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September 25th, 1922 – First Commercial Oil Well Drilled in New Mexico The Navajo Indian Reservation was the site of the first ever commercial well in New Mexico. The Midwest Refining Company finished
Read more →November 14, 1947 – First True Offshore Well Is Drilled The drilling platform called Kermac 16 would go on to produce oil for nearly forty years after it was first drilled. This offshore drilling plat
Read more →December 9, 1921 — Lead Gas Introduced To Reduce Knocking Gas with a tetraethyl lead additive, or ethyl as it was advertised, promised to reduce the amount of ‘knock,’ which was a problem with early a
Read more →September 4th, 1841 – Percussion Drilling Technology Patented The “Rock Drill Jar” was patented by William Morris on September 4th, 1841 with a discovery that would forever change the drilling industr
Read more →September 18th, 1948 – Utah Completes First Commercial Oil Well In 1948, Utah’s first commercial oil well was completed in the Uinta Basin, by the leader of the Equity Oil Company, J.L. “Mike” Dougan.
Read more →September 11th, 1866 – Ewing’s Method Officially Patented, Leading to Mobil Oil In 1866, a carpenter named Matthew Ewing patented his method for distilling kerosene. Ewing’s method involved kerosene b
Read more →August 30th, 1919 – Snake Hollow Gas Boom Brings Industry to Pittsburgh The August 30th the discovery of the Snake Hollow Gusher in McKeesport, Pennsylvania spearheaded a Pittsburgh oil boom, eventual
Read more →August 21st, 1897 – Olds Motor Vehicle Company Officially Opens in Michigan Ransom Eli Olds was a pioneer in the automotive industry beginning when he established the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Mic
Read more →Every week is filled with petroleum facts. Some only pertain to the time it happened. Others have affected us for generations. Here are a few that took place in March between the 6th and 12th. March 7
Read more →March 13th, 1974 – End of OPEC Embargo A five-month long oil embargo on the U.S. ended was officially ended on March 13th, 1974 by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) Arab member
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