This Week in Petroleum History, January 27 – February 2
January 28, 1921 – “Vaseline Well” erupts in Oklahoma –
After reaching a depth of 3,710 feet, drillers of the W.C. Newman well near Lamar, Oklahoma, “hit into a strata of oil, the like of which never before, nor since has been found,” reported the Daily Oklahoman in a 1933 retrospective of the well, which “caused oil men to marvel then, as today, since it produces the same Vaseline-like content.” (more…)
