An intended drinking water well at Oil Springs, Ontario found oil in 1858, a year before the Drake well, but it had not been drilled for oil.

The Oil Springs Reservation is an Indian Reservation of the Seneca Nation shared with Cattaraugus County for a total area of only.

* Oil Springs Reservation ( part )

* Oil Springs Reservation, Cattaraugus County

The others are Twombly, Maine, Success, New Hampshire, Oil Springs Reservation, Cattaraugus County, New York, and Monowi, Nebraska.

# REDIRECT Oil Springs Reservation

# REDIRECT Oil Springs Reservation

While some claims of prior art do exist ( e. g., Bóbrka, Poland in 1854, Wietze, Germany in 1857, Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858 ), the Drake Well at Titusville was the first well to be widely copied.

In the New World, the first commercial oil well entered operation in Oil Springs, Ontario in 1858, while the first offshore oil well was drilled in 1896 at the Summerland Oil Field on the California Coast.

Oil Springs Reservation is an Indian reservation of the Seneca tribe located in New York, USA.

Although the reservation is controlled by the Seneca tribe, as of 2005 no tribal members actually live on the Oil Springs Reservation.

CKCO's Sarnia rebroadcaster CKCO-TV-3, on Channel 42 and actually located at Oil Springs, was established in 1975.

These enrolled members live or work on five reservations in New York: the Allegany ( which contains the city of Salamanca ); the Cattaraugus near Gowanda, New York ; the Buffalo Creek Territory located in downtown Buffalo, NY ; the Niagara Falls Territory located in Niagara Falls, New York ; and the Oil Springs Reservation, near Cuba, New York.

Few Seneca reside at the Oil Springs, Buffalo Creek, or Niagara Territories due to the small amount of land at each.

* Village of Oil Springs

Lambton County is the site of North America's first drilled commercial oil well at Oil Springs in 1858.

* Oil Springs ( 226 )- 466, ( 519 )- 834

In 1857 James Miller Williams of Hamilton began distilling some of the " tar " lying around Oil Springs ( located a few kilometers south from Petrolia ), after buying the property rights from Charles Nelson Tripp.

In July or August 1858 he struck an oil deposit in Oil Springs while digging a shallow well, sparking the oil drilling industry.

Petrolia got its start in 1866 when a major oil well was found, resulting in an oil boom that caused many to abandon Oil Springs in favour of this new settlement.

On the north side of the mouth of the Hoh River, across from the Hoh Indian Reservation, the town of Oil City was established in 1911 by Frank W. Johnson and the Olympic Oil Company.

His book about his investigation, Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation ( 1994 ), presents an account of the corruption and murders during this period.

Since investigating the 1925 death of his Osage grandmother during the " Reign of Terror " and publishing Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation ( 1994 ), he has become an enrolled Osage member ; and been active in recruiting and teaching Native American students in journalism.

* Terry P. Wilson, The Underground Reservation: Osage Oil, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

* 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $ 29. 4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers ; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

* 1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer and politician ( Midnight Oil )

* 1980 – President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U. S. economy rebound.

* Abadan Oil Refinery – Home page ( Persian only )

* 1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.

* 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.

* 1831 – Hiram Bond Everest, American co-founder of The Vacuum Oil Company ( d. 1913 )

In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.

Chapter 6 " Extraction of THC and Preparation of Hash Oil " pp. 111 – 122.

Following their Super Bowl championship, the Colts would go onto a 13 – 3 record during the 2007 season and would lose to the San Diego Chargers in the divisional playoffs, which would be the final game the Colts played at the RCA Dome, with the Colts moving into Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.

* 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company ( d. 1937 )

* 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

Binding of Isaac | The Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio, ( 1590 – 1610 ; Oil on canvas ; Uffizi ).

** Universal Tractor Transmission Oil – UTTO

** Super Tractor Oil Universal – STOU – includes engine

* 1991 – Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.

* 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

* 1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an " unreasonable " monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.

* 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.

* 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US $ 10. 53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

* Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo – Natural Gas / Oil

Oil prices 1968 – 2006 ; peak is 1980, with steep decline over 1980s.

* April 13 – Robert O. Anderson, American businessman, founder of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. ( d. 2007 )