This Week in Petroleum History, December 30 – January 5

by | Dec 30, 2024 | This Week in Petroleum History

December 30, 1854 – First American Oil Company incorporates –

George Bissell and six investors incorporated the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company of New York. Convinced oil could be found in northwestern Pennsylvania, Bissell formed this first U.S. petroleum exploration company “to raise, manufacture, procure and sell Rock Oil” from Hibbard Farm in Venango County. (more…)

Alley Oop’s Oil Roots

by | Jul 31, 2024 | Petroleum Art

Caveman cartoonist Victor Hamlin worked as an oilfield cartographer in Permian Basin.

 

The widely popular Depression Era newspaper comic strip character Alley Oop began in the imagination of a young cartographer who drew Permian Basin oilfield maps in Texas.

The club-wielding Alley Oop caveman appeared for the first time in the summer of 1933 when Victor Hamlin, a former Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reporter, published fanciful tales about the Stone Age Kingdom of Moo. Hamlin began syndicating his daily cartoon in Iowa’s Des Moines Register. 
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