Artifact
First Well at Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
Description
- Showing the first oil well to be drilled on Lake Maracaibo, as part of the La Rosa oil field in Venezuela.
- The steel rig in the foreground is the property of Lago Petroleum Company, purchased from the British Equatorial Petroleum Company Ltd.
Background Information
- Part of a photograph collection belonging to Frederick Thomas Webb who worked in South America in the late 1920s.
Latitude: 9° 48' 56.502" N
Longitude: 70° 56' 1.482" W
Date
Late 1920s
Dimensions
inches
Length:
4.0
Height:
3.0
Events, Places, People
- Fred Webb
- Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
