1975 Press Photo Colin Smith, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Eric Drake, Chairman BP Oil

The Queen Presses The Button to Start Britain's Oil Flowing Ashore from The North Sea: Today the Queen symbolically inaugurated Britain's new oil era by pressing a button in a control room at Dyce, near Aberdeen, thus launching the flow of oil from the Forties Field in the North Sea to BP's Grangemouth refinery 237 miles away. Photo shows: Mr. Colin Smith, Senior Production Supervisor, points out a feature of the control system which monitors the oil from the Forties Field to the Grangemouth Refinery, to H.M. The Queen and Sir Eric Drake, Chairman of B.P.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 11-11-1975.



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