" OIL - THE INVISIBLE TRAVELER " TRANSPORT OF OIL TO MARKET 1953 SHELL OIL CO. FILM MD10134

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This Shell Film from 1953, "Oil The Invisible Traveler" looks at how petroleum is brought from producing regions to the market. It starts with the challenges of oil transportation, notably that it is a lot harder to transport a liquid. This is followed by a short history of oil transportation including barrels, carts, and floats, and how these eventually evolved into tanker cars on trains, tanker trucks, ocean tankers, and pipelines. Then the US pipeline system is explained as well as how oil is transported in an example case from Texas to New York. It ends with all the benefits that oil products bring to daily life.
0:10 Shell Logo lights up, 0:30 Title “Oil: The Invisible Traveler”, 1:00 Oil rigs in flatlands, mountains, and on the ocean, 1:40 an oil tanker, a tanker train, pipeline system, and tanker trucks driving, 2:09 a car being filled up at a gas station, 2:45 a tanker train driving, 3:02 animation of oil barrels piling up to represent a person’s consumption, 3:30 map of the US with oil producing areas and areas that need the oil most with transportation arrows, 4:15 animation of the difficulties of transporting oil starting with a barrel being shipped by train, 4:50 animation of moving oil from the first oil field to a railroad line by flatboat and by horse and wagon, 5:50 animation of oil flowing freely in an early boat solved by creating a boat with different compartments, 6:35 animation of how railroad carts were changed to improve petroleum transportation, 6:58 animation of the invention of the pipeline and the tank truck, 7:50 map of the US with an animation of petroleum delivery paths, 8:42 animation of how oil moves from rigs to the markets by example of Texas to New York, 10:11 overview of overland pipelines and the start of the oil producing process, 10:59 oil pumping station, 11:21 a pipeline being constructed, 11:31 animation of the US pipeline system encircling the world, 11:59 animation of a “product pipeline” and how it is managed, 12:34 different shots of ocean tankers, 13:00 a tanker being loaded on a dock and then driving off, 13:57 petroleum barges moving down a river, 14:39 overview of oil storage tanks in summer and then in winter, 15:28 train tank cars being loaded with petroleum products, 15:52 tanker trucks being loaded, 16:34 small tanker truck driving down a dirt road, 17:09 summary footage of all the transportation methods shown in the film, 17:24 footage of the benefits of oils including cars driving, farms working, trucks driving, and a plane being fueled, 17:53 a family driving away from a gas station, 18:35 Shell logo appears “The End”
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[@DeTrOiTXX12]

I always enjoy the oil documentaries!

[@Sennmut]

29 cents a gallon! If only!

[@65gtotrips]

Can you imagine ? I grew up in the late 60’s - mid 70’s and before the embargo it was like what 80 cents to a buck twenty five ? I didn’t look it up.

[@dougvanallen2212]

Another great movie in New Jersey we have a few tank farms there’s a pump house in our town

[@paulr7547]

Great video.

[@quantumleap359]

This film was made in 1953. Imagine the absolutely HUGE amount of oil we have used in the last 70 years! It boggles the mind.

[@patrickrancourt4782]

Oh Yeah !!! Oil always Rule's in 2023 like in 1953 Gr8 gr8 educational clip Forever Oil !!!!!

[@manhoot]

I say oils well that ends well.

[@creepingjesus5106]

Oil drink to that!

[@lisasdfwhightechworld9946]

@@creepingjesus5106 Puns are the lowest form of humor. LOL

[@quantumleap359]

Oil vey!

[@4BRVWasaga]

​@@creepingjesus5106it was a good dad joke. You just made it great.

[@kc4cvh]

9:08 This practice made the nation's oil supply vulnerable to attack from submarines during the war.

[@freddypflugbeil6]

That was a nice TV room chair they put on the house front porch

[@dubdaze68]

"Number 4 in a series". How many were there, and are they available?

[@AnaPaulinacom]

Peak-Oil: The current rate for regular Octane fuel is currently at 3.79 per gallon in my area.

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

Are you attack helicopter pilot? Why do you need octane number?

[@genefogarty5395]

The 115 octane I run in my race car is nearly 7 bucks a gallon at the track, lol.

[@65gtotrips]

All before shale and the Canadian sands were tapped.

[@johnsiders7819]

Was something back in the day we were self sufficient with domestic oil production now we are swinging on opec's chain this week gas went up with the new war . Today we had no gas at some local stations people were panic buying !! our self oiling was stopped with Joes second day in office .

[@genefogarty5395]

And we have an estimated five million years worth of petroleum products underground as per the USGS. So why is it so expensive? Can you say POLITICS?

[@scratchdog2216]

Must have been great to eliminate the basement coal bin and ash in the era this film was made.

[@1978garfield]

Do you have the rest of this series? It says this is number 4 in a series. Thanks!

[@RCmack]

Gasoline contained lead back in 1953. Now, all gasoline is unleaded.

[@genefogarty5395]

A sort of lead, tetra ethyl lead. Not exactly safe to chug in 12 oz. portions, but not as dangerous as the element we know as lead. It provided a cushion in exhaust gases to preserve valve seats. Hardened inserts were the simple fix to that problem. Petrochemistry has come a long way as metallurgy has too.

[@edwardd9702]

Wasn't it a knock preventative so that engines could go high compression without preignition destruction.

[@genefogarty5395]

@@edwardd9702 No, we still have unleaded hi octane gasoline that does away with compression induced preignition.

[@calescapee9642]

Appears to be Disney animation.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

"So be sure to pray for salvation at your nearest Church of Oil. The only god currently paying yearly dividends on your investments. All that lead poisoning, cancer talk is a bunch of hooey! What do scientists know?"