October 9, 1865
- Samuel Van Syckel laid the first underground two-inch oil pipeline
with three relay pumps, 5.5 miles between the wells and the railroad
between Oil Creek and Pithole, PA; carried eighty barrels of oil an
hour; teamsters turned out in fury, dug up and cut the pipe so that the
oil would be lost; armed guard was stationed to hold teamsters in check.
May 4, 1869 - Thomas F. Rowland, of Greenpoint, NY,
received a patent for a "Rock Drill" ("Improved Submarine
Drilling-Apparatus"); offshore oil-drill rig.
1919 - Erle P. Halliburton
establishes the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company in Oklahoma;
1962 - acquired Brown & Root following Herman Brown's death.
1919 - Conrad and Marcel
Schlumberger and their father found the Société de Prospection Electrique
(later named Schlumber Limited).
1929 - James L. Anderson and Robert
S. Kerr formed Anderson & Kerr Drilling Company in Ada, OK; 1937
- Dean A. McGee joined company; 1946 - name
changed to Kerr-McGee; August 2006 - acquired by Andarko
Petroleum for $16.4 billion.
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(Hunting Plc), Edited by Penelope Hunting (1991).
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(Interstate Oil Pipe Line Company), John Loos (1959).
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(Noble Drilling Corporation), Jeffrey L. Rodengen (2001).
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Stuff Enterprises, 200 p.). Noble Drilling Corporation--History;
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(Santa Fe International), James L. Schefter (1990).
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Taylor (1954).
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Rockies. (Vancouver, BC: Trans Mountain Oil Pipe Line Co., 107
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