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Exploring for Oil in Louisiana. Our geologist
have searched for oil is some very hostile
environments. |
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Exploring for Oil in Bahrain. Ed Skinner
is standing atop Jebel Al Dukan overlooking
the drilling rig in 1932. Oil was discovered
31 May 1932 |
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Exploring for Oil in Southeast Asia. Geologists
found more swamp to wade through looking
for oil. |
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Exploring for Oil in Mississippi Delta. Doodlebug
crew in swamp setting shot line. |
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Minas drilling in the 1940's. Discovery well
was spudded just before the Imperial Japanese
Army invaded Indonesia. The Japanese completed
the well which discovered the Minas Oil Field. |
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Pico Canyon Well No 4 Circa 1877. This well
resulted in the formation of Pacific Coast
Oil which later became Standard Oil of California. |
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Lakeview Union Oil. Union drilled these well
after the Pico Number 4 proved to be a success.
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Lucas Gusher near Beaumont, Texas blew out
10 January 1901. This was the beginning of
around 200 companies. Texas Company and Gulf
Oil were two of these companies. |
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California Arabian Standard Oil Company spudded
Damman Well Number 7 on 7 December 1936 in
Saudi Arabia. After hitting gas on 31 December
1937, the geologist said "dig a bit
deeper" and on 4 March 1938 oil was
hit. In 1936, the company was a joint venture
of Texaco Company and Standard Oil of California.
In 1944 the name was changed to Aramco. Standard
Oil of New Jersey and Socony-Vacuuum bought
into Aramco in 1948. By 1980, Aramco was
a Saudi company. |
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Gulf Oil Drills First Over Water Well in
1910 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana |
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Schlumberger on location at Kern River, California
in 1933. |
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Directional Driller setting a whipstock.
He is orientating the direction to start
a directional well. |
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Mud Engineer test the mud properties of the
drilling fluid. |
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Ninian Central being towed from Loch Kiskorn
Scotland in 1978 into the North Sea. At the
time this was the largest man made object
to move across the face of the earth. |
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Laying Pipe required a lot of people. This
shows a line being screwed together using
pipe tong. The rest of the people are trying
to get the two pipes to line up by prying
up on the pipe until it was level. The big
boss had a hammer to hit the pipe to help. |
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Crew laying pipe in 1930 in Texas |
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Texaco Roustabouts sitting on their crew
truck. |
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Oil Field Workers going to the field on and
old chain driven truck. OSHA would enjoy
this. |
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Pumper Gaugers discussing the operation. |
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The oil is now in the tank |
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Thieving a tank to determine oil water content
before selling tank of oil. |
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Dropping a tape measure to determine the
oil level in the tank before selling tank
of oil. |
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Christmas Tree were installed to control
well after Spindletop |
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The tree that Anthony Lucas used at Spindletop
to control the flow of oil. This was the
first time a Christmas tree was employed
on a producing well. |
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Texaco Port Arthur Refinery. To process oil
from Spindletop, the Texas Company built
their first refinery in 1903. It is still
in operation by Shell and Saudi. |
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Port Arthur Refinery Office
Workers |
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Union Oil First Refinery
Newhall, California. They built this refinery
after the discovery of Lakeview. |
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Union Oil workers decorating vessel at refinery
for Halloween
in 1952 |
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Pure Oil Refinery built on the Delaware River
in 1904. Not sure who currently owns this
refinery think that it might be Sunco. Union
Oil of California bought Pure Oil Company
in 1965. |
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Port Arthur Refinery Gulf tanks and loading
warf. |
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Port Arthur Refinery Gulf was built in 1903
to process Spindletop oil. It is still in
operation by Valero Energy Company. |
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Bahrain Refinery Caltex. In 1936 a joint
venture with Standard Oil California and
Texaco built a refinery to process oil from
the Awali Field. It is still in operation
by Bahrain National Oil Company. |
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El Segundo became the second refinery built
by Standard Oil Company and went on line
15 August 1911. It is still in operation
in Los Angeles County by Chevron.
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The Richmond Refinery, El Primo, near San
Francisco received first oil on 7 July 1902.
It is still in operation by Chevron. |
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Point Orient Wharf was established to export
products to Asia. 1907 photo of the Point
Orient wharf shows the refinery's can factory
in the foreground, the box factory to its
left, and three ships waiting to be loaded |
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Wilshire Oil Company Refinery 1937. Gulf
Oil bought Wilshire
Oil Company in
1937.
Not sure who currently
owns this refinery. |
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British American Refinery in Moose Jaw, Sackatchewan.
Gulf Oil Canada owned controlling interest
as of 1956. Chevron sold its 60% interest
in Gulf Oil Canada Limited in 1985. |
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Regent Oil Company a joint venture with Texaco
in the UK purchased the Trinidad Operations
giving them the Pointe-a-Pierre Oil Refinery
in 1956. It is now owned by Petrotrin the
Trinidad National Oil Company |
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Texaco Pointe-a-Pierre Oil Refinery in 1968.
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Texaco Tank Car loading at Port Arthur, Texas.
Oil left the refinery by train cars and pipeline. |
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Texaco Loading Dock at Port Arthur, Texas.
