Oral History Interview with William Tucker, September 25, 1985 Page: 3
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some naval research. Interestingly enough, it involved
submarine diesel propulsion. We worked on the exhaust
dispersal. We had one "fish" swimming, but we were overtaken
by nuclear subs. We would have had a fleet of diesel,-powered
submarines in the war if the nuclear hadn't been developed.
Actually, it would have been after the war; we couldn't have
gotten anything into service fast enough in the wartime.
But nuclear propulsion was developed, and our system,--which
did work--was, obsolete before it really was practical.
So I- started with Standard Oil of California during
wartime and worked on the butadiene project, which. was synthetic
rubber. We designed a plant which. was, owned by the Defense
Plant Corporation and operated in El Segundo in Standard
Oil of California. Then fairly early on, I began working
on things- which were ultimately related to Caltex. One was
the Ryas Tanura refinery, as a design engineer from California,
and then the Bahrain refinery.
Which, was the first one? I'm sorry, I didn't catch that.
Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. In those, days it was California
Arabian Standard Oil Company, which eventually became Aramco.
They built a refinery in Ras Tanura. So I worked on that,and J% worked on designs of the aviation project at the
Bahrain refinery, in those early days. In the midst of the
work on the Bahrain refinery project, I got shipped back
to New, York for thirty days and stayed for sixty, and thenMarcello:
Tucker:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Tucker, William. Oral History Interview with William Tucker, September 25, 1985, book, September 25, 1985; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137858/m1/5/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.