This Week in Petroleum History

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• 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
• Mobil’s High-Flying Trademark
• 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
• George Bissell’s Oil Seeps
• 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
• First Wyoming Oil Wells
• 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
• Petroleum History Research Forum
• This Week in Petroleum History: October 7 – 13
• Offshore Rocket Launcher
• 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
• Indiana Natural Gas Boom
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 2 – 8
• First Gas Pump and Service Station
• First Mississippi Oil Wells
• Oil Riches of Merriman Baptist Church
• Governor Hogg’s Texas Oil Wells
• Cities Service Company
• This Week in Petroleum History, August 26 to September 1
• First American Oil Well
• Centennial Oil Stamp Issue
• McKeesport Gas Company
• First Dry Hole
• Histories of Indian Refining, Havoline, and Texaco
• This Week in Petroleum History: August 19 – 25
• Prophet of Spindletop
• Mrs. Alford’s Nitro Factory
• This Week in Petroleum History: August 12 – 18
• First Car, First Road Trip
• Ames Astrobleme Museum
• Flight of the Woolaroc
• Wichita Oil & Gas Company
• This Week in Petroleum History: August 5 – 11
• Oilfield Firefighting Technologies
• Luling Oil Museum and Crudoleum
• Alley Oop’s Oil Roots
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 29 – August 4
• Petroleum Survey discovers U-boat
• Big Inch Pipelines of WW II
• Discovering La Brea “Tar Pits”
• Boom Town Burkburnett
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 22 – 28
• Earliest Signs of Oil
• Zebco Reel Oilfield History
• Oil Scouts – Oil Patch Detectives
• Desk and Derrick Educators
• Summer Travels to Oil Museums
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 15 – 21
• First Alaska Oil Wells
• Kerosene Rocket Fuel
• Seminole Oil Boom
• Carl Baker and Howard Hughes
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 8 – 14
• Oil in the Land of Oz
• Chief Roughneck Award Winners
• Asphalt Paves the Way
• First Oil Tank Car
• This Week in Petroleum History: July 1 – 7
• Petroleum and Sea Power
• First Arkansas Oil Wells
• Michigan Petroleum History
• Arkansas Oil Ventures
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 24 – 30
• History of the 42-Gallon Oil Barrel
• Illinois Oil Field Museum
• Oil Art of Graham, Texas
• Red Fork Gusher
• Smithsonian’s Hall of Petroleum
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 17 – 23
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline History
• Signal Hill Oil Boom
• Inventing the Electric Submersible Pump
• Lane-Wells 100,000th Perforation
• Wallace Oil Company
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 10 – 16
• Mr. Charlie, First Mobile Offshore Drilling Rig
• Offshore Oil Piers, Platforms, and Barges
• Oilfield Photographer John Mather
• This Week in Petroleum History: June 3 – 9
• PLUTO, Secret Pipelines of WW II
• First Texas Oil Boom
• The Crude History of Mabel’s Eyelashes
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 27 – June 2
• Dinosaur Fever – Sinclair’s Icon
• Halliburton and the Healdton Oilfield
• First Nebraska Oil Well
• Santa Rita taps Permian Basin
• First Oil Book
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 20 – 26
• Adding Wings to the Iron Horse
• Carbon Black & Oilfield Crayons
• Remarkable Nellie Bly’s Oil Drum
• Exploiting North Texas Oil Fever
• Wayne’s Self-Measuring Pump
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 13 – 19
• Cherry Grove Mystery Well
• Great Oil Boom of Lima, Ohio
• Golden Driller of Tulsa
• Hugoton Natural Gas Museum
• Louisiana Oil City Museum
• This Week in Petroleum History: May 6 – 12
• Confederates attack Oilfield
• ConocoPhillips Petroleum Museums
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 29 – May 5
• Merit Badge for Geology
• Offshore Rig Patent of 1869
• Standard Oil Whiting Refinery
• American-Asiatic Oil Corporation
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 22 – 28
• Shooters – A “Fracking” History
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 15 – 21
• Discovering Los Angeles Oilfields
• All Pumped Up – Oilfield Technology
• Rouseville 1861 Oil Well Fire
• First Oklahoma Oil Well
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 8 – 14
• Dramatic Oil Company
• Anadarko Basin in Depth
• This Week in Petroleum History: April 1 – 7
• First North Dakota Oil Well
• Central Oil Shale Refining Company
• This Week in Petroleum History: March 25 – 31