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• Oilfield Artillery fights Fires
• Arctic Explorer turned Oil Promoter
• This Week in Petroleum History, December 8 – 14
• Project Gasbuggy tests Nuclear “Fracking”
• Ethyl Anti-Knock Gas
• Mrs. Dysart’s Uranium Well
• Legend of “Coal Oil Johnny”
• Making a Two-Wick Lamp
• This Week in Petroleum History, December 1 – 7
• First Gas Pump and Service Station
• Exploring Seismic Waves
• Oil Boom at Pithole Creek
• Kansas “Wind Gas” Well
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 24 – 30
• Oil Queen of California
• First Kansas Oil Well
• Coin-Operated Gas Pumps
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 17 – 23
• America exports Oil
• Making Tulsa “Oil Capital of the World”
• America on the Move
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 10 – 16
• Refinery Supply Company Slide Rule
• Offshore Petroleum History
• History of Con Edison
• Houston Ship Channel
• Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest
• Mrs. Alford’s Nitro Factory
• George Bissell’s Oil Seeps
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 3 – 9
• Cantankerous Combustion — First U.S. Auto Show
• First New Mexico Oil Wells
• Natural Gas is King in Pittsburgh
• This Week in Petroleum History, October 27 – November 2
• “Golden Rule” Jones of Ohio
• Oilfields of Dreams — Gassers, Oilers and Drillers
• Driller from Netherlands
• Rocky Beginnings of Petroleum Geology
• Chief Roughneck Award Winners
• This Week in Petroleum History, October 20 – 26
• Meet Joe Roughneck
• Winona Oil Corporation
• History Research Forum
• Blue Flame Natural Gas Rocket Car
• This Week in Petroleum History, October 13 – 19
• Roaring Ranger wins WW I
• First Arizona Oil and Gas Wells
• This Week in Petroleum History: October 6 – 12
• First Oil Well Fire
• First Wyoming Oil Wells
• Offshore Rocket Launcher
• Wyoming Peerless Oil Company
• Wyoming-Dakota Oil Company
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 29 – October 5
• Million Barrel Museum
• East Texas Oilfield Discovery
• Kansas Oil Boom
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 22 – 28
• Oil Reigns at King Ranch
• First Florida Oil Well
• Horace Horton’s Spheres
• First California Oil Wells
• Downhole Bazooka
• Casinghead Gasoline at Glenn Pool
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 15 – 21
• Ute Oil Company – Oil Shale Pioneer
• First Louisiana Oil Wells
• First Utah Oil Wells
• Protected: Gas Stations of Plainfield, Illinois
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 8 – 14
• Mobil’s High-Flying Trademark
• First Texas Oil Well
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 1 – 7
• Making Hole – Drilling Technology
• Cities Service Company
• First Mississippi Oil Wells
• Governor Hogg’s Texas Oil Wells
• This Week in Petroleum History, August 25 – 31
• First American Oil Well
• Centennial Oil Stamp Issue
• McKeesport Gas Company
• Histories of Indian Refining, Havoline, and Texaco
• This Week in Petroleum History: August 18 – 24
• Ames Astrobleme Museum
• Prophet of Spindletop
• This Week in Petroleum History: August 11 – 17
• Flight of the Woolaroc
• First Car, First Road Trip
• This Week in Petroleum History: August 4 – 10
• Oilfield Firefighting Technologies
• Luling Oil Museum and Crudoleum
• Alley Oop’s Oil Roots
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 28 – August 3
• Petroleum Survey discovers U-boat
• Big Inch Pipelines of WW II
• Boom Town Burkburnett
• Zebco Reel Oilfield History
• Oil Scouts – Oil Patch Detectives
• Discovering La Brea “Tar Pits”
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 21 – 27
• Earliest Signs of Oil
• First Dry Hole
• “Diamond Glenn” McCarthy
• Desk and Derrick Educators
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 14 – 20
• Carl Baker and Howard Hughes
• Seminole Oil Boom
• First Alaska Oil Wells
• Kerosene Rocket Fuel
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 7 – 13
• Asphalt Paves the Way
• Offshore – Piers, Platforms and Barges
• Oil in the Land of Oz
• Summer Travels to Oil Museums
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 30 – July 6
• Petroleum and Sea Power
• First Arkansas Oil Wells
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 23 – 29
• Smithsonian’s Hall of Petroleum
• Red Fork Gusher
• Signal Hill Oil Boom
• Oil Art of Graham, Texas
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 16 – 22
• Lane-Wells 100,000th Perforation
• Inventing the Electric Submersible Pump
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline History
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 9 – 15
• Mr. Charlie, First Mobile Offshore Drilling Rig
• Eccentric Wheels and Jerk Lines
• First Texas Oil Boom
• Illuminating Gaslight
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 2 – 8
• Oilfield Photographer John Mather
• PLUTO, Secret Pipelines of WW II
• The Crude History of Mabel’s Eyelashes
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 26 – June 1
• Dinosaur Fever – Sinclair’s Icon
• Adding Wings to the Iron Horse
• Carbon Black & Oilfield Crayons
• First Oil Book
• First Nebraska Oil Well
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 19 – 25
• Santa Rita taps Permian Basin
• Remarkable Nellie Bly’s Oil Drum
• Technology and the “Conroe Crater”
• Great Oil Boom of Lima, Ohio
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 12 – 18
• Cherry Grove Mystery Well
• Golden Driller of Tulsa
• Hugoton Natural Gas Museum
• Louisiana Oil City Museum
• ConocoPhillips Petroleum Museums
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 5 – 11
• Confederates attack Oilfield
• Standard Oil Whiting Refinery
• Halliburton cements Wells
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 28 – May 4
• Yellow Dog – Oilfield Lantern
• Offshore Rig Patent of 1869
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 21 – 27
• Million Dollar Auctioneer
• End of Oil Exchanges
• Shooters – A “Fracking” History
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 14 – 20
• First Oklahoma Oil Well