Examples of stamps depicting oil derricks and related installations:
(stamps are not all shown to same scale)
The world's first postage stamp
to depict a single oil derrick —
produced by Azerbaijan in
1921-22.
This is one of the world's rarest petroleum stamps —
it was produced (but never released) for the
German WW II occupation of Poland.
You can read all about it HERE.
Oil derricks on two of Colombia's first petroleum stamps (1932 and 1935).
A 1956 issue showing the Catatumbo oil
field in Colombia's North Santander province.
Bolivia's first petro-stamp (1938)
shows derricks in the Villa Montes field.
Peru's second petroleum stamp
(1936-37) depicts an oil derrick
and gusher in the Talara field.
These two stamps from Brazil's first petroleum definitives (1941-42)
depict derricks in an onshore oil field.
Three versions of an Argentinian stamp depicting an oil field in Tierra
del Fuego.
Iraq's first petroleum stamps (1942) show the Baba Gugur
discovery well of the Kirkuk oil field.
Canada's first petroleum stamp (1950, left) showed the Leduc oil field;
the one on the right (1967) shows a
painting of the Imperial Oil Co. drilling rig #3 at work.
Stylized oil derricks are shown on this
1975 Japanese stamp noting the Ninth
World Petroleum Congress.
Pakistan's first petroleum stamp (1955) depicted
a derrick and flares in the Sui gas field
of the Indus Basin.
Austria's first petroleum stamp (1947; left) showed oil derricks at Zistersdorf,
the
nation's first major oil field. The second stamp (right) notes the 50th anniversary
of
that field and depicts a roughneck with a roller-cone drill bit on the derrick
floor.
An early cable-tool drill bit is shown
on this 1978 Venezuelan stamp. The
map shows the location of the Petrolia
Field in the State of Táchira.
A gutter block of one of Trinidad's most attractive petroleum stamps —
a 1983
issue illustrating onshore derricks and pumpjacks.
This 1979 souvenir sheet from Trinidad & Tobago shows both onshore
and
offshore petroleum drilling rigs on its incorporated stamps.
The first petrostamps from Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) showed isolated
oil derricks in the desert.
Another view of oil in the deserts of the Middle East
was provided on this stamp from the Marshall
Islands noting important events of the
20th Century.
These petroleum stamps of the Peoples' Republic of China (1974, 1976)
show
drillers on a rig floor and oil derricks on a beach.
Similar French and Algerian stamps of 1959 and 1962 depict a
drilling rig in the Hassi-Messaoud oilfield in the Algerian Sahara.
The first French stamps to depict oil derricks were released in 1955
and 1957 — both showed the Parentis oil field in the Bordeau region/
A 1986 Libyan stamp showing a drilling rig and oil
storage tanks.
Onshore mining of heavy oil in the form of tar sands is shown
on this 1978 stamp from Canada. Canada's Athabasca tar
sands are among the world's largest such deposits.
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