石油专业英语课件 Part I 1 How it all began!.ppt

Its History and Usefulness:  ★ Tower of Babel, the walls of Ninevah, and Solomon’s temple The pitch and asphalt was used in the mortar that built the Tower of  Babel, the walls of Ninevah, and Solomon’s temple. ★ Egyptians embalmed their dead  It was from “slime pits” near the Dead Sea, that the Egyptians obtained the bitumen they used to embalm their dead.  ★ The Sumerians were using oil-burning lamps in 3000 B.C. ★ The Chinese were digging wells for salt water, sometime after 100 B.C., occasionally these wells also produced natural gas.The Chinese learned  to use IT not only for heating and cooking, but also to pipe through  bamboo tubes and burn to heat the well water to hasten its evaporation. Its History and Usefulness: ★ The Japanese were digging wells in attempts to obtain “burning water,”  By 615 A.D.(also occurring in Burma and India at about the same time). ★ Men were digging shallow wells by hand to obtain oil to light their lamps, along the banks of the Caspian Sea. ★ Kallinikos of Byzantium invented a primitive missile in 671 A.D., which  he called Greek Fire: ? which the Greeks used against their enemies, the Arabs, during the  siege of Constantinople; ? The Greeks also used petroleum in war at sea, pouring it on the water  and igniting it, a fearsome weapon against wooden ships. ★ The legionnaires of ancient Rome won a battle by setting oil-soaked pigs  aflame and driving them into the ranks of the approaching enemy. ★ Gradually, the use of petroleum began to spread across parts of Asia and  Europe. Three Factors Must Be Present For Any New Industry To Come About:  ★ A widely demonstrated need for the product provided, ★ A reliable and economical source of supply, ★ An established market price that would guarantee a returns on an  invest