The laboratory of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University uses five Memmert heating ovens, a vacuum oven and a humidity chamber to research how to improve the exploitation of oil reservoirs.
In a scene of “Giant”, the last movie of James Dean’s career, his character Jett Rink strikes oil and stands under a fountain of oil, completely covered in the black gold – quite iconic! Reality however, is certainly less dramatic. Luckily, today’s stop valves prevent fountains like this, with oil s
