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Weatherford International nodding donkey pump in Bahrain. Weatherford International was established in 1987. The company's [3] roots date back to 1941 when Jesse E. Hall Sr. [4] founded the Weatherford Spring Company in Weatherford, Texas. Weatherford today consists of the consolidation of more than 300 acquisitions since its establishment.
A pumpjack is the overground drive for a reciprocating piston pump in an oil well. [ 1 ] It is used to mechanically lift liquid out of the well if there is not enough bottom hole pressure for the liquid to flow all the way to the surface. The arrangement is often used for onshore wells. Pumpjacks are common in oil-rich areas.
The Kimmeridge 1 well site, is a small site, with a single beam pump or "nodding donkey" which has been pumping continually since 1961, making it the oldest working oil pump in the UK. [2] The well once produced 350 barrels per day, but currently yields around 65 barrels per day (10.3 m 3 /d) from the Jurassic strata that lie around 350 metres ...
Known colloquially as the Nodding Donkey, this class of pump is used in onshore oil fields around the world. Height 12 inches. Manual Boiler Feed Pump Hand cranked, 3 ⁄ 8-inch bore, 5 ⁄ 8-inch stroke, 4.5 inches long. Pillar Drill 9-inch-high miniature pillar drill for the model workshop. Lathe 8.5-inch-long miniature lathe for the model ...
Eakring Mill was a five-storey brick tower windmill, built some time after 1840 (grid reference SK673628). The sails were removed in 1912 and the mill was derelict by 1936. It was converted into a house in about 1995. [6] A windmill was shown on a map of 1832, located in Mill Hill Field, where two footpaths cross, (grid reference SK668616) and ...
The Long Beach Oil Field is a large oil field underneath the cities of Long Beach and Signal Hill, California, in the United States. Discovered in 1921, the field was enormously productive in the 1920s, with hundreds of oil derricks covering Signal Hill and adjacent parts of Long Beach; largely due to the huge output of this field, the Los ...
Be Quick or Be Dead. " Be Quick or Be Dead " is a song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released as the first single from their ninth studio album, Fear of the Dark, on 13 April 1992. The single peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and in Finland while reaching the top 10 in Denmark, Ireland, and Norway.
On the cliff west of the village is the Perenco "nodding donkey" oil pump which has been pumping continually since the late 1950s, making it the oldest working oil pump in the UK. The well currently yields around 65 barrels per day (10.3 m 3 /d) from the Middle Jurassic strata that lie around 1,150 feet (350 m) below the cliff.