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ABILENE, TEXAS NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 209 S. Danville 4636 Sanford Street Bldg. C, Suite 107 P.O. Box 73373 Phone: 915-695-7610 Metairie, Louisiana Thel LUFKIN ILine Phone: 504-885-2841 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 2355 Main Street , NEW YORK P.O. Box 141 100 Menlo Park Office Bldg. Winter 1983 • Volume 59 • Number 4 Tucker, Georgia Room 408 Phone: 404-939-3119 Edison, New Jersey Phone: 201-549-1021 BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA 2500 Parker lane ODESSA, TEXAS P.O. Box 10839 Highway 80 East Phone: 805-327-3563 P.O. Box 1632 Phone: 915-563-0363 BALTl MORE, MARYLAND 2003 Rock Spring Road, Suite 2A CITY, OKLAHOMA Forest Hill, Maryland 2300 S. Prospect Phone: 301 -879-9264 P.O. Box 95205 Phone: 405-677-0567 AIR BALANCED CASPER, 610 North Warehouse Road PITISBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA CONVENT IONAL OIL FIELD PUMPING UNITS MARK II P.O. Box 1849 201 Penn Center Phone: 307-234-5346 Suite 304 Phone: 412-241-5131 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 18 Grant Street SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS P.O. Box 382 The Crossroads Crystal Lake, Illinois 1635 N.E. Loop 410 Phone: 815-459-4033 Suite 202 Phone: 512-828-8142 CLEVELAND, OHIO GEARS FOR INDUSTRY 6500 Pearl Rd ., Suite 215 TULSA, OKLAHOMA AND SHIP PROPULSION Phone: 216-842-7879 2865 E. Skelly Drive Suite 203 , TEXAS Phone: 918-749-6846 276 Meadows Bldg. CANADIAN DIVISION Phone: 214-691 -6133 VENTURA, CALIFORNIA 198 Barbara Street DENVER, COLORADO Oakview, California 2305 E. Arapahoe Rd. Phone: 805-649-2757 Banff: The Magic Land ...... 4 Suite 115 Littleton, Colorado WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA Customer Service Expanded Phone: 303-795-9253 417 First Avenue East In Odessa, Abilene, Williston ...... 8 P.O. Box 1968 HOUSTON, TEXAS Phone: 701-774-3831 810 Highway 6 South LUFKIN Installations ...... 10 Suite 206 EXECUTIVE OFFICES & P.O. Box 440069 MANUFACTURING PLANT Snapshots ...... 12 Phone: 713-870-9151 P.O Box 849 Lufkin, Texas KILGORE, TEXAS Phone: 409-634-2211 Interstate 20 & State 42 R. L. Poland, President PO. Box 871 Ben Queen, Vice-President, Phone: 214-984-3875 COVERS Sales Manager LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Front: Brea Village Plaza An Old Hunting Cabin 259 S. Randolph Ave. Painting by Al Richardson Suite 280 Brea, California Bellaire, Texas 714-529-1862 Inside Front: Mount Rundle in Banff National Park LUFKIN MACHINE CO. , LTD. Photo courtesy of , NISKU, ALBERTA Banff/Lake Louise Chamber of Commerce CANADA 225 McDougall Place PO Box 240 Framing reproductions of the pai nti ng, An Ol d Hu nting Cabi n, are 808 Fourth Ave., S.W. Nisku Industrial Park Phone: 403-234-7692 Phone: 403-955-7566 available in a limited number. Requests should be made to the Director, Public Rel ations, P.O. Box 849, Lufkin, Texas 75902-0849.

INTERNATIONAL DIVISION IABC Member of International Association SALES AND SERVICE OFFICE of Business Communicators HOUSTON, TEXAS Pu blished to promote friendship and goodwill among its customers 12941 Interstate 45 North and friends and to advance the intere st of its products by Lufkin Suite 302 Industries, Inc., Lufkin, Texas. Produced by the Public Relations Phone: 713-580-5835 Department, Vi rginia R. Allen , director; David Willmon, managing Telex: 79-4309 Cable: " luffo" Houston editor, and Tom Johnston, photographer.

