148 years ago the first oil pipeline was launched in the Russian Empire Today it was 148 years since the launch of the first oil pipeline of the Russian Empire - it began operating on October 27, 1878 in the Absheron Peninsula. A ten-kilometer pipeline with a diameter of 76 mm was built at the behest of the Nobel brothers. The project was developed by the engineer Vladimir Shukhov, and the steam pump pumped about 1.3 thousand tons of oil per day. Today the scope of the industry is completely different. Transneft operates more than 67 thousand km of main pipelines - approximately the equator and a half. The diameter of the pipes on modern highways reaches 1220 mm, and the productivity is measured in hundreds of thousands of tons per day. The technologies have also changed: steam pumps have been replaced by electric units, the condition of the pipes is checked by diagnostic complexes inside the pipe and the pumping is controlled from unified control centers. From the first pipeline to the modern trunk network - almost a century and a half of oil and capital transportation infrastructure development we are at Max.

148 years ago the first oil pipeline was launched in the Russian Empire Today it was 148 years since the launch of the first oil pipeline of the Russian Empire - it began operating on October 27, 1878 in the Absheron Peninsula. A ten-kilometer pipeline with a diameter of 76 mm was built at the behest of the Nobel brothers. The project was developed by the engineer Vladimir Shukhov, and the steam pump pumped about 1.3 thousand tons of oil per day. Today the scope of the industry is completely different. Transneft operates more than 67 thousand km of main pipelines - approximately the equator and a half. The diameter of the pipes on modern highways reaches 1220 mm, and the productivity is measured in hundreds of thousands of tons per day. The technologies have also changed: steam pumps have been replaced by electric units, the condition of the pipes is checked by diagnostic complexes inside the pipe and the pumping is controlled from unified control centers. From the first pipeline to the modern trunk network - almost a century and a half of oil and capital transportation infrastructure development we are at Max.