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 A photo of an oil drilling rig, 1974, taking on a bright sunny day at the barron Ranch Ellenburger Field in Garza County, Texas KERR MCGEE 80 |
 Uranium exploration at Ambrosia Lake. June 1956 KERR MCGEE 81 |
 Dean McGee and Robert S. Kerr standing outside a house, 1947Probably one of the first two drilling rigs purchased by RS Kerr & James Anderson in 1929. Steam-rotary KERR MCGEE 84 |
 A photo of Transocean Rig in North Sea. c 1967. Transocean is a subsidiary of Kerr McGee KERR MCGEE 85 |
 A picture taken at twilight of a rig beside a body of water in Holt, Texas KERR MCGEE 86 |
 A photo of the sun shining through the clouds of an offshore rig KERR MCGEE 87 |
 Head frame at Grants (Ambrosia Lake) Uranium Mine KERR MCGEE 88 |
 Caterpillar Diesel D 315 Engine pumps water for drilling operations on location near Icy Bay, Alaska, July 2, 1954 KERR MCGEE 89 |
 Wildcat well drilling is being conducted by Kerr McGee on a large structure in extreme northeast British Columbia KERR MCGEE 90 |
 The Wynnewood Refinery in the spring of 1955 KERR MCGEE 93 |
 An upward shot of the Wynnewood Refinery, Ok KERR MCGEE 95 |
 A Head Frame at Grants KERR MCGEE 96 |
 Coal mining probably Jacobs Ranch Mine, Wyoming, 1977 KERR MCGEE 103 |
 An aerial photo of Rig 61 KERR MCGEE 107 |
 The first producing well drilled out of sight of land in Gulf of Mexico. Used fixed platform and tender. 1947 KERR MCGEE 108 |
 Rig 61 was built in Japan in 1970 at a cost of $8.5 million. Unique design use din South Africa and North Sea KERR MCGEE 109 |
 Rig 54 in the Gulf of Mexico 378'. Largest bottom supported submserible ever built. Model is in one of the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. Built in 1962 KERR MCGEE 110 |
 Offshore oil operations. Block 28 KERR MCGEE 111 |
 Testing in the Gulf of Mexico for geophysical exploration, 1945 KERR MCGEE 114 |
 Production platform for first Gulf of Mexico Well (1947) as it appeared in 1977. Today it is a single platform KERR MCGEE 115 |
 Famous Kerr McGee rig that showed submseribles could be used in open water for exploration and drilling. Also, Kerr McGee's first mobile unit. c. 1950s KERR MCGEE 117 |
 Offshore oil operations, Rig 58 KERR MCGEE 119 |
 First offshore well, 1947 KERR MCGEE 121 |
Transworld rig 47, offshore rig, Louisiana KERR MCGEE 121 |
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