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Pete Sitton discusses his work during the Permian Basin oil booms of the 1920s and 1930s. 

==General Interview Information==

'''Interviewee Name:''' Pete Sitton

'''Additional Parties Recorded:''' None

'''Date:''' September 21, 1981

'''Location:''' Lubbock, Texas

'''Interviewer:''' Richard Mason

'''Length:''' 1 hour


==Abstract==

'''Tape 1, Side 1:''' Drilling rigs,
From rotary to cable tool (1920s),
Derricks,
Drilling,
Production,
Construction materials,
Double,
Triple,
Standard,
Wink, Texas,
Rig builders’ strike (1936),
Winkler County, Texas,
Oil fields,
Pyote, Texas (1928),
Monahans, Texas,
Hobbs, New Mexico,
Hendrick Well,
Oil prospecting,
Surface features,
Fort Worth, Texas, area,
Wasson Oil Field (1930s),
George Livermore,
Well drilling (1940s),
Rotary rigs,
Cable tool rigs,
Mud control,
Water control,
Differences in rotary and cable tool drilling,
Oil wells,
Changes,
Oil field workers (early),
Misconceptions about oil.
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'''Tape 1, Side 2:''' Cable tool rigs,
Operation,
Sand pumps,
Odessa, Texas,
Arrival (1932),
Midland Airfield,
Midland-Odessa area,
Population,
Roughnecking (1937),
Lubbock, Texas (1953),
Drilling activity,
Past vs. present,
West Texas,
Oil boom,
Rigs,
Wages (1936).
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'''Range Dates:''' 1920s-1981

'''Bulk Dates:''' 1920s-1953


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