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Located a few meters from the first oil well discovered in 1932 near Jebel Dukhan, or "Mountain of Smoke", at Sakhir, the Oil Museum was officially inaugurated in 1992.
It houses old drilling equipment, samples of rocks found underground, topographical maps and some information about the companies that had participated in the exploration for oil. Bahrain was the first country to discover oil in the Arabian Gulf region.
You really must make the effort to visit this interesting little museum. It’s a long way out of town, in the midst of the Bahrain oil fields at the foot of Jebel Dukhan (also known as the Mountain of Smoke, because of the mist in which it is sometimes shrouded). If you’ve never seen an oil field, with rust-coloured pipelines of every diameter zigzagging across the desert, the trip is interesting. The whole area smells of crude oil, or as one writer put it, the smell of money. The turn-off for the museum is signposted from Zallaq Highway. If you don’t have your own car, the easiest way to visit this area is by hire car. It is definitely not a good idea to go by taxi; you will find that many local taxis have meters that are not working or hidden behind tissue boxes, and quite often drivers who are unable or unwilling to travel outside the city. Perhaps the best way to visit this museum, however, is to take one of the commercial tours. Theoretically the museum is open from 10:00 to 17:00 on Thursdays and Fridays, but it is advisable to phone before you set out, just to make sure. Inside there is a fascinating collection of objects related to oil exploration and a wonderful photographic history of the early development of the oil industry in Bahrain. There is a working model of an oil rig and several display cabinets of geological samples. One of the most interesting exhibits is a home-made, gas-powered fan, with beaten copper blades. It must have been awfully hot living in a tent in the middle of the desert back in the early 30s! All the exhibits are well documented and there is a small covered carpark outside the museum beside which you can see Oil Well Number One, the first well which started pumping out oil in 1932
Macro study of drops of oil floating in water. Taken with macro extensions tubes on a 24-105mm lens.
Ex MOD Army penknife manufactured in 1954. This has been my only penknife, which I received at the age of 12. Never being a boy scout it's not been kept in my pocket, it's always resided in a draw ready and waiting to remove a bottle top or cut a piece of string. "Knife"... "Looking close on Friday"...
Truth will rise above falsehood
as oil above water.
(Miguel de Cervantes)
Looking close... on Friday! - Oil on Water
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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This Monday's Macro theme of oil on water didn't inspire. I imagined too many coloured blobs next to each other. So it was rather late on Monday night I thought I would give it a last minute try.
And raiding the kitchen cupboards I found: Primadonna Olive Oil, some Honey mustard dressing with blossom honey and Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil, lightly sprayed with Fry Light 1 cal Sunflower Oil (which for some reason came out bright green)…....and a little stir. Oh, and some coloured LED lights around the base of the glass bowl. It got messy and the damned things didn't stay still, but I got this. Unfortunately I think there may be some ground black pepper in there too. Tasty picture?
Thanks Eiona Roberts for the idea (it’s not as good as yours) but had to upload something today. So typical that it’s been a glorious day and I’ve been working!....
After a wonderful summer evening train watching on the East Coast Main Line at Burn, Selby, I hung around until well after sunset. I'd noticed this class 60 oil working on Railcam earlier in the evening heading down towards York and decided to wait for this before heading home. The sun had set a good half an hour before arrival and I didn't expect to get any useable photograph, I have slightly cheated however to create this, its a blend of a high ISO (ISO1250 1/400 F4.5) to stop the train and a low IS for the rest of the scene (ISO100 1/20 F4.5).
60010 working 6Z43 Jarrow Shell to Immingham Lindsey Oil Refinery, 22nd July 2019.
"What if the clouds one short dark night, hide the blue sky until morn appears when the bright sun that cheers soon again will rise to shine upon earth for endless years." Ralph Albert Blakelock.
Oil on paper.
A detail from one of Tom Lakenen's great sculptures at Lakenenland, between Marquette and Munising. The base of the sculpture says Underneath it says $$$ on the left and "Priceless" on the right.
More shots from playing with oil, water and food colouring. I used 2 types of oil, olive and vegetable. This is always fun to do it just took a freezing day to pull out all the supplies.
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Oil in water shot with coloured gels.
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Week 11: Something I've Never Photographed Before (March 12-18)
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Well the theme challenge this week was to photograph something I never photographed before. Thinking.... Ah, the basement!
I rarely go into the basement, except for during the Spring and Summer. I go there to turn the water on and off for the hose when I need to water the garden... that is about it.
It's the home of power tools, the furnace and oil tank as well as the water pump, sump pump and a variety of gardening items. There are also the things that go there to be forgotten.
So I went down to the basement.
There before my wandering eyes I spied the new oil tank. It had been installed this past fall, but I had not been down to see it and there it was! It looked oddly new and sort of shiny. Perfect. Mission accomplished. I think that was too easy.
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71/365 -Around the house - Day 71
"We could not turn our eyes from the limitless expanse of water, but the terrible machines of war proved thirstier than we, and so the black sludge beneath the waves had to be brought to the surface. Just as the spice was the key to the control of Arrakis, so was oil for this new planet."
- from The Water of a Thousand Worlds, by Farok, Bashar of the Ninth Legion.
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Macro photography of a few drops of oil on water.