Title taken from verso. View of soil drilling and testing crew at Chandalar Shelf, south of Atigun Pass in Alaska, preparing for Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. Aug. 9, 1970. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
Title taken from verso. Alaska Gulf and Oil Company drilling rig near Knik. Cook Inlet Historical Society trip to Goose Bay, Aug 14th 1955. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
View of Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. View includes trucks, a bulldozer, and a power station. Large building, center left, is the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Image also includes street lights, and either a crane or a drilling...
Image of men working with drilling equipment in front of a building in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Building tentatively identified as Providence Hospital. Printing on the door of the truck reads 1352 United Geophysical. ...
View of men around a drill near the Port of Anchorage in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. View includes cars, trucks, a bus, buildings with the Port in the distance. Knik Arm visible in distance.
Image of men working with drilling equipment in front of a building in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Building tentatively identified as Providence Hospital. Image includes a truck holding a tank.
View of Anchorage, near the railroad terminal and port, taken after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Toward the center, the image shows drilling equipment and men at work. The Anchorage Railroad terminal is seen in the right background. The Port of...
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...
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...
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...