The following words may be useful to you.
| swampy out-of-the-way despite harsh swift raw material petrochemical combine | prevail to create permafrost to solve oil-processing well-head gas | - |
The oil and gas deposits in Siberia are unique in their size. The demand for oil and gas is growing quickly in all countries and the world as a whole. The development of the colossal oil deposits in Siberia is important for the swift progress of Siberia itself. Siberian oil will serve as raw material for large scale petrochemical combines in Novosibirsk, Tobolsk, Omsk and many other industrial centres of the West Siberian economic area.
Today every third ton of oil and every third cubic metre of gas extracted in the country come from Tyumen. Among the deposits discovered by Tyumen geologists and oil-men during the first stage was Samotlor, an oil field lying under the lake of the same name in the out-of-the-way district. Despite the harsh conditions prevailing in the Far North a major complex has been created above this deposit. A number of complex scientific and technical problems connected with the drilling and transporting gas in permafrost regions have been solved. Oil processing industries are being formed in Western Siberia.
Gas-processing plants have been built in Nizhnevartovsk and Pravdinsk to utilize well head gas.
b) Are the following sentences true or false?
1.) The oil and gas deposits in Siberia are unique in their size.
2.) The demand for oil and gas is growing slowly in all countries and in the world as a whole.
3.) The development of the oil deposits in Siberia is important for the swift progress of Siberia itself.
4.) A major complex has been created above Samotlor.
5.) Oil processing industries are being formed in the Far East.
UNIT 3
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF OIL PIPE LINE
I. Study the following words before reading the text.
| 1. cast-iron 2. commodities 3. confine 4. crude 5. delivery capacity 6. distribution 7. ditcher 8. efficiency 9. equipment 10. face 11. in bulk 12. include 13. iron-ore 14. insulating | 1. 2. 3. 4. , 5. 6. 7. 8. , 9. 10. 11. a) , ; b) 12. 13. 14. | 15. lay a pipe 16. launch 17. mileage 18. net 19. oil field 20. pipe bending machine 21. pipe laying machine 22. pipe screwing machine 23. screwed 24. slurry 25. solid 26. to that end 27. trunk line | 15. 16. 17. 18. () 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. |
II. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the following words.
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| industrialized successful feasibility excavator hydrocarbons | Machine bulldozer soviet union due to supply | necessarily acid subdivided influenced pioneering breakthrough |
III. Translate into Russian the following word combinations.
| 1. pipe 2. pipe line 3. oil pipe line 4. oil pipe line construction 5. oil pipe line construction company 6. oil pipe line transportation | 7. oil product pipe line 8. world petroleum production 9. railway tank car transportation 10. a 40-inch diameter pipe line 11. a 170-mile pipe line 12. a 170-mile 40 inch pipe line 13. long distance trunk pipe line |
IV. Find the proper Russian equivalents for the following English terms.
| 1. iron-ore 2. delivery capacity 3. ditcher 4. screwed 5. slurry 6.commodities 7. solid 8. trench | a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. |
V. Read and translate the following text.
