Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Photograph, Color |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Accession number |
OMC 2022.002 |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2022.002.046 j |
Description |
Photograph removed from sticky photograph album compiled by Rawlings Drilling Company of their business. Colour image of two pumper trucks from Halliburton performing a sand frac on a well. There are five men in coveralls and hard hats completing the job. The Haliburton logo is on the equipment. It is the enlargement of photo OMC 2022.002.046 cc. Frac sand is a type of sand with small, uniform particles. It is injected into the rock formation along with the water used to fracture the rock in the process known as hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. The sand is used to prop open the fractures that are created. |
Provenance |
Photo taken of the donor's husband, Stewart Rawlings's family drilling business from Chatham, ON, Rawlings Drilling Company Ltd. David "Stewart" Rawlings is the grandson of International Driller, George Rawlings. After 26 years working internationally, George returned and joined his father-in-law in 1932, Mr. Stover, in his drilling business, Stover Drilling Co. in the Chatham area. After the death of Mr. Stover it became the Rawlings Drilling Co. Stewart and his father, Frank, followed in the family business. |
Print Size |
27cm x 20.3cm |
Search Terms |
Equipment Fracking Halliburton Hydraulic Fracturing Natural Resource Oil & Gas Exploration Oil Drilling Site Oil Equipment Rawlings Drilling Company Tank |