by Bruce Wells | Nov 16, 2023 | Petroleum Products
When Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley completed their Ida Glenn No. 1 well on November 22, 1905, they revealed another giant oilfield south of Tulsa. The discovery well, drilled with cable-tool technology, struck oil-bearing sands at depth of only 1,450 feet. (more…)
by Bruce Wells | Nov 14, 2023 | Petroleum Pioneers
Greater than the 1901 discoveries at nearby Red Fork and Spindletop Hill in Texas, the Oklahoma Territory Glenn Pool field produced a “light and sweet” oil from the Creek Indian Reservation. It would help make Tulsa the “Oil Capital of the World.”
On a chilly fall morning in 1905 — two years before Oklahoma became a state — oil was discovered on the Glenn family farm south of Tulsa. The oilfield discovery well launched a drilling boom that greatly exceeded the first Oklahoma oil well of 1897 at Bartlesville. (more…)
