https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/ Oil History is Energy Education Tue, 20 May 2025 15:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-5269 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:53:37 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-5269 […] Download Image More @ aoghs.org […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-4795 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:23:39 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-4795 […] “Technology and the “Conroe Crater””. American Oil & Gas Historical Society. Retrieved […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-4574 Sat, 01 Jul 2017 18:22:39 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-4574 […] Troy King in an interview with the Houston Chronicle back in 2005. The lake was created by an oil well explosion back in 1933 but has taken on a new reputation over the […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-4573 Sat, 01 Jul 2017 16:12:13 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-4573 […] Troy King in an interview with the Houston Chronicle back in 2005. The lake was created by an oil well explosion back in 1933 but has taken on a new reputation over the […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-4431 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:57:25 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-4431 […] a compass rose down the hole to figure out where you were.  This first gained credibility in 1933 when a relief well was drilled to stem a blowout in the town of Conroe, TX. The ability to point the bit in a certain direction and at a certain angle (Directional Drilling), […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-4313 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:19:00 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-4313 My great-grandfather worked there

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-3750 Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:10:00 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-3750 When going to school in Conroe in the 60’s we’d skip school on Fridays and go skinny dipping in crater lake. The boys never knew where we were?

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/directional-drilling/#comment-1676 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:07:00 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=561#comment-1676 My Daughter and Son have some Stock that they inherited from their Grandfather ,, and was lead to this site , It was in the name of Torch Energy Corporation but cannot find any Information to go on ,, if anyone could give me anything to go on I would appreciate .

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