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[News Clip: Gas Wells]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about oil drilling near Bridgeport at a location called "Morris-Gill Number One."
Date: September 16, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Woods #1", Oil Well]

Description: Photograph of industrial implements around a large oil well in Midland, Texas. Notes on the back indicate that the well is being re-fracked. Numerous trucks loaded with equipment are piped to each other in front of the well. Caption on the back: "Woods #1 5/56 Re-Frac. 40,000 gals @ 3# sd. Cost about $12,000. Tubing standing in work-over rig. Dowells 6 or $800,000 worth of equipment Not all equipment shown 4-500 Bbl. tanks not shown. Tank batter right hand (upper corner." [sic]
Date: May 1956
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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