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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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →No, wait a minute. Telemetry, I love it. I am sure we have all been there. If you are a pumper in today’s world of pumping, you should know about telemetry. For those who don’t know about it, the sys
Read more →Most of the equipment you handle and components you use on an oil lease fall under the general heading of materials. That includes spare parts, pipes in storage, and chemicals that are stored on the l
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