Artesia, New Mexico owes its wealth to oil. These pumps are decorative outside the Visitor Center, a refinery in the background

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Artesia in southeast New Mexico owes its wealth to oil and celebrates that economic importance with these nonfunctioning, scaled down pumps outside the visitor center. One of the refineries can be seen in the background

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Size: 5108px × 3456px
Location: Visitor Center, Artesia, New Mexico
Photo credit: © Neala McCarten / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: art, artesia, fracking, industry, mccarten, neala, oil, pumping