Oil Gas
in chemistry, a gas of high illuminating power, obtained by dropping oil on substances heated to redness and collecting the gaseous product.
OKEECHOBEE LAKE sey, was constructed in 1897. Standard Oil subsidiaries soon built a net work of lines reaching from the wells to the coast or to Great Lake cities.
It is estimated that there are now about one hundred thousand miles of pipe lines and feeders in the United States, as the western fields also have extensive pipe line systems. Pipe lines have also been constructed in Russia and Mexico, in Burma, Roumania, and in the Dutch East Indies.
The oil is kept in motion either by gravity or, as is more frequently the case, by high pressure compound pumps.
In some parts of the country where the viscosity of the oil is very high, refilling is used to facilitate the forcing of the oil through the pipe.