Work We Did
Big Brutus is a
160-foot tall
Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co was purchased in October 1963 by Gulf Oil. In 2007 Chevron merged this company with Molycorp to become Chevron Mining
Chevron Gas Plant at Rangely Colorado. This picture was taken 22 December 1969 with a Tower "Snappy" box camera and 620 film by Ken Bailey. He grew up as a teenager in Rangely, Colorado, home of Chevron's Rangely Weber Sand Unit oilfield.
Pacific Western Oil Field in the California Tidelands in September 1945. Pacific Western Oil Corporation was incorporated as a holding company for Edward L. Doherty and family in 1928. J. Paul Getty would obtain controling interest in 1936.
Drilling for Gypsy Oil in the Glenn Pool Field in southwest Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Gypsy Oil was formed by Gulf in 1907 to manage the Glenn Pool Field in Oklahoma. Gulf layed an 8 inch line to their refinery in Port Arthur, Texas to process this oil.
Trans Arabian Pipeline construction began in 1947
and was completed in 1950. It was a 30" and 31" line from Qaisumah Saudi
Arabia running 753.5 miles to Sidon, Lebanon. The 314.7 miles of pipe
line which extends east and south from Qaisumah to one of the world's
largest producing oil fields belong to Aramco. After years of constant bickering between Saudi Arabia and
Syria and Lebanon over transit fees, the emergence of the supertankers,
and pipeline failures, the section of the line beyond Jordan ceased
operation in 1976. Between Saudi Arabia and
Jordan pumped modest amounts of petroleum until 1990
when the Saudis cut off the pipeline in response to Jordan's support of
Iraq during
the
First Gulf War.
Texaco Rig in Houma, Louisiana Portable steam engine Union Oil Company used
on their wells in the Santa Paula oil district of the Ventura Basin. Union Oil Truck Delivering Products to a
construction site in Santa Ana, California Union Oil of California station. Ford
Speedster Gulf Oil Mess Hall Crane Texas Unocal Battle Gas Processing Plant near Santa
Maria, California built in 1937. It was abandoned in 1995. Another plant
was built at Lomboc to replace it. Standard Oil Company Complex in Coalinga,
California in 1907 Pacific Western Oil Company Boilers at the
Kettleman Hills Oil Field, ca.1931 Oil Workers having Lunch in a Dog House 1951
California Offshore Company Rig 52 Drilling For Gulf Oil
Company in 1960 Royalite #4 - Hooking up the well that started
the oil boom in Turner Valley, Alberta Canada in 1924. Gulf Oil Rotary Crew Going to Work. Must be
going to work, they look clean. Cy Woodruff and crew Drilling a Well for
Standard Oil of California in Southern California in 1922. Standard Oil of California Service Barge at
the Tacoma Yacht Club July 1924 Standard Oil of California El Segundo Refinery
Central Tool Room in 1935 Chicago Carbon Company. This company was
originally owned by Union Oil of California. Chevron merged it,
Pittsburg & Midlands Coal Company and MolyCorp and renamed the company
Chevron Mining in 2007. Kern River 1899 Hauling Oil to Market with a
Team of Mules. Oil was selling for 8 to 10 cents a barrel
from the early Bakersville Wells while water transported to Bakersville
would sell fo $1.25 a barrel. Hopefully, it was not in the same barrels
that left the field with oil. Kettleman Hills Oil Field, ca1930 Standard Oil
of California Texaco Field Crew Quarters in Louisiana.
Crews are waithing for boats to take them to the field. Texaco Office and Living Quarters in Louisiana Molycorp Minerals open pit Mountain Pass Mine
in Mountain Pass, California Texaco Camp in the Bemis Oil Field - 1936
Ellis County, Kansas
