by Bruce Wells | Oct 13, 2025 | This Week in Petroleum History
October 13, 1917 – U.S. Oil & Gas Association founded –
Oklahoma independent producers established the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association in Tulsa, Oklahoma, six months after the United States entered World War I. The organization, today the United States Oil & Gas Association, was founded by petroleum industry leaders Frank Phillips, E.W. Marland, Bill Skelly, and Robert Kerr to increase petroleum supplies for the Allies during the war. The association in 1919 formed the Oklahoma-Kansas Division, now the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. (more…)
by Bruce Wells | Jan 28, 2025 | Petroleum Transportation
Library of Congress photo tells many early automobile tales.
Picturing oil history: Details of an image in the Library of Congress digital collection offer insights into the early U.S. petroleum industry.
A single 1921 black-and-white photograph of a Washington, D.C., suburban gas station features petroleum products and transportation infrastructure just 20 years after the first U.S. auto show. Printed from an eight-inch by six-inch glass negative, the image features Takoma Park, Maryland, and its railroad station on the northeastern border of the District of Columbia.
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