Comments on: First Texas Oil Well

By: Deep Sea Oil - Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse

Deep Sea Oil - Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:33:32 +0000

[…] first oil well drilled in Texas in 1866 was a little over 100 feet deep: the No 1 Isaac C. Skillern struck oil at […]

By: Many signs of peak oil and decline – Olduvai.ca

Many signs of peak oil and decline – Olduvai.ca — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:22:08 +0000

[…] The first oil well drilled in Texas in 1866 was a little over 100 feet deep: the No 1 Isaac C. Skillern struck oil at a depth that, from today’s perspective, is ridiculously shallow. […]

By: Many signs of peak oil and decline | Peak Energy & Resources, Climate Change, and the Preservation of Knowledge

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:12:12 +0000

[…] The first oil well drilled in Texas in 1866 was a little over 100 feet deep: the No 1 Isaac C. Skillern struck oil at a depth that, from today’s perspective, is ridiculously shallow. […]

By: Object: Oil Sales Kit - UTSA Institute Of Texan Cultures

Object: Oil Sales Kit - UTSA Institute Of Texan Cultures — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:56:55 +0000

[…] interrupted his work and he had to wait until after his service in the Confederate Army to begin the Melrose Petroleum Company. In the end, the company failed from lack of profits and the area was abandoned. From that point […]

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Object: Oil Sales Kit | Institute of Texan Cultures Collections Blog — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:29:56 +0000

By: Andrew Gatewood

Andrew Gatewood — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:12:00 +0000

Great article. Thank you. I’ve recently read that Rev. B T Kavanaugh located two points with his instruments (procured from his brother) in Nacogdoches Co previous to his arrival in Beaumont in Aug 1866. He claimed oil could be found at about 94 feet and boring was done but the supply wasn’t that great. He thought more could have been found by going deeper. [The Houston Post of 11 Oct 1903 has letter he wrote to Beaumont Lumberman newspaper in 1878 about earlier findings]