The Chinese built oil wells and drilled for oil in or about 347 AD
First Modern Commercial Oil Well
In 1848, Russian engineer F. N. Semyenov drilled for oil on the Aspheron Peninsula northeast of Baku Asia. By 1861, this first oil well produced 90 percent of the world's oil at the time.
In 1854, Igancy Lukasiewicz, Titus Trzecieski and Mikolja Klobassa joined forces to establish an oil mine in Bobrka, Poland.
First Oil Refinery
In 1857, the first oil refinery was opened in Ploiesti, Romania. Romania officially became the first country to refine crude oil.
First Oil Well in North America
In 1858, James Miller Williams dug for oil in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada. Williams is also credited with the creation of The Canada Oil Company in 1860.
In 1857, Edwin Drake was granted a lease for the Hibbard Farm near Titusville, Pennsylvania, after a favorable report filed by Yale chemist Benjamin Silliman Jr stating that oil was located there.
A year later in 1858, The Seneca Oil Company of New Haven, Connecticut, purchased the Drake lease of The Hibbard Farm near Titusville.
The Seneca Oil Comapny sent Edwin Drake to drill the first oil well on the Hibbard Farm located near Titusville, PA in1859. They hit the mother lode.
Edwin Drake and The Seneca Oil Company are credited with the launching of the modern petroleum industry.
This led to the oil booms in Texas, Oklahoma,and California.
In 1901, The Persian Government awarded British businessman William D'Arcy a lease so he could explore for oil.
British Oil Company and Burmah Oil began drilling for oil in 1905 and they found large amounts of oil.
Not to be out done by The British,The Standard Oil Company of California was granted oil concessions by Saudi Arabia in 1933. The Standard Oil Company of California began to explore for oil.
While World War Two was raging a prominent American geologist Everette DeGolyer reported to the U.S. State Department in 1944 that Saudi Arabia was sitting on top of more than 25 million barrels of oil.
A year after World War Two ended, in 1946, The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (later renamed Exxon) and Socony-Vacuum (now Mobil Oil) invested in the Saudi oil fields.
Finding Sauda Arabia loaded with oil,Standard, Exxon and Mobil merged to form a new company named Aramco and began drilling for oil in Saudi Arabia.
Iraq was virutally touched by oil exploration however in 1927, The Iraq Petroleum Company (owned by The United States, British, French,and Dutch oil companies) petitioned the Iraqic government for premission to drill for oil in the Mosul province of Kirkuk, Iraq.
When oil was discovered in Basra in 1938, The Iraqi government seized control of The Iraq Petroleum Company.
Today's Petroleum Industry
Saudi Arabia, the United States of America and Russia are the top three oil producing countries in the world.
Eighty percent of the worlds readily accessible oil reserves are located in the Middle East.
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OGEM Solids Control)
Address: NO.2 Jingxi Road,Lunan District,Tangshan city,Hebei
province,China
Tel: 86-315-8676484
Fax: 86-315-2648099
Zip Code: 063000
Email: ogem2@ogemsolidscontrol.com
Website: http://www.ogemsolidscontrol.com/
Skype:burning_lee
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