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ver since tales of its pristine, (Above) Beneath rugged, snow-streaked peaks, skaters move almost silently on the ice of rugged beauty lured the first Lake Minnewanka. (Opposite page) In seemingly impossible co-existence, poppies on the banks of Lake Louise frame a view of Victoria Glacier, a remnant of an ice-age 20,000 years ago. E adventurous mountaineers and ski enthusiasts to the Banff/Lake pine cover the slopes and foothills mineral springs near the community. Louise area in the Canadian with a dark green backdrop for the Local Indians had regarded the Rockies, visitors to Banff National patches of golden aspen and larch springs as holy, bringing their sick Park have returned again and again during the fall. Scattered in the to the waters for healing. For years as if drawn by something mystical, clearings and along the trails are crutches and canes were nailed to almost magical they've discovered in calypso orchid, Indian paintbrush, the trees as testimonies to the this frontier wilderness. and brown-eyed susan. healing powers of the mineral Maybe the mountains create the Located just 10 miles inside the springs. magic of this resort just 65 miles East Gate of the Park, the town of The springs were discovered in west of Calgary, Alberta, on the Banff provides all the benefits of a 1883 by two prospectors, Frank Trans-Canada Highway #1. Some modern metropolitan area with 11 McCabe and William Mccardell, at are drawn there to explore, because, major convention facilities, 36 hotels a time when the Canadian most of all, it is a wilderness for and motels, museums, fine dining government was considering possible both experienced and amateur and live theatre, concerts, opera, sites for a national park in the explorers. Others find the beauty and ballet at the Banff Centre. region. In 1885, the Canadian enchanting, captivating, as did the The town was named after government chose the area first explorers who reached this Banffshire Scotland, the birthplace immediately around the springs and area. But thousands return every of Lord Strathcon, the President of Banff as the site for its first national winter to ski the thrilling slopes of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) park and initially named the reserve Lake Louise, Sunshine Valley, and during the late 1800s. It was during Rocky Mountains Park. Norquay. that time a town sprang up around The hot mineral springs were soon The Canadian Rockies surround the CPR settlement of Siding 29. used by the CPR to promote train Banff National Park like a fleet of Until then Siding 29 had been little travel to the area. The CPR built the massive, craggy battleships, more than a service center for majestic Banff Springs Hotel in 1888 intimidating by their immense railroad men, construction workers and piped the hot mineral water to a presence. Along their lower and miners in the area. But word bath house near the hotel. The elevations, Douglas fir and lodgepole began to spread about "healing" springs are still a popular attraction

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today. In preparation for the 1OOth rugged frontier and carefully created (Above) Called " Stoney Chier' by the Anniversary of the Park in 1985, a campsites and hiking facilities . Indians, Cascade Mountain (9,830 ft.) stands watch over the city of Banff and the $9 million restoration project is now Within the park are 14 campgrounds eastern entrance to Banff National Park. underway at the Cave and Basin with 2,500 campsites and roughly (Above left) Canoeing along the towering springs facility. 810 miles of hiking trails. walls of Mount Rundle on Bow River is a favorite of summer tourists. A year before the discovery of the There are 53 species of mammals hot springs near Siding 29, an within the park's territory. Walking in when it was built employee of the CPR, Tom Wilson, along any of the park's trails in 1959, provides visitors an was the first white man to visit Lake through the back country, one is unparalleled view of Bow Valley and Louise. Led there by an Indian likely to sight coyote, deer and elk. Banff from both its glass enclosed guide, Wilson discovered a beautiful The park also has a herd of buffalo cars and restaurant and observation emerald lake created by the huge today, even though the last bison deck atop Sulphur Mountain. glacier known today as the Victoria native to the area were killed in On the opposite side of the valley, Glacier. Both Wilson and the Indian 1858. In 1897, a park superintendent the Mount Norquay Gondola takes were enchanted by the beautiful and a group of experienced riders on a 20-minute climb to the scene. Wilson later recalled, "For Canadian ranchers secretly 7,000-foot summit of one of the some time we sat and smoked and purchased a small herd of the area's most rugged mountains. A gazed at the gem of beauty beneath animals in Montana and drove them twenty-minute ride in the Lake the glacier. " over the border into Canada. Louise Gondola takes visitors to a In 1892, the Canadian government For both explorers and sightseers, 6,700-foot summit overlooking Lake established a separate reserve around there are endless things to see and Louise and Victoria Glacier. Lake Louise, just 35 miles from almost as many ways to see them. But it is skiing which has attracted Banff. Then in 1902, Rocky For an overall look at Bow Valley, the most visitors to Banff/Lake Mountains Park was enlarged to Banff, and Lake Louise, there are Louise nearly as long as the park include the Lake Louise Park and gondola rides to the tops of has been in existence. The first renamed Banff National Park. Banff/Lake Louise mountains. skiing expeditions used logging trails Today, the Banff National Park The Sulphur Mountain Gondola in cut through the forested slopes of protects 2,594 square miles of both Banff, the first sight-seeing gondola Mount Norquay, but today there are

