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Oil Fields, Pipe Laying and Pumping Stations
B.O.C. pipeline from Yenaungyaung to Syriam
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Yenangyaung
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Yenangyaung (1900's )
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B.O.C. fields at Yenangyaung c. 1930
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Yenangyaung (1900's )
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Yenangyaung c. 1900
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B.O.C. Chauk fields, c. 1939
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Lanywa Wells ( early 1900's ) from the I.F.C. collection
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Yenangyaung c 1900
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Elephant helping the B.O.C. load a tank
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B.O.C., Nyounghla Club, (at oilfields)
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B.O.C., Nyounghla Club, (at oilfields)
This photo taken at Nyounghla Club says - Christmas morning. Second row from front, Weva is fourth from left with C.W. Armstrong on his left. Far right in that row are G.W. Lepper, with glasses and Marr Grieve.) |
The photos below are courtesy of Fiona Thorburn, whose father Robert Douglas Thorburn,
was an Assistant Pipe Line Superintendent with Burmah Oil during the 1920's & 30's.
was an Assistant Pipe Line Superintendent with Burmah Oil during the 1920's & 30's.
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Opening up for extension of No. 2 Line Bwetchyi Chaung, south bank, 1925
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Bwetchyi Chaung 1928
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Bwetchyi Chaung,1928
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Taungwin Chaung Pipe bending
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Ditch through Taungwin Chaung
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Diversion at bend
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(Murdock?) Getting No. 9 Polsometer down to it
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Before lowering Diversion and lines
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Murdock - having a look around
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Carting pipes through Sinaing Chaung
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Carting pipes Sinaing Chaung
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Carting pipes Sinaing Chaung. Prome Road
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Main Pipe Line Sitkwin Chaung Span
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Diversion
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Main Pipe Line Relays, Miles 41-43, 1925
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Main Pipe Line at Pyugwin
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Goberdawnaw, Raibarie and David, 1925-6
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Oil field, North ...
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No. 1 pumping house, Nyaunchla
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No. 1 pumping house, Nyaunchla
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No. 1 Pumping St. N.L.A. reservoirs
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No. 2 Pumping St. Kanhla
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I. McMuir, Pump House, No. 2 Pumping St. Konhla
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Khodaung Oilfield, 1924
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Main Pipe Line, Thazi
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Thittabwe Water Pump House
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Thittabwe Artesian well & boilers
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Ma..chla Shore
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The line across the mullah where the 3 clamps are M. 59 2/4ths
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