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This Week in Petroleum History: March 18 – 24
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Oil Boom at Pithole Creek
New London School Explosion
George Bissell’s Oil Seeps
This Week in Petroleum History: March 11 – 17
Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest
Petroleum and Sea Power
Mobil’s High-Flying Trademark
Shooters – A “Fracking” History
Kentucky’s Great American Oil Well
Oklahoma’s King of the Wildcatters
“Diamond Glenn” McCarthy
This Week in Petroleum History: March 4 – 10
First Wyoming Oil Wells
Sour Lake produces Texaco
Rigs to Reefs
Montana Belle Oil & Gas Company
This Week in Petroleum History: February 26-March 3
Halliburton cements Wells
THUMS – California’s Hidden Oil Islands
Million Dollar Auctioneer
First Kansas Oil Well
Petroleum History Research Forum
Nylon, a Petroleum Polymer
Women of the Offshore Petroleum Industry
This Week in Petroleum History: February 19 – 25
Japanese Sub attacks Oilfield
Pawnee Bill Oil Company
Wyatt Earp’s California Oil Wells
Kansas Gas Well Fire
“Smokesax” Art has Pipeline Heart
This Week in Petroleum History: February 12 – 18
All Pumped Up – Oilfield Technology
First Alabama Oil Well
Yellow Dog – Oilfield Lantern
First Nevada Oil Well
Ardmore Lubricating Oil Company
Manuel “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas, Texas Ranger
This Week in Petroleum History: February 5 – 11
Illuminating Gaslight
Meridian Petroleum Company
AAPG – Geology Pros since 1917
This Week in Petroleum History: January 29 – February 4
Deep Sea Roughnecks
Secret History of Drill Ship Glomar Explorer
Buffalo Bill Shoshone Oil Company
Oil Scouts – Oil Patch Detectives
This Week in Petroleum History: January 22 – 28
End of Oil Exchanges
Oil Seeps and Santa Barbara Spill
Standard Oil and the Kerosene Stove
Wham-O and Petroleum Product Hoopla
Technology and the “Conroe Crater”
Moncrief makes East Texas History
This Week in Petroleum History: January 15 – 21
Eccentric Wheels and Jerk Lines
ROV – Swimming Socket Wrench
Oil Riches of Merriman Baptist Church
Ohio Oil Company
This Week in Petroleum History: January 8 – 14
Spindletop launches Modern Petroleum Industry
Ending Oil Gushers – BOP
Marathon of Ohio Oil
Seuss I am, an Oilman
Dome Gas Station at Takoma Park
This Week in Petroleum History: January 1 – 7
Puente Crude Oil Company
Puente Oil at Los Angeles Harbor
Sweeney’s 1866 Rotary Rig
Michigan’s Golden Gulch of Oil
This Week in Petroleum History, December 25 to December 31
Lou Della Crim Revealed
Remarkable Nellie Bly’s Oil Drum
Fishing in Petroleum Wells
Refinery Supply Company Slide Rule
This Week in Petroleum History, December 18 to December 24
Oil Town “Aero Views”
Asphalt Paves the Way
Carl Baker and Howard Hughes
Oleaginous History of Wax Lips
This Week in Petroleum History, December 11 to December 17
Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Oilfield Artillery fights Fires
This Week in Petroleum History, December 4 to December 10
Palmer Oil Company
Project Gasbuggy tests Nuclear “Fracking”
Mrs. Dysart’s Uranium Well
Ethyl Anti-Knock Gas
Kansas “Wind Gas” Well
Exploring Seismic Waves
Legend of “Coal Oil Johnny”
This Week in Petroleum History, November 27 to December 3
First Gas Pump and Service Station
Coin-Operated Gas Pumps
Oil Queen of California
This Week in Petroleum History, November 20 to November 26
Alaska Oil & Gas Development Company
America on the Move
Casinghead Gasoline at Glenn Pool
Protected: Oil & Gas History News, November 2023
Making Tulsa “Oil Capital of the World”
Tulsa Producing and Refining Company
This Week in Petroleum History, November 13 to November 19
America exports Oil
Offshore Drilling History
This Week in Petroleum History, November 6 to November 12
Houston Ship Channel
History of Con Edison
Mrs. Alford’s Nitro Factory
Petroleum & Oilfield Artists
This Week in Petroleum History, October 30-November 5
Edwin Drake and his Oil Well
Cantankerous Combustion — First U.S. Auto Show
Natural Gas is King in Pittsburgh
“Golden Rule” Jones of Ohio
Doughboy Oil Company
Buffalo Oil Company
Oilfields of Dreams — Gassers, Oilers, and Drillers Baseball
This Week in Petroleum History, October 23 to October 29
Blue Flame Natural Gas Rocket Car
Driller from Netherlands
Protected: Oil & Gas History News, October 2023
Meet Joe Roughneck
This Week in Petroleum History, October 16 to October 22
Oil Boom Brings First Hilton Hotel
Roaring Ranger wins WWI
First New Mexico Oil Wells
Icy Ball, Kerosene Ice Maker
This Week in Petroleum History, October 9 to October 15
First Arizona Oil and Gas Wells
Making Hole – Drilling Technology
Offshore Rocket Launcher
This Week in Petroleum History, October 2 to October 8
First Oil Well Fire
East Texas Oilfield Discovery
LaViness Family Oilfield History
Derricks of Triumph Hill
Kansas Oil Boom
Million Barrel Museum
This Week in Petroleum History, September 25 to October 1
Texas United Oil Company
First Florida Oil Well
Oil Reigns at King Ranch
Protected: Oil & Gas History News, September 2023
First California Oil Wells
This Week in Petroleum History, September 18 to September 24
First Louisiana Oil Wells
Horace Horton’s Spheres
First Utah Oil Wells
Downhole Bazooka
This Week in Petroleum History, September 11 to September 17
Indiana Natural Gas Boom
First Texas Oil Well
This Week in Petroleum History, September 4 to September 10
First Mississippi Oil Wells
Governor Hogg’s Texas Oil Wells
This Week in Petroleum History, August 28 to Sept. 3
Cities Service Company
McKeesport Gas Company
First Dry Hole
ConocoPhillips Petroleum Museums
This Week in Petroleum History, August 21 to August 27
First American Oil Well
Prophet of Spindletop
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