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Editorial And Meeting Report – Titusville, Pennsylvania, William R. Brice, Editor
Edwin L. Drake (1819-1880); His Life And Legacy, William R. Brice
Postage Stamp Attempt Unsuccessful, Jeff Spencer
Teamsters And Oil Scouts: Two Precious (But Quick-Lived) Occupations Within the Early Days Of Pennsylvania Oil, Paul Adomites
The 1906 Kane Gasoline Properly Mckean County Pennsylvania, Jeff A. Spencer
Petroleum Pioneers Of Pittsburgh, Alfred N. Mann
Oil Under Canvas, Denis Stonham
The primary Experiences Of Oil In Oklahoma, Raymond P. Sorenson
A Crude Lesson, Kathy J. Flaherty
The Dawning Of Geophysical Exploration, Tom K. Fulton And Haynie Stringer
Stratigraphy And The Cartoonist Of 1865, Mark Aldrich And Michele Aldrich
Drake Well 150th Anniversary Commemorative Painting, Jack Hanzer
The Petroleum Business In Trade Cards, Buying and selling Cards, And Comedian Books, Jeff A. Spencer
Was Colonel Drake A Hero?, Kathy J. Flaherty
Geology And Oil Exploration The Research Of Giovanni Capellini In Romania, Francesco Gerali
Yankee Doodle Drake, Kathy J. Flaherty
Recollections Portable Seismic Begins A Life In The sphere, Jon R. Horton
Hello Wanda How Oil Journalist Wanda Jablonski Was The Matchmaker That Made OPEC, Herman K. Trabish
Affect Of The Late Nineteenth Century Gas Boom On Delaware County, Indiana, Constantina Lyla Spath
Abstracts 2009 Worldwide Symposium, Titusville, Pennsylvania
Petroleum History Institute 2009 Awards
In Memoriam
Meeting Information 2010 Oil Symposium & Subject Trip April 29th – May 1st Lafayette, Louisiana
Oil-Industry History Author Pointers
EDITORIAL AND Assembly REPORT – TITUSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, Could 14-16, 2009 RETURN TO THE VALLEY THAT Changed THE WORLD
William R. Brice, Editor Oil-Trade Historical past
Abstract: On August 27, 1859, “Uncle Billy” Smith decided to interrupt his rule of not working on Sunday to be able to verify a properly he was drilling beneath the supervision of Mr. Edwin Drake, formerly of new Haven, Connecticut, and a retired railroad conductor. Nobody, neither Smith nor Drake, not even the brand new Haven buyers, could have imagined or predicted how that simple act of checking the properly would change the world. But Smith found that at a depth of sixty nine feet, oil was rising up the well pipe. In 2009 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of that discovery and the creation of the fashionable oil and fuel industry that followed. Certainly there have been other discoveries of oil in wells that had been dug and in salt water wells that have been drilled, however none of those discoveries captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and the general public alike as did this easy act of dropping a small can down a nicely pipe and bringing up oil. If this retired conductor, with no engineering background, and a simple blacksmith and salt effectively driller could find oil, then that alternative was open to anybody, and literally 1000’s of those anyones flooded into the Titusville area. Certainly one of our area trip stops, Pithole, confirmed how rapidly towns may develop, after which die just as rapidly. The papers in our symposia advised the story of Drake and “Uncle Billy,” and the stories of others who adopted, who have been accountable for the idea of drilling, and who convinced Drake to go to Titusville to manage the drilling project. Our area trips took us to the location of the Drake Effectively and other places that performed a job in the development of the modern petroleum trade.
EDWIN L. DRAKE (1819-1880) HIS LIFE AND LEGACY*
William R. Brice
116 Luna Lane, Johnstown, PA 15904
Abstract: Edwin Drake was not amongst those who reaped nice rewards from the early oil trade, though his actions supplied the spark that began that very trade which has benefitted so many people around the world. Instead, he ended his life in poverty and illness. Drake was a 39 yr outdated retired railroad conductor when he was hired by a fledgling Connecticut oil company to supervise the drilling of a nicely in seek for oil on the banks of Oil Creek in 1858. With little formal schooling, he was, nevertheless, a sensible and tenacious one that was a great problem solver. Sadly, even with these qualities, he was not profitable in his varied business ventures after he left the oil fields. However one hundred fifty years in the past, he utilized these attributes to his place as the overseer of area operations; in modern phrases he was a challenge manager for the company. As the supervisor of that challenge, in the face of repeated failures and difficulties, Drake persisted, till, actually within the last hours of the operation, the work was successful and oil was found in the properly pipe. For what is believed to be the primary time in history, a nicely had been efficiently drilled particularly in the hunt for oil, and Drake was the man behind the undertaking. Due to his actions, right now that well is known as the Drake Effectively. Who this man was and how he came to be on the banks of Oil Creek on the twenty seventh of August in 1859 is the subject of this text.
