Dunbar Well Service | Campbell County Rockpile Museum

Print, Photographic - 2016.001.0057a

Photo 1 in a series of 6 color photos depicting the process of well servicing. A caption included with photo #1 states: "Rig 32 (tall structure) stand 30 miles south of Gillette. The pumping unit - dating from the late 1960s - is at right." Notes included with the photos explain that "Well servicing converts an oil well (or pump well) to a water well" and "Well servicing prepares a well for water flooding, a relatively inexpensive method of pr...

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Print, Photographic - 2016.001.0057b

Photo 2 in a series of 6 color photos depicting the process of well servicing. Notes included with the photos explain that "Well servicing converts and oil well (or pump well) to a water well" and "Well servicing prepares a well for water flooding, a relatively inexpensive method of producing oil which dates from the 1870s. Water flooding displaces oil from subsurface rock formation. Joseph Dunbar, owner of Dunbar Well Service, compares water...

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Print, Photographic - 2016.001.0057c

Photo 3 in a series of 6 color photos depicting the process of well servicing. A caption included with photo #3 states: "(Left to Right) A rig operator, derrick hand, and floor hand ready the tubing through which water will eventually be pumped." Notes included with the photos explain that "Well servicing converts and oil well (or pump well) to a water well" and "Well servicing prepares a well for water flooding, a relatively inexpensive metho...

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Print, Photographic - 2016.001.0057d

Photo 4 in a series of 6 color photos depicting the process of well servicing. A caption included with photo #4 states: "Close up of packer, which is attached to the end of the tubing to isolate it so it doesn't leak. This is necessary, as water will be pushed through the tubing at 2500 psi." Notes included with the photos explain that "Well servicing converts and oil well (or pump well) to a water well" and "Well servicing prepares a well for...

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Print, Photographic - 2016.001.0057e

Photo 5 in a series of 6 color photos depicting the process of well servicing. A caption included with photo #5 states: "A traveling block (top of photo) lifts the tubing into place." Notes included with the photos explain that "Well servicing converts and oil well (or pump well) to a water well" and "Well servicing prepares a well for water flooding, a relatively inexpensive method of producing oil which dates from the 1870s. Water flooding d...

Record Type: Photo

Print, Photographic - 2016.001.0057f

Photo 6 in a series of 6 color photos depicting the process of well servicing. Notes included with the photos explain that "Well servicing converts and oil well (or pump well) to a water well" and "Well servicing prepares a well for water flooding, a relatively inexpensive method of producing oil which dates from the 1870s. Water flooding displaces oil from subsurface rock formation. Joseph Dunbar, owner of Dunbar Well Service, compares water...

Record Type: Photo