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Title: Mobil oil drilling platform
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The West Coast's first mobile oil drilling platform is shown as it was towed to position a mile and a half offshore near Huntington Beach. The $2,000,000 platform, measuring 200 by 100 feet with 195-foot caissons, was built by Offshore Constructors, Inc., for Monterey Oil Co. exploration of offshore leases. Photo dated: November 27, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037061
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040067
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12049
Subject: Monterey Oil Company
Offshore Constructors, Inc
Oil fields--California--Huntington Beach
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Huntington Beach
Drilling platforms--California--Huntington Beach
Offshore oil well drilling--California--Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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