Unloading oil from tanker for processing
at the refinery in 1925 |
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Standard Oil of California
four-masted Ship Edward Sewall 1899 |
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Tanker George Loomis Pacific Coast Oil |
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Gulf Swede Oil Tanker |
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Texaco New York Oil Tanker |
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Union Oil Tanker Sansinena in 1976 |
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Caltex Bahrain 1953 |
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Warren Petroleum built the SS Natilie Warren
in 1947 as the first liquid petroleum gas tanker.
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British American Oil Company Tanker Britamaco |
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Gulf Tank Truck in 1933 |
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Hazen Willett, standing, in early 1900's
at Pt Vernon. Loaded with products at Pt.
Wells, WA to be taken to Concrete, WA, a
four day round trip. Thanks to Ray M. Airone
a CRA member |
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Standard Oil of California |
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Standard Oil of California delivering oil
to the California and Hawaii Sugar Co in
the early 1900's. These two pictures were
salvaged from the trash by a niece of Tom
Hanson, a CRA member. |
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Standard Oil of California delivering gasoline
to the California and Hawaii Sugar Co at
Crockett, Contra Coasta County, CA in the
early 1900's |
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Texaco Tank Truck in 1910 |
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Texaco product delivery |
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Texaco Products Truck making a call on the
Service Station |
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Texaco Doodlebug. In 1935 Texaco designed
this tanker to
provide greater
economy, ease
of operation,
increased visibility,
and greater
capacity. |
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Pure Oil Company trucks being loaded 1943 |
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Gypsy Oil company car. Gypsy Oil was formed
by Gulf in 1907 to manage the Glenn Pool
Field in Oklahoma. This picture was taken
in 1917. The man is Art Morrison. |
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Indian Oil Company was purchased by Texaco
in 1931. With
the purchase they
obtained
Havoline. |
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Gulf Oil took over controlling interest in
British American Petroleum in 1956. In 1968
the BA logo was replaced with the Gulf logo. |
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British American car in 1940's |
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Texaco car in 1947 |
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Regent Oil Company truck. Texas. Texaco took
control of Regent Oil Company in the UK 1946. |
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The first service station in the world 1907.
John McLean of Standard Oil of California
in Seattle Washington set up a pump, wood
driveway, a canvas canopy and a display of
oil products. |
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Texaco Lube Rack. This was a good place for
people to gather and talk. |
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The first service station in the world that
was designed to be a drive in station open
its pumps on 1 December 1913 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania by Gulf Oil. |
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Dome Oil Company station ca 1920. Dome Oil
merged with Pinal Oil Company ca 1911 to
form the Pinal Dome Oil Company. The company
was bought by Union Oil ca. July 1917. The
truck is a Garford ca 1918. |
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Union Oil Station in Irvine, California in
the 1930's |
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Barney Oldfield getting his car filled with
Union gasoline |
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Pure Oil Station. Union Oil Company expanded
to national status in 1965 with the merger
of Pure Oil of Illinois, giving it operations
in 37 states. |
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Like this early Standard Oil of California
station most gas was dispensed at the curb. |
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Getty Oil Company Flying A at San Juan Capistrano,
circa 1959 |
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Skelly Oil Station in 1925 |
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Paragon Oil Company was mainly a distributer
of fuel oil in the northeastern United States.
Paragon was sold to Texaco in 1959. |
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Calpet Oil Company service station 1929-30.
Texaco bought California Petroleum Company
in 1928 making Texaco the first company to
market in all 48 states |
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Calso Station. Standard Oil of California
marketed as Calso |
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Gulf Oil marketed under the name of British
American Petroleum in Canada until 1968. |
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British American Oil Company purchased Royalite
Oil Company Limited. By 1964 Gulf Oil owned
96% of the shares. |
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Purity 99 was purchased along with Shawnigan Chemical Limited, Red
Head, Anglo-Canadian, and Royalite Oil Company
in 1963. In 1968 all stations were changed
to Gulf Oil. |
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McColl Frontenac Oil Co. (BC) Ltd was a Canadian
Company. Texaco started buying their stock
in 1936 and by 1940 controlled the board.
In 1959 the McColl Frontenac brand was replaced
with Texaco. |
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Texaco 1928. Texaco got involved with selling
aircraft fuels. Frank Hawks an airplane racer
was hired to head up the Aviation Division. |
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Frank
Hawks beside Texaco Northrop Gamma 2A completed in
August of 1932. and purchased by Texaco on December
6, 1932. |
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Standard Oil of California. This plane was
the flagship of the fleet. |
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Gulf Oil sea plane. Think it is a Grumman
Goose. |
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Union of California DC 3 was the corporate
airplane. This is a restored aircraft. |
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Pure Oil Company Fokker Super Universal,
NC761Y |
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Caltex Pacific Indonesia C47. This picture
was taken ca 1952 during the time of developing
the Minas Field. |
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Caltex Pacific Indonesia C47
at Pekanbaru |
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Caltex Fokker F27
Friendship airplane flown during the 1970's. Landing
at Kemoyoran Jakarta.
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Standard Oil of California bi-planes over
San Francisco. Socal was involved in promoting
their aviation fuel. |
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Aramco "Flying Camel" landing at
Dhahran in 1950's. Initially Aramco was a
joint venture in Saudi Arabia with Chevron
and Texaco. Later Esso and Mobil became partners. |
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Amelia Earhart getting galoline from Union
Oil. |
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Telephone operator working a switchboard
for Texaco |
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Texas Company office in Beaumont, Texas in early 1900's . This is probably the first office. |