Report On Insurance Business in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890, Volume 1

A critical event occurred during mining engineer RomanovskyБЂ™s stay in the United States: the worldБЂ™s first БЂњpipe lineБЂ«(oil pipeline) was built and placed in service. That line was five miles long, and had a pipe diameter of two inches. Gennady Romanovsky described the results of his trip in detail in his БЂњReport of Lt. Colonel Romanovsky to the Mining Department on Drilling in Europe and on Lighting Materials,БЂ«where he analyzed in detail the state of affairs in exploration, production, and refining of crude oil, or petroleum, which БЂњin the United States provides considerable annual income both to the government and to private individuals.БЂ«He also pointed out that in the US, the discovery and industrial-scale development of natural sources of petroleum (unlike in Russia) had been carried on for quite some time, due to the БЂњconvenience and cheapness of producing this lighting material.БЂ«In North America, БЂњpetrol or crude oil is divided into two types: heavy for lubrication and light for lighting.БЂ«In an effort to bring the results of his trip to the attention of Russian mining engineers, Gennady Romanovsky published an article in the Gorny zhurnal, БЂњOn Petroleum Generally and North American Petrol in ParticularБЂ«(1866), where he argued that the production and consumption of oil in Russia needed to be increased, even though БЂњas a fuel it generally has not spread far and has not been adopted as boiler fuel on steamships and locomotives.БЂ«In his opinion, the geologic research of mining engineer Friedrich von Koschkull, Lt ...»