This Week in Petroleum History

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• Million Dollar Auctioneer
• Shooters – A “Fracking” History
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 14 – 20
• First Oklahoma Oil Well
• Discovering Los Angeles Oilfields
• Dramatic Oil Company
• George Bissell’s Oil Seeps
• First Arkansas Oil Wells
• Rouseville 1861 Oil Well Fire
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 7 – 13
• Ironing with Gasoline
• First Oil Tank Car
• Anadarko Basin in Depth
• ROV – Swimming Socket Wrench
• Staveless Barrel and Tank Company
• History Research Forum
• This Week in Petroleum History: March 31 – April 6
• First North Dakota Oil Well
• Pump Jack Capital of Texas
• Another First Oklahoma Oil Well
• This Week in Petroleum History: March 24 – 30
• Indiana Natural Gas Boom
• Offshore Rocket Launcher
• World-Famous “Wild Mary Sudik”
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
• Edwin Drake and his Oil Well
• This Week in Petroleum History: March 17 – 23
• New London School Explosion
• Vintage Oil Postcards from Texas
• “Diamond Glenn” McCarthy
• Seminole Oil Boom
• This Week in Petroleum History: March 10 – 16
• Mobil’s High-Flying Trademark
• Kentucky’s Great American Oil Well
• Oklahoma’s King of the Wildcatters
• Paramount Petroleum Company
• This Week in Petroleum History: March 3 – 9
• Sour Lake produces Texaco
• Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
• Rigs to Reefs
• First Wyoming Oil Wells
• This Week in Petroleum History, Feb. 24 – March 2
• THUMS – California’s Hidden Oil Islands
• Halliburton cements Wells
• Nylon, a Petroleum Polymer
• Wyatt Earp’s California Oil Wells
• Pawnee Bill Oil Company
• This Week in Petroleum History, February 17 – 23
• Japanese Sub attacks Oilfield
• First Alabama Oil Well
• Kansas Gas Well Fire
• “Smokesax” Art has Pipeline Heart
• This Week in Petroleum History, February 10 – 16
• First Nevada Oil Well
• Manuel “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas, Texas Ranger
• Puente Oil at Los Angeles Harbor
• Marathon of Ohio Oil
• AAPG – Geology Pros since 1917
• This Week in Petroleum History, February 3 – 9
• Buffalo Bill Shoshone Oil Company
• Illuminating Gaslight
• Dome Gas Station at Takoma Park
• This Week in Petroleum History, January 27 – February 2
• America exports Oil
• Secret History of Drill Ship Glomar Explorer
• Puente Crude Oil Company
• Oil Seeps and Santa Barbara Spill
• Deep Sea Roughnecks
• Oil Scouts – Oil Patch Detectives
• This Week in Petroleum History, January 20 – 26
• End of Oil Exchanges
• Moncrief makes East Texas History
• Wham-O and Petroleum Product Hoopla
• Wyoming-Dakota Oil Company
• Standard Oil and the Kerosene Stove
• This Week in Petroleum History, January 13 – 19
• Eccentric Wheels and Jerk Lines
• Seuss I am, an Oilman
• Oil Riches of Merriman Baptist Church
• Ohio Offshore Wells
• This Week in Petroleum History, January 6 – 12
• Spindletop launches Modern Petroleum Industry
• Michigan’s Golden Gulch of Oil
• Preserving a Standard Oil Barn
• Ending Oil Gushers – BOP
• Oregon Wildcatters
• This Week in Petroleum History, December 30 – January 5
• Fishing in Petroleum Wells
• Sweeney’s 1866 Rotary Rig
• Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
• This Week in Petroleum History, December 23 – 29
• Mrs. Alford’s Nitro Factory
• Remarkable Nellie Bly’s Oil Drum
• Lou Della Crim Revealed
• Oleaginous History of Wax Lips
• This Week in Petroleum History, December 16 – 22
• Oil Town “Aero Views”
• Carl Baker and Howard Hughes
• Oilfield Artillery fights Fires
• Camphene to Kerosene Lamps
• Preserving a 1921 Atlantic Refining Publication
• Arctic Explorer turned Oil Promoter
• This Week in Petroleum History, December 9 – 15
• Project Gasbuggy tests Nuclear “Fracking”
• Mrs. Dysart’s Uranium Well
• Ethyl Anti-Knock Gas
• Legend of “Coal Oil Johnny”
• This Week in Petroleum History, December 2 – 8
• Making a Two-Wick Lamp
• Kansas “Wind Gas” Well
• Exploring Seismic Waves
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 25 to December 1
• Coin-Operated Gas Pumps
• First Kansas Oil Well
• Oil Boom at Pithole Creek
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 18 – 24
• America on the Move
• Making Tulsa “Oil Capital of the World”
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 11 – 17
• History of Con Edison
• Offshore Drilling History
• Yellow Dog – Oilfield Lantern
• Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest
• This Week in Petroleum History, November 4 – 10
• Houston Ship Channel
• This Week in Petroleum History, October 28 – November 3
• Oilfields of Dreams — Gassers, Oilers and Drillers
• Cantankerous Combustion — First U.S. Auto Show
• Natural Gas is King in Pittsburgh
• “Golden Rule” Jones of Ohio
• This Week in Petroleum History, October 21 – 27
• Meet Joe Roughneck
• Blue Flame Natural Gas Rocket Car
• This Week in Petroleum History, October 14 – 20
• Roaring Ranger wins WWI
• Oil Boom Brings First Hilton Hotel
• This Week in Petroleum History: October 7 – 13
• First Arizona Oil and Gas Wells
• First Oil Well Fire
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 30 – October 6
• Kansas Oil Boom
• East Texas Oilfield Discovery
• Derricks of Triumph Hill
• Million Barrel Museum
• Cool Coolspring Power Museum
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 23 – 29
• Early Wells of Oil Creek
• Horace Horton’s Spheres
• First California Oil Wells
• First New Mexico Oil Wells
• First Florida Oil Well
• Oil Reigns at King Ranch
• Downhole Bazooka
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 16 – 22
• First Utah Oil Wells
• Ute Oil Company – Oil Shale Pioneer
• Casinghead Gasoline at Glenn Pool
• First Louisiana Oil Wells
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 9 – 15
• First Texas Oil Well
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 2 – 8
• First Gas Pump and Service Station
• First Mississippi Oil Wells
• Governor Hogg’s Texas Oil Wells
• Cities Service Company