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Drilling Fountain

1957-05-29

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Drilling Fountain
  • Title
  • Drilling Fountain
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F05.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F05.I06
  • Description
  • Description on the back of the photograph reads, “DRILLING FOUNTAIN - Water for carrying off drilling debris begins to fountain up, as Technician Robert A. Nelson guides withdrawal of the bit from a block of Georgia granite after an experimental run in the new Drilling Building at Gulf Oil’s Harmarville, Pa., Research Center. Equipped with an 80 ft. drilling derrick, rising through doors in the roof, the Building enables researchers to duplicate field operations with heavy equipment -- and so speed the transfer of research results into practice.” Until 1985 and the merger of Gulf with Chevron Oil Company, Gulf Oil’s international headquarters for research and development was located approximately ten miles from downtown Pittsburgh in Harmarville, Pennsylvania. At these facilities chemistry related aspects of petroleum exploration, production, and processing were conducted.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gulf Oil Corporation (Harmarville, Pa.).Research Center.Drilling Building.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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