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Historical Oil Drilling Sites

Black and white images depicting oil derricks and drilling equipment from the mid-20th century, showcasing historical extraction methods and machinery.

The derrick and drilling plant at Exmouth Gulf, Western Australian, where oil has been discovered. The map shows the position of the oil-bearing site on the west coast of Australia. December 5, 1953.
The derrick and drilling plant at Exmouth Gulf, Western Australian, where oil has been discovered. The map shows the position of the oil-bearing site on the west coast of Australia. December 5, 1953.
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A810443 DRILL RIGS F&S OPERATIONS J. BARTLETT (Project Engineer) JAN 13 81 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/13/1981 BARTLETT, J.; DRILLING RIGS; DRILLS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); F&S OPERATIONS; FENIX & SCISSON INC; IDECO 2500; MINING; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; RIGS; TEST SITES; TRAILERS; TRUCKS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; DRILL RIGS historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. The customs lines.
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Photograph of the mounds of stones and earth piled up behind the gold dredger as they are disgorged on the conveyor belt. Date: 1911
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Lookouts - Towers. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Horse wind at Grufris mines.
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A mushroom city at Venus (Cal.) which sprang up when an oil strike was made ***** worthless land there four months ago. October 28, 1930.
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White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) construction work at Fort Reno Park, Tenleytown, Washington, D.C. (19 Julyrn1961 through 19 January 1962). White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) construction work at a telecommunications station (Cartwheel), Fort Reno Park, Tenleytown, Washington, D.C.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC airbases. Radartoren (under construction) and Meteo. April 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Bridge over the Ångerman River with staff. Långsele - Mellansel
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Poll photo collection. Factory for fertilizer at Haifa with storage tanks and links. Storage of raw materials in the open air. January 1, 1964. Haifa, Israel
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Groove on Matcze.
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Pakistan, Sindh, Gudu Barrage being built on Indus River some 200 miles north of Karachi, 1959
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Drilling for Water. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Anefo photo collection. Construction of the Esso refinery in the Botlek area near Rotterdam. June 4, 1959
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Mounting band loaders in port.
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North Africa Pix - Well-Drilling at Arram, Tunisia. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Petroleum - Lacq, near Pau. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Rum Jungle. Uranium whites shaft. Fred Strange, Bill Pirie, Fred Drummond leaving the shaft. The biggest one at Rum Jungle.. September 29, 1953. (Photo by Gordon Herbert Short/Fairfax Media).
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Wood Preservation - Dipping. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Oil rig. Detailed vector illustration
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Oil fields. Kern County, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Kern County, Oil fields
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Oil well pouring oil. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1885
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Mining General - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Vintage Photograph. Off shore oil wells near Santa Barbara California.
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Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.
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Oil Well -- Bradford Oil fields, oil metropolis of the world , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Engineering Wonders, 1927: Electric-powered great mechanical shovel, Canada
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Oil Well -- Bradford Oil fields, oil metropolis of the world , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Oil Well -- Bradford Oil fields, oil metropolis of the world , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Aerial view of Mobile Launcher Platform
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DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, economy and culture from the years 1965-71. Industrial landscape ca. 1965 .environmental pollution, Europe
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Transparency - Main shaft, Horne mine property, Noranda Smelter, QC, about 1926
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USA. 19th century. Oil well in the Oil-Creek Valley. Colored engraving. "The Spanish and American Illustration," 1872.
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Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir, drainage improvement, station 10, near Pond Street, from the north, Stoneham, Mass., Jul. 15, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites, watershed sanitary improvement
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A gusher in the Pennsylvanian oilfields. Wood engraving 1886
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Anefo photo collection. Category World Exhibition in Brussels. April 11, 1957. Brussels
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Rural rehabilitation client talking with county supervisor, Farm Security Administration (FSA), Tulare County, California. She says: "Someday I'm going to build my house. Right over there by that garden.". 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Assistance, Rural poor, United States. Farm Security Administration
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Distribution Department, Arlington Pumping Station, construction progress, north wall, Arlington, Mass., Jan. 15, 1907 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction sites
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Ordnance Materials Research Reactor, containment shell , Armories, Ordnance industry, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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NY - Sloop Bar. Sloop Bar Hassock, New York. 4 piles in position - S.
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NY - Sloop Bar. Sloop Bar Hassock, New York. Completed, touching up paint. SW 45 ft. ()
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Vintage photograph. US Navy Martin Viking rocket as it receives its final check by technicians before flight on August 7, 1951
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One of the hundreds of producing wells in the oil-fields of the Williston basin in Western North Dakota , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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BARC Atomic Reactor at Trombay, under construction Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia, 1957-61 Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox
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Lignite mining in Western North Dakota , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Coal mining in Anthracite Region, Pennsylvania , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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This image depicts a firing of a single H-1 engine at the Marshall Space Flight Centers (MSFCs) Power Plant test stand. This 1950s test stand, inherited from the Army, was used to test fire engines until the Test Area was completed in the latter 1960s. The H-1 engine was the workhorse of the first Saturn launch vehicles and used in the Saturn I, Block 1 and II, and in the Saturn IB. The eight H-1 engines were attached to a thrust frame on the vehicles aft end in two different ways. Four engines are rigidly attached to the inboard position and canted at a three degree angle to the long axis of the booster. The other four engines, mounted in the outboard position, are canted at six degrees.