Oil Well Fire in Altamont

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Title Oil Well Fire in Altamont
Identifier 6025T
Subject Fires
Description September 7th, an explosion occurred at the Chevron-King Silver-Evans well five miles west of Altamont sending flames 100 feet into the air and a massive ball of smoke. Metal shields were fabricated to pretect operators of the high vollume water spray nozzles used to cool the oil rig structure.
Publisher Uintah County Library Regional History Center
Date 1971-09-08
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Tiff archival master
Language eng
Rights Management Digital image, copyright 2011 Uintah County Library
Source Physical Dimensions 6 cm x 6 cm
Archival Resolution 1200 dpi, 3674 x 2548 pixels
Low Resolution 800 x 600 pixels
Bit Depth 8
Scanning Device Epson Perfection 4870
Scanning Technician Elaine Carr
Spatial Coverage Duchesne County (Utah)
Donor Rhoda Deved
Source Material B&W Negative Film
ARK ark:/87278/s61p1gct
Setname ucl_tp
ID 408452
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61p1gct
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