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Sarah Rector was born in 1902 near the all-black town of Taft, located in Indian Territory, which became the eastern portion of Oklahoma. [2] She had five siblings. Her parents were Rose McQueen and husband Joseph Rector (both born 1881), [7] who were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, [8] and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866.
Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
Examples of computer clip art, from Openclipart. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.
Oil- (and synthetic-oil-) based drilling fluids can be used to drill water-sensitive shales in areas with difficult drilling conditions. To add inhibition, emulsified brine phase ( calcium chloride ) drilling fluids are used to reduce water activity and creates osmotic forces to prevent adsorption of water by shales .
Casing head (#27) is a large metal flange welded or screwed onto the top of the conductor pipe (also known as drive-pipe) or the casing and is used to bolt the surface equipment such as the blowout preventers (for well drilling) or the Christmas tree (oil well) (for well production).
Ontario was the centre of the Canadian oil industry in the 19th century. It had the oldest commercial oil well in North America (dug by hand in 1858 at Oil Springs, Ontario, a year before the Drake Well was drilled in Pennsylvania), and having the oldest producing oil field in North America (producing crude oil continuously since 1861). However ...
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Deepwater drilling, [1] or deep well drilling, [2] is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drilling rig for oil extraction under the deep sea. There are approximately 3400 deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico with depths greater than 150 meters.