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Illustrations 1 Bellaire Research Center in Houston 24 2 Laying cable for seismic recording at Grand Lake, Louisiana, 1949 32 3 Barge drilling in South Louisiana 34 4 Significant Shell Oil fields offshore Louisiana 48 5 South Pass 24 field production platforms, early 1950s 51 6 Shell Oil’s East Bay Central Facilities, 1950s 57 7 ODECO’s Mr. Charlie submersible drilling vessel undergoing sea trials, circa 1954 59 8 Shell Oil’s Delta Pipeline, laid in 1958 67 9 Glasscock Drilling Company’s Mr. Gus II jack-up drilling vessel 70 10 Managers at Shell Oil who served as head of E&P Economics 79 11 The Blue Water 1 semi-submersible on its maiden voyage, 1960 86 12 Scale mode of Blue Water 1 and RUDAC underwater wellhead system 89 13 Shell Oil engineer Ron Geer speaking at Shell’s “school for industry,” 1963 97 14 Shell Oil’s West Delta 133-A platform after being hit by the Blue Water 1, 1965 103 15 Shell Oil icebreaker platform in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, late 1960s 112 16 Gulf of Mexico seismic vessel setting off a dynamite charge, 1950s 125 17 The seismic section of Shell Oil’s “Posy” prospect showing a bright spot amplitude 131 18 One Shell Plaza, Houston, Texas 142 19 Bay Marchand Blowout, December 1970 146 20 Hubbert’s Peak graph 157 21 Senator Henry Jackson criticizing Shell Oil advertisement on oil company profits 160 22 John Bookout 174 23 One Shell Square, New Orleans, Louisiana 185 24 Shell Oil’s first Central Offshore Engineering Group, 1965 188 25 Towout of Cognac platform base section, July 1977 198 26 Workmen lower piling to nail down Cognac base 200 27 Shell Oil’s Alaska offshore leases, 1980s 212 28 The launching of the Shell America(IT) seismic vessel, 1984 224 29 Bullwinkle platform before launching, May 31, 1988 238 30 Mars tension-leg platform towed through Corpus Christi ship channel 254 31 Schematic diagram of a subsea well system and platform tieback 260 viii Illustrations ...