Belridge oil field, Bakersfield California, produced 1 billion barrels since 1911.
Bakken, North Dakota, oil pumps and gas flaring.
Apache 33A oil platform off Grand Isle Louisiana, center of Gulf production
Credits for Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, show oil's influence.
Working class neighborhood street leads to refineries, Carson, California
Oil refinery, Carson, California, a center of gasoline production.
Valero refinery, Wilmington (Long Beach)California (digital pan)
Near mile 195 on proposed Keystone XL pipeline route, I-94, Montana.
Proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline crossing point of Yellowstone River, Montana
Abandoned school, new oil pad, Bakken oil field; North Dakota; <1 million barrels/day.
Playground & oil pad. Bakken oil field; North Dakota; <1 million barrels/day.
Bakken oil field; North Dakota; <1 million barrels/day from thousands of wells.
Flaring gas at Bakken oil field; North Dakota, an issue of waste & pollution.
Large gas flare in Bakken oil field, North Dakota.
Night work fracking for oil in Bakken oil field; North Dakota.
Bakken oil field, North Dakota, more than 10,000 wells in operation.
Bakken oil field, North Dakota, lays pipe rapidly to collect gas and oil.
Epping, ND, where 100-tank car trains are loaded to detriment of wheat shipping..
Epping train depot. Bakken oil field moves most of its 1 million barrels/day by rail.
100-car train in Bakken oil field; oil rolls to East, South and increasingly, West
Port Westward on Columbia River Oregon, built for biofuel, now getting crude from the Bakken.
Oil cars in Portland OR, showing difference between old (rear) and new cars with safer construction.
For more information and to license images, please contact us.
©Gary Braasch, Photographer PO Box 1465 Portland, OR 97207 USA USA Phone: 503.860.1228