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three world class ski resorts located largest ski area in Canada. From the top of the highest chair lift at Sunshine, a run with a vertical drop of less than 35 minutes from Banff. Comprising more than 17 square 3,420 feet leads back to the Sunshine Inn. Mount Norquay, Banff's most miles of mountain slopes, it has convenient ski slope, is only 10 slopes with more than 3,200 feet of during the other seasons of the year minutes from downtown. While it vertical drop and lift service to at Banff/Lake Louise. During the provides some of the most slopes on three mountain faces, spring and summer, one can take challenging advanced skiing, Whitehorn, Ptarmigan, and Temple, canoe trips along the Bow River, or Norquay also provides some of the each catching the sun at different raft rides along a swift 15-mile best novice slopes in the Banff times of the day. There are 40 miles stretch of the river, or fish for National Park with gentle rolling of trails and a vast expanse of above rainbow or brook trout in the Bow terrain. The longest of Norquay's timberline snow. The area has a and Spray Rivers and lake trout as ski Ii fts takes skiers to the network of nine lifts with a total large as 40 pounds in Lake 7,000-foot level. This winter the capacity of 8,830 people per hour. Minnewanka. Exploring, hiking, Norquay slopes will also offer skiing The Winter Festival held each camping, mountain climbing, at night. January has been the highlight of the cycling, and horseback tours through The Sunshine Ski Area, located on winter season since 1917. Five-man the foothills, even sailing and a vast 1,200 acre natural alpine ski teams come from miles around to windsurfing on Lake Minnewanka, slope just 30 minutes from either compete in the festival's main event, are popular pastimes. Banff or Lake Louise, opened its the Mountain Madness Relay. In this With so much to do, so much to doors in 1935 offering a wide relay, which begins on the slopes of see in Banff National Park, perhaps variety of hills for beginning skiers Mount Norquay and ends along the those who have been there are or chutes, bowls and well­ banks of the Bow River, teams are driven to return again and again by manicured, packed slopes for the made up of down-hill skiers, the haunting fear they missed experts. There are lifts with a total runners, snowshoers, ice skaters and something that can't be found uphill capacity of 6,500 rides per cross-country skiers, representative anywhere else. hour. of this area's many popular sports The new Lake Louise Ski area, during the long winter months. just 35 minutes from Banff, is the But there is just as much to do Photos by David Freeze

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Customer Service Expanded I Company responds to need for gear box repair facility and new s.

uring its 60 years in the pumping unit business, LUFKIN's quality of service to customers has D never been affected by the ups and downs of the industry. In fact, customer service has never been more important than it is today as the industry struggles to recover from one of its worst periods in recent history. Responding to the need for added service in one of the nation's busiest fields and increased activity in two new areas of the oil patch, LUFKIN's Machinery division recently announced the opening of a new gear box repair facility in Odessa and two new sales and service offices in Abilene, Texas and Williston, North Dakota. Customer service in the Permian Basin has been expanded to provide LUFKIN customers more than (Top) Once turned over to local machine shops, complete overhauls of pumping unit gear reducers now are performed in the Odessa repair shop. Here shop mechanics begin a repair job, using the new 400-ton press to remove the cranks and replace a damaged slow speed gear. (Right) Finishing up the repair job, the mechanics replace the high speed bearings.

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In Odessa, Abilene, Williston sales and service offices.

