Oil production

Oil production - oil industry sub-sector, economic sector, covering exploration, extraction of natural minerals - oil.
Oil production - a complex manufacturing process, which includes exploration, well drilling and repair, cleaning of crude oil from the water, sulfur, wax and more.
Methods of oil production
Development of oil produced by the construction of oil wells and mining method.
On how to extract the well fluid modern methods of oil production are divided into:
Fountain (seep is due to a difference of pressure in the reservoir and the pressure at the wellhead)
gaslift
Booster production, including using different types of pumps:
installation of electric centrifugal pump (ESP)
installation of electric screw pump (UEVN)
installation of downhole sucker rod pump (ShSN)
etc.
The unit cost of production
According to Rosneft, the cost of [specify] oil is 2.57 dollars per barrel.
Story
Oil is known to mankind since ancient times. Excavations on the banks of the Euphrates, the existence of oil field for 6000-4000 years BC. e. At that time it was used as a fuel and oil bitumen - in construction and road building business. Oil has been known and ancient Egypt, where it was used for embalming the dead. Plutarch and Dioscorides mention oil as a fuel to be used in ancient Greece. About 2,000 years ago, it was aware of its deposits in Surakhani near Baku (Azerbaijan). By the 16th century. message refers to the "flammable water - thick" brought from Ukhta to Moscow in Boris Godunov. Despite the fact that, since the 18th century., Isolated attempts to clean oil, yet it has been used almost to the 2nd half of the 19th century. mainly in kind. Oil was paid a lot of attention only after it had been proved in practice, Russia factory Dubinin brothers (from 1823), and in America chemist B. Sillimanite (1855), which can select a kerosene - light oil, such photogenic, has already acquired widespread and is produced from some types of coals and shales. Contributed to this emerged in the mid-19th century. method of oil production by drilling wells instead of wells.
The first well of oil (exploration) industrial process was drilled on the Absheron peninsula in 1847, the first production well was drilled on the river. Kudakov Kuban in 1864. In the U.S., the first well was drilled in 1859.