* Excerpts modified from: Delusion, Legend, Reality; Edwin Laurentine Drake and the Early Oil Industry, by William R. Brice; Oil Area Alliance, Oil City, Pennsylvania, 2009 – used with permission. www.oilregion.org. Parts of this materials have been additionally printed within the Oilfield Journal, 2008/2009, p. 29-59.
Teamsters and Oil Scouts: Two Invaluable (however Brief-Lived) Occupations in the Early Days of Pennsylvania Oil*
Paul Adomites
1139 Route 38 Emlenton PA 16373
Summary: As the United States oil trade burst into life within weeks of the oil-drilling discovery of Drake, Bissell and Townsend, its structure was determined by strategies often as hit-and-miss as the wildcatters’ hunches on the websites of the wells themselves. Nearly every part concerning the nascent industry had to be invented, nearly on the spot, if not borrowed from somewhere else. From dwelling conditions to monetary preparations to technical innovations, every sprang up, was tested and just as quickly modified or discarded. The only rule was easy: if it labored it caught. Two of the extra fascinating, if transient, jobs that had been born within the thunderclap of vitality of the early oil trade have been oil teamsters and oil scouts. One disappeared immediately and utterly, slugged out of existence by the one-two punch of expertise and industrial benefit. The opposite went away, however only for a while, in the end returning in a new guise to satisfy new wants and nonetheless of significance right this moment.
* Tailored from his upcoming guide, Pennsylvania Crude: Boomtowns and Oil Barons.
THE 1906 KANE Gasoline Nicely McKEAN COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
Jeff A. Spencer
675 Piney Creek Road Bellville, TX 77418
Abstract: Natural gasoline wells, or gassers, of the late 1800s and early 1900s often resulted in impressive shows of roaring fuel that homeowners would ignite to impress investors or entice new industries to an area. In the course of the gas boom days of the Lima-Indiana trend of northwest Ohio and eastern Indiana, excursion trains transported 1000’s of vacationers and businessmen to the nearby towns to witness the towering flames. Uncontrolled gasoline flows, with or without accompanying fireplace, had been a extra critical matter, though in addition they often turned vacationer points of interest. These include the 1906 Caney gas well of Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and the 1906 Kane well, of McKean County, Pennsylvania. The Keelor Chemical Firm drilled this well a number of miles northwest of the town of Kane, close to the village of Wetmore. In September of 1906, the higher portion of the derrick was blown to pieces as the escaping fuel threw instruments out of the opening. The stream of gas was estimated between forty,000,000 and a hundred,000,000 cubic toes per day. Newspaper articles and postcard captions of the Kane effectively include related phrases to these used in other early fuel nicely tourist attractions; the best effectively ever drilled, the monster gasoline nicely, and the effectively whose roar might be heard for miles. This fuel gusher flowed for roughly two months, apparently never catching fireplace, before being brought beneath control. A pipeline transported the gasoline to Buffalo, New York and the nicely produced for 4 or five years.
PETROLEUM PIONEERS OF PITTSBURGH
Alfred N. Mann
1251 Sheridan Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15206
Abstract: It is common information that the world’s first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake in 1859. But it’s just a little known proven fact that the nation’s first oil refinery was built in Pittsburgh. Even before Drake’s oil well was drilled, petroleum was gathered at natural seeps, and it was an unwelcome by-product of salt recovered from wells drilled all through the area. Enterprising settlers burned the crude oil in lamps, thickened it with flour to grease wagon wheels and equipment, and even used it for medicinal functions. However, there have been no major applications for oil till it was refined, and that began with the work of Samuel Kier in Pittsburgh where he built and operated the Western Hemisphere’s first refinery to supply lamp gas. Kier, as well as several others from Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, together with Michael Benedum, Charles Lockhart, John Galey, James Guffey, William Larimer Mellon, and George Westinghouse, enormously expanded the scope and magnitude of the early power trade.
OIL Under CANVAS*
Denis Stonham
107 Lansdowne Lane, London, SE7 8TN, England, UK
Summary: Most persons are conversant in the picture of very massive supertankers plying the world’s oceans delivering oil to shores far from the oil’s supply. But few would image this product being delivered by sailing vessel, but for the first 50 or so years of the trendy industry those ships had been certainly the most important worldwide carriers of bulk oil. Although the first major business shipment after Drake’s discovery was 3000 barrels of oil carried across the Atlantic on the Elizabeth Watts in 1861, as early as 1863 crusing ships have been being re-fitted or designed to hold oil in bulk, not in actual barrels. Thus from the 1860s until the early twentieth century, sailing ships had been used to transport oil in bulk the world over. But by the second decade, the fickle nature of wind and currents had given strategy to the reliability of steam and the era of oil tankers underneath sail got here to an finish.
