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Oil of RussiaThe First Trunk Petroleum Product Pipeline One of the bottlenecks in the Russian oil industry was the lack of a developed pipeline infrastructure. This created serious obstacles to organizing the broader sale of petroleum products within Russia and in foreign countries. Taking its cue from the positive results of American oil industrialists, who had put the first oil pipeline into operation in 1865, Russia constructed its first oil pipeline in 1878, five years after the abolition of the tax-farming system in the Transcaucasus. The oil pipelineБЂ”built on the Absheron Peninsula by Bari, Sytenko & Co. for the Nobel BrothersБЂ™ companyБЂ”was 5.6 miles long, had a pipe diameter of 8 inches, and could transport a daily capacity of 9,600 barrels. In its first few months of operation, 101,012 barrels were pumped through the pipeline; in 1879 the volume increased to an impressive 600,510 barrels. The Nobel BrothersБЂ™ example was followed by the well-known entrepreneur Vasily Kokorev, one of the founders of the Baku Oil Company, for which Bari, Sytenko & Co. built a kerosene pipeline from the BOC refinery in Surakhany to the Zikh pier on the Caspian Sea ...» |
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