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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
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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
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A photo of Transocean Rig in North Sea. c 1967. Transocean is a subsidiary of Kerr McGee
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A picture taken at twilight of a rig beside a body of water in Holt, Texas
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A photo of the sun shining through the clouds of an offshore rig
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Head frame at Grants (Ambrosia Lake) Uranium Mine
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Caterpillar Diesel D 315 Engine pumps water for drilling operations on location near Icy Bay, Alaska, July 2, 1954
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Wildcat well drilling is being conducted by Kerr McGee on a large structure in extreme northeast British Columbia
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The Wynnewood Refinery in the spring of 1955
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An upward shot of the Wynnewood Refinery, Ok
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A Head Frame at Grants
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Coal mining probably Jacobs Ranch Mine, Wyoming, 1977
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An aerial photo of Rig 61
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The first producing well drilled out of sight of land in Gulf of Mexico. Used fixed platform and tender. 1947
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Rig 61 was built in Japan in 1970 at a cost of $8.5 million. Unique design use din South Africa and North Sea
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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
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Offshore oil operations. Block 28
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Testing in the Gulf of Mexico for geophysical exploration, 1945
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Production platform for first Gulf of Mexico Well (1947) as it appeared in 1977. Today it is a single platform
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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
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Offshore oil operations, Rig 58
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First offshore well, 1947
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Transworld rig 47, offshore rig, Louisiana
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