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Canadian Powerplant for Arabian Oil, Big 6,000-horsepower industrial gas turbine is lowered gently by Harry Rudge (at controls) and Joe Chapman into o(...)
Canadian Powerplant for Arabian Oil, Big 6,000-horsepower industrial gas turbine is lowered gently by Harry Rudge (at controls) and Joe Chapman into o(...)

Canadian Powerplant for Arabian Oil, Big 6,000-horsepower industrial gas turbine is lowered gently by Harry Rudge (at controls) and Joe Chapman into o(...)

Date6/21/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Canadian Powerplant for Arabian Oil; Big 6;000-horsepower industrial gas turbine is lowered gently by Harry Rudge (at controls) and Joe Chapman into one of three Toronto-made crude oil pumping units destined for the Persian Gulf. Orenda Ltd. got the $2.5 million contract from Dubai Petroleum Co. Turbines; operating on natural gas will pump oil to tankers from undersea tanks which are submerged about 30 miles off shore.
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