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Slide 1 of 18: Appalachian Storage Hub (ASH) Project. The Role of Petroleum Geology and Salt Production on Manufacturing and Development in the Appalachian Basin. Slide 2 of 18: Dr. Israel Charles (I.C.) White, circa 1898, the first State Geologist of West Virginia, and the contents page of the Natural Gas Journal, 1911. Slide 3 of 18: An engraving of the Temple of the Sun at Nineveh and a photograph of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, where bitumen was used as mortar. Slide 4 of 18: An old map and a satellite photograph of the Island of Zante, Greece, where asphaltic oil was gathered in ancient times. Slide 5 of 18: The fire temple at Baku on the Caspian Sea, where natural gas fed the altar of the Fire Worshipers, and a woman from Baku, 1897. Slide 6 of 18: The title page of Sagard's History of Canada (1632), the earliest written account of petroleum in America, and a wooded oil seep. Slide 7 of 18: An 1837 survey map of the ancient earthworks at Marietta, Ohio, with photographs of a boulder carved with animal and human figures, a carved rock face, and a stone tablet carved with a face. Slide 8 of 18: George Washington's 1775 survey of the land around the burning spring on the Great Kanawha River. Slide 9 of 18: Salt works on the Kanawha River and a salt well, where large flows of natural gas were struck in 1841 and 1843. Slide 10 of 18: Early chemical workers at Clendenin, George Curme's patent drawing for making ethylene, and his quote on ethylene as the starting material for an organic chemical industry. Slide 11 of 18: A 1940 display of Kanawha Valley industry, ending with a picture of natural gas liquids stored at minus 250 degrees. Slide 12 of 18: The West Virginia Ordnance Works at Point Pleasant during World War II, a wartime poster, and a bunker that still holds TNT. Slide 13 of 18: The electrolytic caustic soda plant at Natrium, Marshall County, built in 1942 to dissolve Silurian salt from wells more than 7,000 feet deep, and its machinery. Slide 14 of 18: Rows of equipment inside a long plant building, and an exhibit called Chains and Rings: A Story of the Composition of Petroleum, with shelves of sample bottles grouped as paraffins, naphthenes and aromatics. Slide 15 of 18: Consumer products developed at the Union Carbide Tech Center in South Charleston, such as trash bags, batteries and antifreeze. Slide 16 of 18: Union Carbide's Flash Gordon comic book: Flash Gordon as Plastics representative of the outer worlds. Slide 17 of 18: An aerial photograph of a 21st-century Marcellus Shale well pad (the MSEEL well). Slide 18 of 18: A proposed site plan for an ethane cracker plant, with George O. Curme Jr.'s quote on ethylene as the starting material for an organic chemical industry.
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