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Photographer: Kerr-McGee Caption: First Offshore Oil Well being drilled af Rig 15 in 1947
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"...At the heart of Kerr-McGee’s Rig 16 was the drilling ‘tender,’ a converted U.S. Navy YF barge christened the Frank Phillips.... " (Offshore Magazine online. Photo Courtesy of Kerr-McGee) Submitted: September 24, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland. Database Locator Identification Number: p129281 File Size: 0.005 Megabytes
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