* Originally published in the British Journal Archive.
The primary Studies OF OIL IN OKLAHOMA
Raymond P. Sorenson
1912 S. Cheyenne Avenue, Tulsa, Ok 74119
Summary: One hundred fifty years ago, when the 1859 Drake well in Pennsylvania offered the spark that launched the trendy petroleum industry, Oklahoma already had oil manufacturing from a hand dug nicely in Mayes County, and at the least nine publications had mentioned oil seeps in southern Oklahoma. By the point Oklahoma became a state and a serious oil producer in the early twentieth century, these reports had been largely forgotten, and have been missed in the trendy geological literature. The Dragoon Expedition (Wheelock 1834) first reported rock oil in Oklahoma at seeps probably positioned near the Loco and Healdton oil fields. Lt. Johnston of Fort Washita subsequent reported a steeply dipping sandstone seeping oil in the northern Arbuckle Mountains at an 1845 geological convention. Lt. Johnston’s report was summarized in a number of commercial books related to coal and oil from 1848 to 1865. Chickasaw Indian Brokers said in several annual stories (Upshaw 1845; 1846; 1848; Smith, 1853) that two or more oil springs in southern Oklahoma have been utilized by the native inhabitants for medicinal functions. Michler (1850) talked about these medicinal springs in a navy expedition report and confirmed Oil Spring road main west from Fort Washita on what is probably the primary published map to depict oil in Oklahoma. Randolph Marcy, returning from his 1852 expedition to search out the source of the Purple River, traveled through the Wichita Mountains to the realm of future Fort Sill and found oil inside igneous outcrops in the speedy vicinity of Drugs Bluffs.
THE DAWNING OF GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION
Tom Okay. Fulton, Seismic Consultant (deceased)
Haynie Stringer11106 St. Marks, Sugar Land, Texas 77478
Abstract: The use of Geophysics allows one to explore past the featureless plain or beneath the sea. As such, it drives down the price of exploration. Dominant folks involved in the creation of the Geophysical Exploration Industry include Everette Lee De Golyer, Lugar Mintrop, Clarence Karcher, and Frank Rieber. Whereas the primary was primarily an oil man and the others scientists, all had been superb salesmen. Events of the 1920s led to the 1930 formation of The Society of Exploration Geophysicists in Houston. Research materials for this pictorial historical past, consists of observations of historian George Elliott Sweet, The Historical past of Geophysical Prospecting, and other sources as well as artifacts of the Geophysical Society of Houston. The latter embrace Pure Oil prospect reports of the Geophysical Analysis Corporation based by De Golyer and Karcher as part of Amerada Corporation and footage taken by John R. Schander, VP of the German agency North American Exploration Firm. By the end of 1929 De Golyer and Karcher reported that 44 salt domes had been positioned with refraction seismic and eleven by the Torsion Balance. These discoveries, coupled with different discoveries in Texas and elsewhere from 1894 to 1930, produced a glut of oil. This, mixed with the stock market crash in 1929, resulted within the departure of the German Corporations (NAMEX in 1930 and Seismos in 1931). Schander’s photos document the work with both Torsion Steadiness and Seismic in addition to many oil fields in the US and Europe http:// www.gshtx.org/en/photographs/albums/v/22. The Geophysical Society of Houston and the SEG have instruments like those used in the Dawning of Geophysical Exploration.
STRATIGRAPHY AND THE CARTOONIST OF 1865
Mark Aldrich and Michele Aldrich
24 Elm Street, Hatfield, MA 01038
Summary: The humorist with his or her pen isn’t very far behind the scientist, as properly demonstrated in a cartoon that appeared in the April 1865 situation of Yankee Notions, a middle-brow regional humor journal published in New York City from 1852 to 1875. The cheap pulp pages have deteriorated over time, and few libraries saved copies of the journal. The most extensive set of issues is in the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts; the picture is from their copy. The AAS is renowned among historians for its holdings of American newspapers and periodicals.
