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A major offshore oil rig construction yard, located on the intracoastal waterway at Ingleside, across the bay from Corpus Christi. This is the larger of two yards in the area owned by the Gulf Island Fabrication company, based in Houma, Louisiana. The North Yard is a near Aransas Pass, three miles...
This is a major oil rig construction yard, built on Corpus Christi Ship Bay in Ingleside in 2001 by Kiewitt Offshore. The yard is 400 acres, and has an unusually large crane, the Heavy Lifting Device, which is capable of lifting up to 13,000 tons. Kiewit is a large construction company that builds...
This is one of the most productive oil fields in the country, and for 86 years it was owned by the federal government as part of the National Petroleum Reserve. In 1998, it was sold to Occidental petroleum for $3.65 billion, the largest federal divestiture in American history. The National...
One of a few major oilfields in the country that have been set aside as reserves, to be used only in the event of a national crisis or shortage. Called "naval" reserves, as they were established initially as fuel supplies for naval ships. This reserve site was made famous by the "Teapot Dome"...
This is the nation's most productive single oil field, and the main reason for the creation of the Alaskan Pipeline, which starts here, and terminates in Valdez, Alaska, 800 miles away. With an estimated 13 billion barrels of recoverable oil, Prudhoe Bay is twice as large as the next largest oil...