Title taken from verso. Aerial view of liquefied natural gas plant and ammonia and urea plant near Kenai, Alaska, with docks in foreground and storage tanks on shore. Also from verso: "... at left is the Phillips-Marathon Liquefied Natural Gas...
Title taken from similar photo. Aerial view of Collier Carbon and Chemical Corporation Alaska Ammonia and Urea Plant on Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. July 1968. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from information with similar photo. Aerial view of Collier Carbon and Chemical Corporation Alaska Ammonia and Urea Plant on Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. July 1968. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Designed to overcome the 30-foot tides, crushing ice, and strong currents of Alaska's Cook Inlet, this "monopod" drilling rig owned by Marathon Oil Company and Union Oil Company of California is positioned over the partner's discovery well at the...
Title taken from label on matting. View of United States Navy base at Sitka, Alaska, with Alaska Steamship Company S.S. Denali in center, communications antennae in background, and buildings in foreground. Sign on ship reads: "Union Oil Co."...
Title taken from information with photo. Aerial view of Union Oil Company oil drilling operation near Soldotna, Alaska, with Cook Inlet in background. Sept. 9, 1959. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 5" x 7".
Title taken from information with photo. Aerial view of Union Oil Company oil drilling operation near Soldotna, Alaska, with oil rig, vehicles, trailers, and buildings. Sept. 9, 1959. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 5" x 7".
The world's first single-leg drilling platform, called a monopod, was designed for Marathon Oil company and its partner to be used in developing the Trading Bay Field in Alaska. Seven foot model shows portions of the com=lately equipped platform...
Pontoons were flooded to settle the platform to permanent position some 60 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska, and three miles from the west shore of Cook Inlet. Submarine pipe lines connected to the pontoons carry to shore where the 20%...
The first leg of the monopod's journey to Cook Inlet, Alaska, required precise maneuvering under numerous bridges across the Columbia River. Pontoons, 24' in diameter by 174', which provided floatation, now rest on the inlet floor and have storage...
The platform was christened "The Trading Bay". After launching it was towed 2,000 miles via the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean to Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Design by Brown & Root of Houston and built at American Pipe and Construction Company at Vancouver, Wash., shipyards, the Trading Bay platform was towed to its permanent location in Cook Inlet, Alaska, for completion. The rugged jacket section was...