https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/ Oil History is Energy Education Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-5378 Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:58:57 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-5378 […] Making Hole – Drilling Technology (American Oil & Gas Historical Society). “Petroleum industry answers to necessity and opportunity for finding oil and natural gas at greater depths.” […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-5326 Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:02:33 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-5326 […] The well’s historic significance rests on the “development of well drilling tools and practices, which became almost immediately standard equipment used by many other well drillers in the new salt industry” aoghs.org/ […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-5246 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 01:31:58 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-5246 […] storage/manipulation: Depending on the depth of storage, simple oil derricks can extract the hydrocarbons with metalworking capabilities comparable to Europe/Americas between […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-5240 Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:28:09 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-5240 […] Making Hole – Drilling Technology […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-4843 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 17:49:17 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-4843 […] Curiosity adjusted its drilling technique to recover mineral samples. The six-wheeled rover spudded later wells using “low-percussion” to make sure the rock did not shatter during drilling. Curiosity’s design will serve as the basis for a Mars rover planned for 2020. Learn more about terrestrial drilling history in Making Hole – Drilling Technology. […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-4754 Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:09:41 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-4754 […] hole drilling in France in 1863,” noted oil historian Samuel Pees in 2004. Learn more about Making Hole – Drilling Technology and visit Pennsylvania’s historic oil region and the Drake Well Museum in […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-4752 Sat, 07 Jul 2018 21:11:32 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-4752 […] 1909 the new Hughes two-cone drill bit was entering the oil field and was so successful that by 1914 it was in use in eleven U.S. states […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/technology/oil-well-drilling-technology/#comment-4532 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:30:59 +0000 http://aoghs.principaltechnologies.com/?p=366#comment-4532 […] Making Hole – Drilling Technology – … – Oil well drilling technology has evolved from the ancient spring pole to percussion cable-tools to the modern rotary rigs that drill miles into the earth. […]

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