaron-og2wx]

I can't decide? They all sound delicious!

[@kennethflorek8532]

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Crude oil is sweet, and so are you.

[@terrenceseverino493]

Bro fr😂

[@roblox4life975]

The American government has saved this video in their favourites list

[@philborer877]

I have a story.... I was in the oil fields in North Dakota and I watched as the guys on the rig pulled the pipes out the back flow of liquid chemicals being pumped in the ground completely. Doused drenched the guys on the rig. Toxic substances all over the area all over people that made me sick. I saw a thousand pound pipe fly into the air from the pressure of the rig and flop like a whip back and forth for about 10 seconds. Luckily nobody was in the way or they would have been dead. Those are your sweet stories from the oil. Rigs. The contamination of the earth, the dangers the workers faced. I didn't even work on the Riggs long and I saw that s..t.

[@alanbiancardi2531]

Not everyone has the balls to do this work. Glad you left. You would be in the way of the real men working.

[@user-qx3lm4vw6e]

Don't forget Southwest Wyoming Sweet, Great Basin Black Wax, Sigurd Sweet, and Tonipaw Vacuum Gas Oil. That VGO is really nasty, you have to sample it with Stainless Steel cans.

[@ericl452]

Fun fact. Most of the elemental sulfer in the US comes from the processing of crude oil when it is removed during the refining process. The sulfer is used to produce sulfuric acid and other products.

[@porcupineracer2]

Was this video made by an autobot?

[@houstonmuseum]

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[@colletteprops8708]

But wait...why are you TASTING it?!😮

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Because it's 1895 and how sour the oil tasted was a really easy way to determine the Sulphur content?

[@ronaldkulas5748]

Oil from North Dakota is as light as kerosene.

[@johnbroker327]

Man that's some Swweeet oil! Black Gold Texas Tea 🎶🎵

[@Undermineded-333]

What color is the kids I drop off at the pool???genius???and how many kids swim daily

[@Timpon_Dorz]

Sweet? As in sugary?

[@President_NotSure]

leave it in the ground

[@bryanjacla1068]

Murica: OIL IS OIL!!!!!

[@bipl8989]

Absolutely not true when crude oil, machine oil , or sunflower, corn, or olive. Wrong on all counts.

[@bipl8989]

Amazing how much people do not know about oil.

[@rogerlimoseth4790]

Sour, sweet, light ,heavy .. are we drinking this? You make it sound like beer comparisons.

[@houstonmuseum]

Now I want to go to a brewery...mmm... But seriously, don't taste petrochemicals. "Sour/Sweet is just how the industry describes sulphur content.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

While I agree nobody should be tasting oil, the Sulphur made the oil taste sour, so it was a reasonably accurate and quick way to assess the Sulphur content.

[@jeorgedavid3239]

Black gold

[@Number6_]

So some oil is cruder than others.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Yes! And this has major consequences for refining oil into other petroleum products. Switching from one source of crude to another can have major consequences on the price of gasoline and diesel vs other products.

[@procrastinator41]

I’ve heard that Libyan crude is the best ?

[@Loralanthalas]

Mother Russia begs to differ.

[@vintagethrifter2114]

​@@LoralanthalasOf course it does, it's Russia. Malaysia has the best.

[@Loralanthalas]

Cool.

[@rickthomas6606]

Forest trunk Rd Canada

[@pqrstsma2011]

who is putting crude oil on their tongues and tasting it, in order to label the samples as 'sweet' and 'sour'????

[@American-Idiot-Campaign-Vlog]

I learned nothing