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3 unusual facts about Oil well


Harding oilfield

The largest is the central field, hosting most of the wells as well as the site of the gas re-injection.

Kel Seliger

It also establishes a program to address abandoned or orphaned oil and gas wells and includes considerations for potential future periods of decline in oil and gas prices.

Lou Dematteis

His work has been exhibited on four continents and in 2007 he received a grant from the Open Society Institute to exhibit his work from the Ecuadoran Amazon in the communities in Ecuador most affected by the contamination left in the region as a result of Texaco's oil extraction practices.


BonNova

The BonNova rocket team for the Lunar Lander Challenge was led by their chief engineer, Allen Newcomb, a rocket engineer with a career background of combined experience in avionics and design for extreme environments that can expose equipment to extreme heat such as oil wells, and race cars with brutal vibrations and extreme EMI

Oil Creek State Park

The park is adjacent to Drake Well Museum, the site of the first successful commercial oil well in the United States, that was drilled under the direction of Colonel Edwin Drake.

Oil Region National Heritage Area

The national heritage area commemorates and promotes the region surrounding Edwin Drake's oil well of 1859 near Titusville, which gave rise to the modern oil industry.

Sulfide

Corrosion is a major concern in many industrial installations processing sulfides: sulfide ore mills, deep oil wells, pipeline transporting soured oil, Kraft paper factories.


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Campos Basin oil spill

On November 7th 2011, a Chevron owned oil well began leaking causing 200 to 330 barrel of crude oil to enter the ocean every day.

First Oil Well

Drake Well Museum, site of the world's first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania (1859).

Fred S. Clinton

As a financial partner with Dr. J. C. W, Bland, another early physician in the Tulsa area, he helped finance the drilling of the Sue A. Bland #1, the first oil well in Red Fork, which helped propel Tulsa into the ranks of a major American city in the early 20th Century.

Freer, Texas

The first oil well in Texas was drilled in Freer in 1860, a year after the discovery in Titusville, Pennsylvania, but it was unproductive.

Jim Hutton

The movie was loosely based on the career of oil-well firefighter Red Adair.

Ludwig Meyn

In the spring of 1856, Meyn began with simple hand tools, the first drilling for oil in Dithmarschen, three years before Edwin L. Drake, tapped the first oil well in Pennsylvania.

Oliver Winfield Killam

The third oil well drilled by Killam brought about an oil boom in Mirando City in eastern Webb County nearly a decade before the better known East Texas Oil Boom centered about Kilgore and Longview.

Petroleum refining processes

In North America, the first oil well was drilled in 1858 by James Miller Williams in Ontario, Canada.

Red Adair

The History Channel's Modern Marvels episode on "Oil Well Firefighting" was one of Adair's last interviews prior to his death.

Ring of Fire III

# "Do It Once and Do It Again" by Terry Howard explains the development of an oil well in Wietze and the subsequent difficulties of a French agent.

Sidoarjo Regency

Since May 2006, more than 10,000 people in the Porong District have been displaced by the hot mud flowing from a natural gas well being drilled by Lapindo Brantas, an oil well company that is part of a conglomerate owned by Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie.

Texon, Texas

The town was named for the Texon Oil and Land Company, which drilled the first successful oil well in the Permian Basin.

William Skelly

After completing the business course, he worked with his father hauling oil well supplies to oil fields in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Wireline

Slickline, a cabling technology used for oil-well completions and maintenance