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January 18, 1919 – Church Refuses Permission To Drill In Cemetery The East Texas Oil Field is the second largest in the lower 48 states and has produced the most oil since its discovery. World War I h
Read more →December 26, 1905 – 55 Gallon Drum Design Patented Nellie Bly, owner of the Ironclad Manufacturing Company and holder of the 55 gallon drum patent, was a journalist before she was an industrialist. He
Read more →December 13, 1905 — Birth of the Gas-Electric Hybrid The large wheel hubs contain motors that are powered by an electrical generator run by a gas engine. In 1902, as the petroleum exploration and dril
Read more →April 4th, 1951 – Williston Basin Revealed In North Dakota, Amerada Petroleum struck oil and discovered the infamous Williston Basin when they dug down two miles below the Clarence Iverson farm. The c
Read more →April 24th, 1911 – The Magnolia Petroleum Company Takes Shape In 1898, Corsicana, Texas was home to only one small refinery, however, it quickly lead to a boom that would bring countless other compani
Read more →April 17th, 1919 – The Start of Another Texas Oil Boom In 1919, the Waggoner No. 1 Well produced 4,800 oil barrels every day starting another oil drilling boom in the Wichita County, Texas area. S.L.
Read more →April 10th, 1866 – The Densmores Usher in Change James and Amos Densmore, inventors from Meadville, Pennsylvania were approved for a patent on their petroleum transporting system that lead to the Penn
Read more →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
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