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Oil drilling platform "The Trading Bay".

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Collection Name	Alaska State Library Subject File. Photographs. ASL.
Identifier	ASL-Industry-Petroleum-CookInlet-09
Title	Oil drilling platform "The Trading Bay".
Description	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 specially designed to withstand grinding force of ice masses moved by rapid-flowing, 30-foot tides.
Creator	Ackroyd Photography Inc.
Subject.TGM	Oil well drilling rigs Construction Waterfronts
Corporate Name	Marathon Oil Corporation Union Oil Company of California
Location	Vancouver (Washington)
Region	Outside Alaska
Time Period	1959 and later
Date.original	1969
Type	Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use	http://library.state.ak.us/vilda_rights.html
Holding Institution	Alaska State Library - Historical Collections, PO Box 110571, Juneau AK 99811-0571; mailto:asl.historical@alaska.gov