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[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0104]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GIANT blowout preventer, largest ever designed and assembled by Armco Steel Corp.'s National Supply Division, is included in equipment for a 639-foot whale factory ship being converted in Oslo, Norway, into the largest self-propelled drilling vessel on the oceans."
Date: September 3, 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0095]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TUNNELING below Ponca City, this loader operator is removing limestone about 350 feet below the surface during construction of Continental Oil Co.'s 300,000-barrel, $1,275,000 underground storage cavern for propane."
Date: November 13, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dinosaurs of a modern age, the steel oil derricks which have long been fixtures on the skyline of Oklahoma City, appear destined for eventual extinction."
Date: April 12, 1976
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0093]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SKIDDING to a new location is Rig 28, one of five rigs being operated by Kerr-McGee Oil Industries of Oklahoma City in the Mendoza area of Argentina."
Date: August 20, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0112]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "PULLING OUT of the frisco Railway freight yard in Oklahoma City Tuesday -- headed for Guatemala -- this 30-car train loaded with 500 tons of oilwell drilling equipment is the largest single rail shipment of machinery from Oklahoma in history."
Date: March 19, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0107]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SAID TO BE the first of its kind, this mobile refinery cleaning unit is being built by Delta Manufacturing & Engineering Corp. in dallas for use in south American refinery."
Date: August 21, 1966
Creator: Thompson, F. L."Bub"
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0097]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DRESSED UP is the only term to apply to this rig of Parker Drilling Co., which is cutting hole at the Phillips Petroleum Co.'s No. 2 Cicero (Murray) on the north edge of the Lindsay townsite, in Garvin County, and is part of the contractor's policy of "good house keeping."
Date: April 17, 1960
Creator: Lacy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ANOTHER COMPACT is what field men call this heater, separator and tank hookup for high-pressure gas wells, a product of O'Neill Tank Co., of Great Bend, Kans."
Date: September 25, 1960
Creator: Wilson, Gene
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0092]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Launched from the New Orleans, La., docks into the Mississippi river, just one of the massive lower hull footings of Kerr-McGee's Rig 54 makes a mighty splash."
Date: March 25, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0113]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Over-seeing loading operations of 500 tons of drilling equipment on freight cars in Frisco Railway's Oklahoma City yards are, left to right, Jim Graham, with Texaco Inc.'s south American operations; Rex Beal, Oklahoma drilling superintendent for An-Son Corp., and A. H. "Red" Stephenson, An-Son's Louisiana contract drilling division manager."
Date: March 15, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0102]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In giant Pegasus field of west Texas, now being converted to computer control on a pilot basis, maintenance technicians J. H. Caldwell, left, and F. B. Abernathy calibrate one of the new pieces of equipment involved -- a pressure transducer."
Date: March 26, 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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