THE PETROLEUM Trade IN Commerce Playing cards, Buying and selling Playing cards, AND Comedian BOOKS
Jeff A. Spencer
675 Piney Creek Rd. Bellville, TX 77418
Abstract: Trading cards, commerce cards, and comic books have included the petroleum business of their promoting and storylines. Victorian commerce cards were a reasonable way for merchants to advertise their products within the late 1800s and early 1900s. These cards instantly turned standard collectibles and had been typically mounted in albums and traded with friends. During this period, most households and companies depended on kerosene for lighting. Early trade cards marketed kerosene, as well as the varied types of kerosene containers. In addition to illuminating oil, other early commerce playing cards advertised lubricating and heating oils. Within the late 1880s, plain items of cardboard have been used as stiffeners in cigarette packages. Promoting was quickly added and the favored cigarette card was born. These cards have been collected and traded, and by the thirties, tens of millions of cigarette cards had been issued. Common themes included sports activities, aviation, animals, military, and industries. The primary British firm to issue the playing cards was W. D. and H. O. Wills (1887), and so they included a cigarette card of the Summerland, California offshore pier oil wells in a 1916 collection. Two other notable British cigarette card advertisers, John Participant and Sons, and Godfrey Phillips, Limited, also issued playing cards with petroleum themes within the 1920s and 1930s.
Goudy Gum Company of Boston launched a 1933 series of Indian Gum playing cards that included one with the caption, Osage oil wells. Two Superman cards from a very popular 1940-41 Gum Inc. series, depicted oil area fires and explosions with Superman saving the day! Many collectors consider this trading card set the top non-sport card set of the time. Coca-Cola issued twenty card-dimension stickers and an related album in a 1942 set, “Oil – a fashionable necessity”. Oil Properly Willie, one among the many Howdy Doody tv show characters, was included in a 1951 collection of 15 buying and selling cards from the again of Royal Dessert packages. Comic books with oil discipline story lines embody a 1951 Dale Evans problem, The Oil Rustlers, where Dale exhibits her ability with a lariat to capture the villains. Jerry Lewis discovers oil in a 1969 challenge of the comic guide, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis. Richie Rich , the poor little wealthy boy, comedian books exhibited a number of covers with artistic oil properly gushers, as did an issue of Casper, the friendly ghost.
GEOLOGY AND OIL EXPLORATION THE Research OF GIOVANNI CAPELLINI IN ROMANIA
Francesco Gerali
Accademia Lunigianese di Scienze “Giovanni Capellini” By way of XX Settembre 148 19121 La Spezia, Italy
Abstract: In the nineteenth century the science of geology, via stratigraphic analysis, was slowly clarifying the structure of the subsoil and the deployment of its assets. By the center of that century within the oil analysis there is a gradual enhancements process, motivated by the need to cut back the chance of unsuccessful drilling. The purpose of this text is to look at the appliance of the evidences provided by geology to the nascent oil industry by means of the work of the young Italian geologist Giovanni Capellini (1833-1922) within the southern Carpathians in 1864.
RECOLLECTIONS PORTABLE SEISMIC BEGINS A LIFE IN The field
Jon R. Horton
725 S. Weber; #309 Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Summary: At a turning point in my life in 1974, I veered in the direction of seismic oil exploration, for that seemed to afford a better opportunity than tending bar. That turn has taken me to many locations on the earth that, at the time, I by no means even dreamed existed. As a result I have labored in jungles, deserts, cold weather, rainy weather, and just plain terrible weather, but I do not remorse a minute of it. Not only was life in the sector by no means boring, but I managed to find time, also, to get my writing career began whereas I dragged jugs, checked out seismic traces, survived helicopter crashes, and out ran several very large snakes. So listed here are a few stories and photographs of 30 years or so of dwelling in and across the Dog Home.
Hiya WANDA HOW OIL JOURNALIST WANDA JABLONSKI WAS THE MATCHMAKER THAT MADE OPEC
Herman Okay. Trabish
2763 Mary Avenue, La Crescenta, CA 91214
Abstract: Hey Dolly, a delightful Broadway musical from the 1960s, tells the fictional story of Dolly Levi, a gregarious girl who brings younger people together for comfortable marriages. But Dolly by no means made a marriage as portentous because the one petroleum journalist Wanda Jablonski caused when her introduction of a Venezuelan and a Saudi led to the formation of perhaps probably the most highly effective financial cartel in world historical past. To understand WHY the Group of Petroleum Exporting Nations (OPEC) came to be requires some understanding of the most important political and ideological forces of the 1950s Communism, Capitalism and the Cold War. To know how OPEC got here to be requires some understanding of two men, the lady who launched them, and the attitudes and assumptions of the largest oil firms in the world.
Affect OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Gasoline Boom ON DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA
Constantina Lyla Spath
625 North Elm Street, Muncie Indiana 47305
Summary: The gas and oil business spread west all through the United States following the success of Drake’s nicely in 1859. One of the crucial significantly-impacted areas was East Central Indiana. Delaware County, Indiana, notably benefited from its location within the Trenton Discipline and was successful in attracting main industries to the realm, including Ball Brothers Glass from New York.
