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C.G. Glasscock Drilling Company's mobile platform, "Mr. Gus II" drilling on lease OCS 0134, block 48, Grand Isle area, off Louisiana. 1957.

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1957

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C.G. Glasscock Drilling Company's mobile platform, "Mr. Gus II" drilling on lease OCS 0134, block 48, Grand Isle area, off Louisiana. The barge and drilling equipment cost more than $7 million, contains 16 million pounds of steel and in transit has a displacement of 13,000 tons and a draft of about 25 feet. The barge is capable of drilling to a depth exceeding limitation of casing and drill pipe presently in use in water depth of 150 feet. The upper platform measures 104 feet by 173 feet and lower platform, or mat, 180 feet by 235 feet. The four steel columns are 235 feet long and 10 feet in diameter. Steel pipes 130 feet long and 7 feet in diameter are driven inside the four columns to give the barge greater stability when drilling [...]

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U.S. Geological Survey
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Patterson, E.F.

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number photoLibrary 28304
batch photoLibrary btch331
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