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First Pacific Coast Permanent Drilling Island Modified to Allow Drilling of 70 Wells

The first permanent drilling island constructed on the Pacific Coast is now being modified to provide surface locations for the drilling of a total of 70 wells, The small circular Monterey Oil Co.- The Texas Co. filled island, 1 1/2 miles offshore from Seal Beach. was originally designed for the drilling of only three wells. Now, through the construction of a raised floor to provide additional cellars, this small island is expected to provide adequate surface drilling sites from which to develop the lease. When this modification has been completed, about the end of this year, the little island will provide probably the densest concentration of drilling sites anywhere in the world. The circular island is 75 ft in diameter and is located in 45 ft of water. A rectangular wharf 74 ft by 51 ft extends shoreward from the island. A group of four pipelines connects the island to a separation and shipping center onshore. Nine wells have been drilled from the island to date, and the tenth one is now being drilled. The outer rim of the island is formed of interlocking sheet steel piling driven into the ocean floor to a depth of 15 to 20 ft. The interior is filled with rock and sand. A series of parallel reinforced concrete beams across the island carries the working load. Each beam is supported by a line of wood piling. The reinforced concrete floor rests on the beams and sand fill. The construction of the raised floor above the original concrete floor is now in progress. Through this addition the island, which was once considered supplemental only, will become a very valuable surface property from which to develop the extensive oil reservoir. The operators have spend approximately $750,000 in connection with island construction. Early History of the Lease In 1944 the Marine Exploration Co., one of the predecessors in interest of Monterey Oil Co. and The Texas Co., obtained rights to drill for oil offshore at Seal Beach by obtaining state lease which was the predecessor of the present State Lease PRC 186.1. This lease begins at the Seal Beach shoreline and extends 3 miles seaward. The drilling of the first two wells was done from a land location in the City of Long Beach, County of Los Angeles, 2.500 ft inland front the water's edge.

Bahrains oldtidshovedstad

Bahrains oldtidshovedstad

Answer to “Plaster Under the Tower“

The criticisms from Pohl imply that he has refuted certain contentions which I have made concerning the Newport Tower. I have refrained from anything beyond comment on his various statements.1. Only three of the columns (N, NE, E) rest on circular stones. The stone on which the SE column rests is only partially circular, the missing portion being chinked out with smaller stones. The other four columns rest on “plinths” (see point 3 below) which are composed of many small stones (Means, 1942, and personal observation).2. The stones, and the column bases, are very close to 4’ in diameter, and probably were 4’ in diameter when the mortar coating which originally covered them was in place.3. Pohl's discussion of plinths is completely immaterial. The columns did not stand on plinths, but on drums 18” high, which are now buried in the soil with the exception of their top stones. We were able to identify the original floor level in 1949, and to determine that the original floor surface was gravel (Godfrey, 1950b, 1951). The drums were mortared and plastered (or whitewashed) down to this floor.

Research Items

A report on the continued excavation of Kent's Cavern, Torquay, presented at Aberdeen by a Research Committee of Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association, states that an area of 160 sq. ft. of floor space, one half of which is beneath the ‘Black Band’ Magdalenian hearth worked by W. Pengelly between 1865 and 1880, has been excavated, the greatest depth reached being 10 ft. 6 in. below the general floor and 16 ft. below the old stalagmite floor. Remains of large animals were found between large fallen blocks of limestone. The animals usually found in the cave were present in good number, including horse, rhinoceros, deer, Irish deer, bear, fox, ox, badger, pine-marten and mammoth. Among the more interesting finds were three foot bones of deer, tall articulating, three vertebrae of (—) rhinoceros in correct relation, a first phalanx of a human finger, 2 ft. below floor level, eight flint implements, a flint core, 3 in. by 2 in. by 2J in., at a depth of 13 ft. 6 in. below the original floor level, small tines of deer, probably used as borers, and a quartzite pounder.

Note on the Fragment of a Painted Pinax from Praesos

On p. 240 sqq. of the B.S.A. Annual, vol. viii., Mr. R. C. Bosanquet has described a tomb opened by him at Praesos during the excavations of 1901. The tomb had originally been of the ‘beehive’ type though the upper portion had been broken before the excavators opened it. The layer of earth constituting the original floor of the tomb was covered to a depth of nearly two feet with a tightly packed deposit of broken pottery, whilst in a small vestibule leading into the tomb from the dromos a few better preserved vases were found. Owing to the confusion caused by the later use of the tomb and by the fall of the roofing stones it is difficult to make out any stratification in the deposit, but on the analogy of the Menidi tomb Mr. Bosanquet would explain the large quantity of pottery found here as the result of a long period of hero-worship. The bulk of the pottery is of the Geometric period and comprises a sequence of at least several generations. Nothing of indisputably Mycenaean date was found in the tomb, and the latest objects that came to light were two small fragments of red-figure ware.