This Week in Petroleum History, December 29 – January 4

by | Dec 29, 2025 | 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 by natural seeps that oil could be produced 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…)

This Week in Petroleum History, October 13 – 19

by | Oct 13, 2025 | This Week in Petroleum History

October 13, 1917 – U.S. Oil & Gas Association founded –

Oklahoma independent producers established the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association in Tulsa, Oklahoma, six months after the United States entered World War I. The organization, today the United States Oil & Gas Association, was founded by petroleum industry leaders Frank Phillips, E.W. Marland, Bill Skelly, and Robert Kerr to increase petroleum supplies for the Allies during the war. The association in 1919 formed the Oklahoma-Kansas Division, now the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. (more…)

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