Tag: beginning of the oil industry
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Know Your History: World’s First Commercial Oil Well
In 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Edwin Drake struck oil, captured it, and established the first commercial oil well in the world. Drake’s well. Here it is in August of 2020: Western Pennsylvania became the oil capital of the world for the next decade. The oil rush was on. Scores of wells dotted the aptly named…
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Know Your History: The Largest Oil Producing Region in America
No, I’m not talking about Texas. Pennsylvania. What, you say? Did you ever wonder why there is “Quaker State Oil”? How about Pennzoil? Or Penn Oil? Or Oil City, Pennsylvania? Or Petronia, PA. Or even the humble village where I grew up – Great Belt, PA? You may not realize it, but western Pennsylvania was,…
