Caption: Oil wells sometimes get stopped up with sand or wax, or the pumping equipment needs repair. Oil men use a workover rig like this to reach into the hole and doctor their sick wells
Title
Jack Pumps Oil
Identifier
e_enr_243
Topic
Petroleum industry
Dates
circa 1950-1960
Resource
Prints and photographs collection
Description
Caption: In many Texas oil fields, oil wells do not have enough gas or water pressure to flow by themselves. In such oil fields, pumping jacks nod up and down to life the oil from the bottom of the hole
Title
Laying A Pipeline
Identifier
e_enr_245
Topic
Petroleum industry
Dates
circa 1950-1960
Resource
Prints and photographs collection
Description
Caption: Pipelines running underground all over Texas carry oil and gas from fields to refineries and cities. Here a new pipeline is being painted and wrapped and buried in a ditch by machines
Title
Oil Exploration
Identifier
e_enr_244
Topic
Petroleum industry
Dates
circa 1950-1960
Resource
Prints and photographs collection
Description
Caption: A Texas seismograph crew measures the echos in the earth made by this explosion to learn what kind of rock is below. If it is the kind that might hold oil, a well may be drilled.
Title
Oil Under The Sand
Identifier
e_enr_242
Topic
Petroleum industry
Dates
circa 1950-1960
Resource
Prints and photographs collection
Description
Caption: This big rig is drilling a well deep below the sand hills of far west Texas. Some of the nation's great oil fields are here. Now desert-like, this area was under the sea millions of years ago
Title
A Texas Refinery
Identifier
e_enr_251
Topic
Petroleum industry
Dates
circa 1950-1960
Resource
Prints and photographs collection
Description
Caption: At refineries, the crude oil which comes from the wells is cooked and treated to make gasoline, fuel oil, greases, and many other products. This is one of many large Texas refineries
Title
Texas Tank Farm
Identifier
e_enr_241
Topic
Petroleum industry
Dates
circa 1950-1960
Resource
Prints and photographs collection
Description
Caption: Pipelines bring oil from the field to these tank farms where the oil is stored until needed. In Texas one sees these tank farms along the pipe line routes and near big refineries