Chemistry in oil production processes (1984)

Panorama of a tank farm for storing petroleum products.

Compressor station on an oil pipeline.

Quote from the document "Main directions of economic and social development of the USSR FOR 1981-1985".

Footage from oil refineries.

Test tubes with chemicals used in the oil industry, against the background of an oil refinery.

Map of the USSR showing enterprises of the NPO SOYUZNEFTEPROMKHIM. Laboratory at VNIPINEFTEPROMKHIM NPO SOYUZNEFTEPROMKHIM. Scientists are working on creating reagents to enhance oil recovery, combat paraffin and inorganic salt deposits, protect oilfield equipment and pipelines from corrosion, and for oil preparation processes.

A meeting of scientists during scientific research.

Alternating footage from different laboratories of the institute.

A cartoon explaining the process of extracting oil from an oil-bearing formation and the use of surface-active substances (SAS) in this process.

An oil pump at the field.

Tank trucks deliver an aqueous solution of surfactants to the field.

Panoramic view of the field.

Laboratory studying the use of weakly concentrated aqueous polymer solutions to enhance oil recovery.

Cartoon explaining the use of polymers in water displacing oil from oil-bearing formations.

Preparing the solution for its introduction into the formation.

Laboratory of the TATNIPINEFT Institute.

Layout of the Romashkinskoye oil field.

Cartoon explaining the use of a rim of concentrated sulfuric acid to enhance oil recovery at the Romashkinskoye field.

Tank trucks with reagents at an oil field.

Layout of special machinery and equipment when pumping reagents into a well.

The method of alternating cycles of pumping sulfuric acid and aromatic hydrocarbons into the formation is used.

Laboratory studies of the use of sulfonated lean absorbent, alkyl sulfate mixture and sulfuric acid.

Sampling oil for analysis.

Samples of calcium, barium and other element deposits on oil production and oil product refining equipment.

A cartoon explaining the use of chemical reagents to remove scale deposits.

A list of inhibitors that are also used to combat salt deposits on equipment.

A cartoon explaining the effect of inhibitors on salt microparticles.

Dosing unit for pumping chemical reagents into the annular space of wells.

Field equipment for oil gathering systems, tubing.

Well equipment.

A cartoon explaining methods for combating asphalt-resinous and paraffin deposits on equipment.

A list of reagents used in such methods.

List of inhibitors that prevent deposits.

Laboratory developing inhibitors.

Inhibitor samples.

Pilot-industrial workshop for the production of corrosion inhibitors that protect equipment from chemical and electrochemical corrosion.

Inhibitor samples.

Compressor station equipment.

Control and monitoring panel.

Tanks for storing chemical reagents.

Construction of specialized storage bases, centralized production, reception and shipment of reagents.

Repetition of frames from the film.