The derrick
Over Well No. 2.
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The National Petroleum Museum is a site museum in Comodoro Rivadavia, built around historic Well No. 2, where on 13 December 1907 the Argentine state's first oil gushed, giving birth to a whole oil city. The museum opened on the same anniversary in 1987, is now run by the National University of Patagonia, and is one of the few museums in the world devoted solely to oil. With models, interactive simulators and panels it explains how oil forms underground, how it is extracted and what it becomes, and tells the story of the workers and early camps. Its outdoor grounds hold an old drilling derrick over the historic well, locomotives and wagons of the oil railway, cranes and huge machinery. It opens Tuesday to Sunday and closes Monday, for an entry fee. Pair it with the view from Cerro Chenque above the city.
Over Well No. 2.
Engines and cranes.
From rock to product.
General Mosconi district, Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut
Argentina's first state oil gushed here from Well No. 2 on 13 December 1907, and the museum surrounds it.