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Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroads breaking all-time traffic records, they are still able to give valuable service in hauling the tank cars of the oil companies from Gulf Coast and Texas fields. But only a fraction of the required tank cars are available. Railroads are hauling 500,000 barrels daily, hope for 800,000 as more cars can be made available for movement to the East. But this still would be only half of the normal civilian requirement

Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Water feature outside the headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an independent oil producer in Dallas, Texas

Water feature outside the headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an indepe...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Oil companies have no desire to create monopoly, House Judiciary Committee told. Washington, D.C., June 23. W.S. Farish, President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, said before the House Judiciary Committee today that there is keen competition among oil companies and that major companies have no desire to create a monopoly. Farish joined other oil company executives in condemning before the committee a bill to divorce production, refining, and marketing processes of the oil industry

Oil companies have no desire to create monopoly, House Judiciary Commi...

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America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A large pipeline valve controls a pipe leading from storage tanks on shore to fuel tanks of a U.S. merchant ship. This oil dock is in a U.S. Atlantic coast seaport at which oil in large quantities is continually being transhipped for war purposes. The equipment belongs to on the the principal U.S. oil companies working at peak capacity to supply the Navy's mechanized equipment and warplanes of the United Nations. The amount of gasoline needed alone for the 180,000 planes manufactured by the U.S. since December 7, 1941 is indicated by the fact that to train one flyer pilot requires 12,500 gallons of gasoline, enough to last the average U.S. civilian motorist a lifetime

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

Water feature outside the headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an independent oil producer in Dallas, Texas

Water feature outside the headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an indepe...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geologist, employed by one of the important U.S. oil companies, surveys, with the help of his "rod man" standing on the ridge in the background, a section of land to detect the presence of a possible oil deposit under the ground. "Hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil were discarded long ago in the United States. Today careful preliminary surveys and test borings precede the sinking of most oil wells. Geology experts of the important oil companies are able as a rule to read the surface of the ground accurately for the detection of oil deposits. The industry's efficient methods of finding oil have resulted in the enormous amounts of oil produced. According to a U.S. oil company official, the predictable U.S. oil total for the year 1944 will be 1,601,250,000 barrels, a great part of which will supply the armed forces of the United Nations

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

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. At an oil well in the U.S. Southwest state of Oklahoma, oil drillers are using tools called "tongs" which are clamped on the drill stem to screw on a new section of stem or to unscrew the stem, section by section, after the drilling far below the earth's surface is finished. This procedure is common in modern rotary drilling for oil . The well pictured here is being drilled by a "wildcat" organization of drillers, which means they are formed in a group independent of any of the great oil companies. The well, if successful, will contribute to the vast quantity of oil being poured overseas to the U.S. armed forces and the United Nations for the successful waging of the war. The predictable total of U.S. oil production in 1944, according to a U.S. oil company official, is 1,601,2500,000 barrels produced by thousands of wells such as this one. Some U.S. oilwells today are drilled to a depth of three miles (4.8 kilometers) underground

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

Proposed House bill would ruin small oil companies, Kentucky oil executive tells House Committee. Washington, D.C., June 23. Testifying against a proposed House bill that would divorce production, refining and marketing processes in the oil industry, Paul G. Blazer, President of the Ashland Oil and Refining Co. of Kentucky, told the House Judiciary Committee that passage of such a bill would ruin a company like his. He said his company was a small concern but was completely integrated

Proposed House bill would ruin small oil companies, Kentucky oil execu...

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Oil companies have no desire to create monopoly, House Judiciary Committee told. Washington, D.C., June 23. W.S. Farish, President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, said before the House Judiciary Committee today that there is keen competition among oil companies and that major companies have no desire to create a monopoly. Farish joined other oil company executives in condemning before the committee a bill to divorce production, refining, and marketing processes of the oil industry

Oil companies have no desire to create monopoly, House Judiciary Commi...