(Above) The Machinery Division's sales and service office in Odessa now offers complete gear box repair for independents and major oil companies which operate an estimated 31,800 wells in the Permian Basin field, producing over 333,664 barrels of oil annually. (Left) Odessa sales and service employees check in a shipment of new parts for the warehouse which now stocks a larger selection of parts including spare gear sets and gear box housings.

spare parts for their equipment. Now the company's Parts inventory was also upgraded to include a wider sales and service facility in Odessa has been equipped to selection of bearings, slow speed shafts, gear sets and provide complete gear box and bearing repair for oil new gear box housings. field customers in the area. The operation is a full service repair shop for According to Doyle Herndon, district manager, pumping unit gear boxes of all makes. If parts are renovation to the facility and installation of new available, the facility can provide quick repair on other equipment was completed during late summer and the brands of pumping unit reducers. facility is now providing fast , reasonably-priced gear LUFKIN recently opened sales and service offices in box repair work for operators in the area. Abilene, Texas and Williston, North Dakota to provide ' 'Saving operators down time was the primary goal of prompt service for customers in these locations which this expansion," says Herndon. "Under normal were many hours away from the nearest sales and conditions, we can take any size gear box up to an API service office. Customers in the Abilene area are now 456, tear it down, completely re-build it and have it serviced by LUFKIN representative Bill Williford, who ready to go in a 24-hour period. '' transferred from the company's Tulsa, Oklahoma office. Making this possible was the installation of Dennis Melland, LUFKIN's new representative in the approximately $140,000 in new equipment in the Williston area, transferred from the Casper, Wyoming 20,000-square-foot building. The shop was equipped office earlier this year. with 15-ton and 5-ton overhead cranes, a new 400-ton With the addition of Williston and Abilene, the press , an engine lathe, a radial arm drill press, and a company now has 24 offices throughout the United key-shaper, enabling the Odessa service personnel to States and Canada and 85 experienced sales and service perform any type repairs on pumping unit gear reducers. personnel.

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LUFKIN M-456D-256-144 Unit, Canadian Superior Oil, Ltd., Harmattan Field, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada.

LUFKIN A-1280D-470-240 Unit, Canadian Superior Oil, Ltd., Harmattan Field, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada.

LUFKIN C-640D-30S-144 Unit, Esso Resources Canada, Ltd., Leduc Field, LUFKIN M-640D-36S-144 Unit, Suncor, Ltd., Medicine River, Devon, Alberta, Canada. Alberta, Canada.

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NEIL GUEST JERRY DUDZIAK Noreen Energy Resources Total Petroleum Canada Ltd. Calgary, Alberta Calgary, Alberta

T.J. KNIGHT JOHN FRANK Murphy Oil Company Ltd. Ulster Petroleums Ltd. Calgary, Alberta Calgary, Alberta Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023

JOHN SPARGO GLENN CRUICKSHANK Poco Petroleums Ltd. Chevron Canada Resources Calgary, Alberta , Alberta

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Here's why over 500 oil companies use our Mar1< II pumping unit.

In nearly every case, oil companies have found the Mark II less expensive to operate than conventional geometry pumping units. Proven savings on installation and day-to-day operating costs . The phased crank and unique geometry of the Mark II work together to lower peak torque requirements, permitting the use of small reducers and prime movers. When electric motors are used as prime movers, the uniform torque demand of the Mark II produces day-to-day savings in electrical consumption. A geometry well-suited for rod pumping at extreme depths. The lower acceleration at the bottom polished rod reversal decreases peak rod load significantly, making the Mark II the only unit suitable for low-cost sucker rod pumping at depths below 10,000 feet.

Division Offices: Calgary, ALT A, 403/234-7692 Denver, CO, 303/795-9253 Dallas, TX, 214/ 691-6133 Atlanta, GA, 404/ 939-3119 Houston, TX, 713 / 870-9151 International offices: I LUFKIN t!l Tulsa, OK, 918/749-6846 Houston, TX, 713 / 820-9884 Pittsburgh, PA, 412/241-5131 Executive offices & plant: Bakersfield, CA, 805 / 327-3563 Lufkin, TX, 409/ 634-2211 INDUSTRIES, INC. LUFKIN, TEXAS Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023