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 Mr_Fiend
 
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
Infiltration Expert...
 |  |  | Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
< on 11/18/2011 1:48 AM >
|  | | | Spanning over a large hilly area and deep in the woods, the Tydol refinery was built in the early 1900's and shutdown in 1954.
All that remains of the refinery are a few buildings, foundations and furnaces for the crude stills. All the processing units were removed along time ago, sadly.
Tidewater, a national company, built this refinery in the Drumright area. The refinery was the center of the Tydol community, spawning a school house, grocery store and neighborhoods. When the Tydol refinery closed, many of the houses were moved out or torn down. The Tydol community virtually disappeared.
Tidewater Oil Company (Tydol) was a major petroleum refining and marketing company in the U.S. for more than 80 years.
Many of these old refinery ruins are scattered all over the state, and VERY hard to find. This is one of the better examples. It still has its crude stills, which went extinct in the refining buisness decades ago, they are very rare to see still intact.
This was my fourth visit, and I suspect there are still some more things hidden deep in the woods.
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18. Inside an ash pit inside one of the stills
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https://abandonedo...bout/the-aok-team/ |
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RickDanger
Location: Houston Area
Gender: Male
| | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 1 on 11/18/2011 1:52 AM >
| | | | Gorgeous -- I have worked for O&G industry for many years -- Love seeing the old stuff --
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dwtaylor999
 
Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 2 on 11/18/2011 1:59 AM >
| | | | Very nice. I love this kind of stuff. I'm surprised how much is intact Great shots!
Ruins, the fate of all cities. |
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MrSivalls
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I'll be a-surfin' in yer blood on Saturday night
| | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 3 on 11/18/2011 2:02 AM >
| | | | nice.
Your security measures were inadequate.
How unfortunate for you. |
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cdevon
   
Location: west county
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 4 on 11/18/2011 3:28 AM >
| | | | yes very nice!
When I say I'm 'clean and sober', it means I've showered and I'm headed to the liquor store. |
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Explorer Zero
  
| | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 5 on 11/18/2011 4:35 AM >
| | | | great find fiend
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Imbroglio
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
| | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 6 on 11/18/2011 5:07 AM >
| | | | Excellent find, and a sprawling complex too, from the looks of it on Bing Maps.
It may have shutdown in '54, but that glass door on the front of the office building suggest it's been utilized a lot more recently than that.
http://www.noelkernsphotography.com |
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Billy
 
Location: Oklahoma City
Gender: Male
Penetration connoisseur
| |  | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 7 on 11/18/2011 7:54 AM >
| | | | Agreed great stuff here man. You do a fine job if I do say so.
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Mr_Fiend
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
Infiltration Expert...
| | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 8 on 11/18/2011 2:36 PM >
| | | | Posted by Imbroglio
It may have shutdown in '54, but that glass door on the front of the office building suggest it's been utilized a lot more recently than that.
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You would be correct. Part of that building was used as a small commercial sound studio several years ago. Now I do believe that building is for sale.
https://abandonedo...bout/the-aok-team/ |
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yeya
Location: La La Land, TX
Gender: Female
| | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 9 on 11/19/2011 12:13 AM >
| | | | Awesome find and great pics! I really like #17 and 16, vines growing up the sides of buidlings always fascinates me.
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
| |  | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 10 on 11/19/2011 2:33 AM >
|  | | | Very cool. FYI, Tidewater was owned by J. Paul Getty, through his ownership of Mission Corp.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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Mr_Fiend
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
Infiltration Expert...
| | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 11 on 11/19/2011 3:25 AM >
| | | | Posted by Jonsered
FYI, Tidewater was owned by J. Paul Getty,
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If there was one person in Tulsa past that I could go back and meet, it would be him. The guy was filthy rich, and built a house in Tulsa designed to take a direct hit from a bomb (if memory serves). It's called the "bunker". Rumor has it there is an entrance to a tunnel system he constructed in the basement of that house that leads all over town. The house is abandoned too....
https://abandonedo...bout/the-aok-team/ |
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
| | | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 12 on 11/19/2011 3:30 AM >
| | | | I hadb't heard that, I had heard he had a bunker at the airport where Spartan Aircraft were made. Interesting. I wonder if there is some legend involved. Check it out!
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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Ghostofthelens
Location: Pearland, Tx.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 13 on 11/19/2011 5:21 AM >
| | | | Excellent find Mr Fiend. I'd like to check that one out myself.
Futurus partum par fabrica |
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KingJalopy
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
I love manholes
| |  | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 14 on 11/19/2011 9:20 PM >
| | | | Good job man, wish I could do some exploring one of these days.
Drains, drains, drains, drains, drains. |
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CaJuN
Location: with your sister
Gender: Male
not just a future. a brighter future... underground.
| | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 15 on 11/21/2011 6:18 PM >
| | | | nice shots man... thats a really neat location... i know where there a couple of old natural gas plants, but they're way out west nearly to tx...
| Good job man, wish I could do some exploring one of these days. |
i almost called you saturday when i went down to okc to meet up with billy, but i know youre pretty busy these days...
"I think it's fair to say that, if anybody puts their mind to it, they can breach any kind of security — and that certainly seems to be the case here" |
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KingJalopy
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
I love manholes
| | | Re: Refinery ruins (lots of pics)
<Reply # 16 on 11/22/2011 1:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by CaJuN
nice shots man... thats a really neat location... i know where there a couple of old natural gas plants, but they're way out west nearly to tx...
i almost called you saturday when i went down to okc to meet up with billy, but i know youre pretty busy these days...
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Ah, but I am now married, so the busyness has almost died down. if it weren't for these damn holidays..
Drains, drains, drains, drains, drains. |
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