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oil well [′ȯil ‚wel] (petroleum engineering) A hole drilled (usually vertically) into an oil reservoir for the purpose of recovering the oil trapped in porous formations. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| An 1855 advertisement for Kier's Rock Oil, a patent medicine whose key ingredient was petroleum bubbling up from salt wells near Pittsburgh, urged customers to buy soon before "this wonderful product is depleted from Nature's laboratory" The ad appeared four years before Pennsylvania's first oil well was drilled. Once life was like this for oil workers in Texas, where roadside oil wells were symbols of a new American prosperity. Scofield formed California Star Oil Works, and with skilled oil man Alex Mentry, tapped the first commercial oil well in California - Pico No. |
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