A black and white photo of two men sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc.... More

Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroads breaking all-time traffic records, they are still able to give valuable service in hauling the tank cars of the oil companies from Gulf Coast and Texas fields. But only a fraction of the required tank cars are available. Railroads are hauling 500,000 barrels daily, hope for 800,000 as more cars can be made available for movement to the East. But this still would be only half of the normal civilian requirement

Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroad...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Railroad cars stand on a side track ready to receive cargoes of gasoline stored in large spherical tanks at the refinery of one of the principal U.S. oil companies. The cars will speed the gasoline across the American continent to seaports where it will be loaded onto tanker ships for conveyance overseas to the armed forces of the United Nations. Gasoline totals have reached new records since the U.S. entered the war. Besides the enormous amounts required to fuel the 180,000 planes American factories have turned out since December 7, 1941, large supplies of fuel are needed for naval vessels, merchant ships, tanks and mechanized units in the field. It takes 25,000 gallons of gasoline to move a single U.S. Army tank division 100 miles (160 kilometers)

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

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Important to oil companies, and those boring for oil ... New York, April 13, 1865.

Important to oil companies, and those boring for oil ... New York, Apr...

On verso: Mechanics Oil Land Boring Co.; M. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 126, Folder 9.

Proposed House bill would ruin small oil companies, Kentucky oil executive tells House Committee. Washington, D.C., June 23. Testifying against a proposed House bill that would divorce production, refining and marketing processes in the oil industry, Paul G. Blazer, President of the Ashland Oil and Refining Co. of Kentucky, told the House Judiciary Committee that passage of such a bill would ruin a company like his. He said his company was a small concern but was completely integrated

Proposed House bill would ruin small oil companies, Kentucky oil execu...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 19... More

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geologist, employed by one of the important U.S. oil companies, surveys, with the help of his "rod man" standing on the ridge in the background, a section of land to detect the presence of a possible oil deposit under the ground. "Hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil were discarded long ago in the United States. Today careful preliminary surveys and test borings precede the sinking of most oil wells. Geology experts of the important oil companies are able as a rule to read the surface of the ground accurately for the detection of oil deposits. The industry's efficient methods of finding oil have resulted in the enormous amounts of oil produced. According to a U.S. oil company official, the predictable U.S. oil total for the year 1944 will be 1,601,250,000 barrels, a great part of which will supply the armed forces of the United Nations

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

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A large pipeline valve controls a pipe leading from storage tanks on shore to fuel tanks of a U.S. merchant ship. This oil dock is in a U.S. Atlantic coast seaport at which oil in large quantities is continually being transhipped for war purposes. The equipment belongs to on the the principal U.S. oil companies working at peak capacity to supply the Navy's mechanized equipment and warplanes of the United Nations. The amount of gasoline needed alone for the 180,000 planes manufactured by the U.S. since December 7, 1941 is indicated by the fact that to train one flyer pilot requires 12,500 gallons of gasoline, enough to last the average U.S. civilian motorist a lifetime

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

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an independent oil producer in Dallas, Texas

The headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an independent oil producer in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geology expert of one of the large oil companies U.S. displays two varieties of sand from an oil drilling district. The hand on the left holds dry, oil-less sand, while the one on the right holds sand rich and dark with oil. The latter oil-soaked sand, called "Simpson sand," is the goal of all seekers of oil and finding the sand in a test-boring indicates that is a well is sunk at that place the chances of "striking" oil are good. No longer do oilwell drillers in the U.S. rely on "hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil. Geologists make careful surveys of the surface of the ground to detect those geological characteristics which indicate the presence of oil deposits beneath. The industry's high efficiency has resulted in the production of enormous quantities of oil, a great part of which today propels and lubricates the planes, navies, and mechanized equipment of the United Nations' armed forces

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

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. At an oil well in the U.S. Southwest state of Oklahoma, oil drillers are using tools called "tongs" which are clamped on the drill stem to screw on a new section of stem or to unscrew the stem, section by section, after the drilling far below the earth's surface is finished. This procedure is common in modern rotary drilling for oil . The well pictured here is being drilled by a "wildcat" organization of drillers, which means they are formed in a group independent of any of the great oil companies. The well, if successful, will contribute to the vast quantity of oil being poured overseas to the U.S. armed forces and the United Nations for the successful waging of the war. The predictable total of U.S. oil production in 1944, according to a U.S. oil company official, is 1,601,2500,000 barrels produced by thousands of wells such as this one. Some U.S. oilwells today are drilled to a depth of three miles (4.8 kilometers) underground

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

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Sign for Hunt Oil Company headquarters in Dallas, Texas]

[Sign for Hunt Oil Company headquarters in Dallas, Texas]

Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054)... More