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October 24, 2019
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June 28th, 1967 – Smithsonian Museum and The Hall of Petroleum In 1967, a new attraction opened at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of History and Technology. The Hall of Petroleum originally incl
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October 24, 2019
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June 20th, 1977 – Trans-Alaska Pipeline is Finally Complete Following three years of construction, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline started carrying oil on June 20th, 1977. The pipeline serviced nearly 800
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October 24, 2019
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June 12th, 1879 – The Father of Allegany Oil Drills First New York Well In 1879, Orville P. Taylor set out on a mission to prove that there was oil beneath the surface of Allegany County, New York. Th
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October 23, 2019
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May 8th, 1918 – Fort Worth Panthers Take on the Shreveport Gassers In Record-Setting Game The oil industry and America’s favorite past time joined forces in the early 1900s with a 96 team baseball le
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October 23, 2019
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May 16th, 1934 – Stripper Well Association Established In 1934, the National Stripper Well Association was established in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The purpose of the organization was to protect and promote th
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October 20, 2019
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November 28, 1892 — First Oilfield West Of Mississippi is Discovered The original Norman No. 1 well was abandoned after it stopped producing, but a replica was built on its site in the 1960s to mark t
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October 20, 2019
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December 20, 1913 – Cosden Opens New Refinery In Tulsa The Cosden Building, now known as the Mid-Continent Building, was Tulsa, Oklahoma’s first skyscraper. It is listed on the National Register of Hi
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August 15, 2019
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One survey by GoBankingRates found that 29 percent of Americans believe they’ll become a millionaire. With a little bit of know-how, a good enough idea and a little luck, any of us could end up being
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March 26, 2018
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Back in 2012, Steve Lohr writing for the New York Times did average folks a favor and introduced us to “Big Data.” Yes, analysts, data scientists and the people in Silicon Valley had already heard of
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August 8, 2017
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Oklahoma City, OK — GreaseBook, developers of a mobile oilfield app by the same name, announced today they are expanding their field-ready mobile capabilities to another device with the introduction o
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