In 2012, Meckseper’s public art project "Manhattan Oil Project", commissioned by the Art Production Fund, was installed on the corner of 46th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City. Consisting of two monumental kinetic sculptures modeled after mid-20th century oil pumps, these 25 feet tall sculptures were inspired by oil pumps that the artist discovered in Electra, a boarded-up town once famous for being the pump jack capital of Texas. Placed in a vacant lot next to Times Square, the fully motorized pump jacks recalled the ruins of ghost towns, forgotten monuments of America's decaying industrial past.