1967 Press Photo Man installs offshore oil well protective jacket in Mississippi

Off to the Gulf, 20 miles southeast of the Mississippi Delta this week was this huge cage, a protective jacketE for offshore well. Designed by Shell Oil Company, the cage is 357 feet long, weighs 3,200 tons and will stand in 340 feet of water to protect 18 wells to be drilled from the platform. Jacket took seven months to build at McDermott Fabricating Company in Amelia, Louisiana, and will take 45 days to install. Attached at one end, in circle, is a shoe., a 70-foot long device which will be used to bend a 12 inch pipeline from the sea floor. Close-up shows man sitting in shoe, the curved structure at bottom of cage. Shoe was constructed in Houston. Shoe is instrumented for remote supervision of pipe bending operation, eliminating need for divers.

Photo is dated 1967.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.