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"Standard Oil Refinery, Pascagoula, Mississippi...Representing the latest in research and engineering techniques, is the largest grassroots refinery built in the United States in recent years, with a capacity in excess of 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day. The refinery is fed by 150 miles of 20-inch pipeline (100 miles of which is laid on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico) from a pump station and tank farm in the mouth of the Mississippi River." Aerial view. Side 1.

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  • Item: 143
  • Description: "Standard Oil Refinery, Pascagoula, Mississippi...Representing the latest in research and engineering techniques, is the largest grassroots refinery built in the United States in recent years, with a capacity in excess of 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day. The refinery is fed by 150 miles of 20-inch pipeline (100 miles of which is laid on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico) from a pump station and tank farm in the mouth of the Mississippi River." Aerial view. Side 1.
  • Creator(s): Reeves, Wallace
  • Date: 1965
  • City/State: Pascagoula, Mississippi
  • County: Jackson County
  • Call Number: PI/2008.0001
  • Filename: 120562-photo-1.tif