https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/indiana-natural-gas-boom/ Oil History is Energy Education Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:44:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/indiana-natural-gas-boom/#comment-5325 Fri, 28 May 2021 13:57:57 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=539#comment-5325 […] struck natural gas at seven hundred feet in Portland, Indiana, lighting an eight-foot blaze that, according to the local paper, was “allowed to burn for some time for the edification of the multitude who jostled about, fell […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/indiana-natural-gas-boom/#comment-5109 Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:07:50 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=539#comment-5109 […] for lamps. Both coal gas and kerosene were in high demand, and new supplies of fuel were needed. Natural gas was prevalent in the United States, but at the time, no one had developed an effective means of using the resource. It was highly […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/indiana-natural-gas-boom/#comment-5108 Wed, 18 May 2016 11:01:04 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=539#comment-5108 […] Indiana. Ten years earlier, in 1876, in the search for coal, W.W. Worthington and George Carter bored a test core in Delaware […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/indiana-natural-gas-boom/#comment-5107 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:43:00 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=539#comment-5107 George Warren Carter was my great great Grandfather & left quite a legacy behind. He was a true entrepreneur!

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