Photograph
U-9 — Oil Field Pumping
| Subject: "U-9 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Koch & Ellis, Balter Bldg., New Orleans, La. Used with Viking turbine pump. The 5,000 bbl. barges are used to transport crude oil and products to the Mississippi delta area. In one instance the load was pumped to a sugar refinery through a 2-inch line, 3,500 yards long, in the rather unusual time of 3 hours. The power units drive the pumps through a Fuller transmission. This is required, since the viscosity of the oil varies so much. Other factors affecting the load on the pump are the size of the pipe, the length of the pipe, the temperature and the amount of life necessary. Pressure may run as high as 125 lbs. per sq. inch. Koch and Ellis have 4 International engines on their barges. No oil is consumed between normal changes, and it consumes but eight gallons of fuel per hour. The photographs show the barge at a refinery dock at Chalmette, Louisiana." |
| Image ID: | 139016 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1950 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Chalmette |
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| State: | Louisiana |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company public relations and advertising microfilm cards, circa 1950-1959 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | transparency, black and white |
| Original Format Number: | M93-122, Box 2 |
| Original Dimensions: | 1.375 x 1.375 inches |
| See also Image ID: 134805 |
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| Hats |
| Petroleum industry and trade |
| Pumping machinery |
| Machinery |
| Men |
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| Water |
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