Main intersection at a Hollywood oilfield. 
"This is the set where they shot 'Hello, Dolly!’ 
What you can’t see is us pumping oil behind it.” 
“One of the strangest places I 
ever produced oil,” says Gulf Pro- 
duction Superintendent Eddie 
Culbertson, “was right here in 
Los Angeles, in the back lot of 
the 20th Century-Fox studio. 
“They found an oil field right 
under a permanent set being 
used for shooting the movie 
‘Hello, Dolly!’ in 1969. 
The indirect approach 
“How do you get at the oil 
without disturbing the set, the 
streets, or the 
buildings? 
With a tech- 
nique called 
“\Xt showed them hou 
they could hat e their 
oil and their movies.' 
directional drilling. The oil is as 
far as one mile from the surface 
location of the drill sites, which 
were hidden by the scenery. 
“Directional drilling has other 
advantages. You can drill 20 or 30 
wells from just one drill site. Or 
you can drill for some offshore 
oil without 
putting the 
“ Behind the scenery 
are 22 producing 
oil wells. 
drilling rig right in the water. 
Keep America beautiful 
“Sometimes it’s a real chal- 
lenge getting the oil without 
spoiling the landscape. Direc- 
tional drilling is one way to 
do it. 
“But there are other ways, and 
at Gulf we’re using all of them — 
doing all we can to keep supply- 
ing energy for tomorrow.” 
Gulf people: 
energy for tomorrow. 
Gulf Oil Corporation. 
