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Kirkuk district--A river of crude oil--Result of an uncontrolled gusher

Kirkuk district--A river of crude oil--Result of an uncontrolled gushe...

Item in album: no. 4852. Forms part of: the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Ramath Gan. The Argaman Textile Dyeing & Finishing Co., Ltd. The furnace heated with crude oil

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Oil well derricks on the beach along the coast of the U.S. Pacific coast state of California indicate how thorough is the seach for oil which has been going on in America for more than eighty years. Some beach wells are drilled straight down to reach oil deposits, but others are drilled at an angle so that oil is being pumped from locations far under the sea. Sometimes the bottom of the well is a quarter mile or half mile from the shore, while surf washes the foundations of the steel tower on which the drilling or pumping machinery is placed. The thoroughness and efficiency of the U.S. oil industry in finding new oil deposits accounts for the enormous supplies produced in America for the modern machines of war. In 1944 according to a U.S. oil company official, the predictable U.S. crude oil total will reach 1,601,250,000 barrels

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Public domain photograph of California industry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. These three new catalytic oil "cracking" units are turning out gasoline for the new machines of war at the plant of a large U.S. refining company in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana. In the eight years of the development of the "cracking" process in producing gasoline, it is estimated that 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude oil have been saved by the oil industry. The "cracking" process subjects crude oil to heat and pressure by which the oil molecules are broken down and made to release more of their derivable elements. The drain of war on such gasoline producing units as these is shown by the fact that the U.S. has manufactured 180,000 planes since December 7, 1941, propelled by gasoline motors. For example, one U.S. Liberator four-motored bomber in a six-hour bombing run consumes 1,800 gallons of gasoline, enough to last the average U.S. civilian motorist from three to five years

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the crude-stripping tower, one of the many steps in the manufacture of the lubricants of war. Thousands of gallons of crude oil pour through this tower daily; it is here that impurities are extracted. Only the best oil is used for military purposes

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the cru...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. A river of crude oil. Result of an uncontrolled gusher

Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the crude-stripping tower, one of the many steps in the manufacture of the lubricants of war. Thousands of gallons of crude oil pour through this tower daily; it is here that impurities are extracted. Only the best oil is used for military purposes

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the cru...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. An "oil flow chart," showing the course of oil through a modern plant, is being studied by men of an oil "cracking" unit in the U.S., while an expert explains to them the intracacies of the chart. Large oil "cracking" plants, for the rapid production of aviation gasoline and other products, are one of the most recent developments in the refining phase of the oil industry in the United States. Crude oil in these units, when subjected to great heat and pressure, is forced to give up more of its derivable elements than by former methods of refining. The process "cracks" or breaks down the crude oil molecules. In the last eight years since the process was put into operation more than 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude oil, it is estimated, have been saved by the large quantities of crude oil products now being made available to the combat units of the U.S. and her allies

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Additional information from caption on print in lot: Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. Portrait of America series; no. 83. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; Uni... More

The one and only exhibit at the "Million-Barrel Museum" in Monahans, Texas

The one and only exhibit at the "Million-Barrel Museum" in Monahans, T...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This is a giant storage tank. Constructed for the Shell Oil Company in 1928, using mules and hand equipment, when the area was experi... More

Communist China, crude oil resources and refineries.

Communist China, crude oil resources and refineries.

"For official use only." "4-61." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on: 282B. Map number cut away. Mounted on cloth and laminated.

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. An "oil flow chart," showing the course of oil through a modern plant, is being studied by men of an oil "cracking" unit in the U.S., while an expert explains to them the intracacies of the chart. Large oil "cracking" plants, for the rapid production of aviation gasoline and other products, are one of the most recent developments in the refining phase of the oil industry in the United States. Crude oil in these units, when subjected to great heat and pressure, is forced to give up more of its derivable elements than by former methods of refining. The process "cracks" or breaks down the crude oil molecules. In the last eight years since the process was put into operation more than 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude oil, it is estimated, have been saved by the large quantities of crude oil products now being made available to the combat units of the U.S. and her allies

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Public domain photograph - aircraft, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Full-sized and scaled-down models of oil derricks mark a silver of the "World's Richest Acre" that has been preserved in downtown Kilgore in East Texas

Full-sized and scaled-down models of oil derricks mark a silver of the...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The block was the most densely drilled tract in the world in the late 1930s. One acre yielded more than 2.5 million barrels of crude ... More

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Oil well derricks on the beach along the coast of the U.S. Pacific coast state of California indicate how thorough is the seach for oil which has been going on in America for more than eighty years. Some beach wells are drilled straight down to reach oil deposits, but others are drilled at an angle so that oil is being pumped from locations far under the sea. Sometimes the bottom of the well is a quarter mile or half mile from the shore, while surf washes the foundations of the steel tower on which the drilling or pumping machinery is placed. The thoroughness and efficiency of the U.S. oil industry in finding new oil deposits accounts for the enormous supplies produced in America for the modern machines of war. In 1944 according to a U.S. oil company official, the predictable U.S. crude oil total will reach 1,601,250,000 barrels

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Additional information from caption on print in lot: Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. Portrait of America series; no. 83. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; Uni... More

Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. A river of crude oil. Result of an uncontrolled gusher

Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Caption continues from catalog: For I.P.C. activities a... More

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Ramath Gan. The Argaman Textile Dyeing & Finishing Co., Ltd. The furnace heated with crude oil

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iraq (Babylonia). Kirkuk, river of crude oil

Iraq (Babylonia). Kirkuk, river of crude oil

Public domain photograph of river bank, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description