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In today’s world crude oil has become a necessity. It is the world’s primary source of energy and is used for transportation, generating power, and manufacturing goods that people use in their daily lives. However, oil is not easily accessible as it is trapped within the rocks deep within the earth. In order to provide the world with its energy needs, the oil must be drilled out of the reservoirs. This was first accomplished in the year 1859 when Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, used a drilling rig to specifically produce oil on the banks of Oil Creek, near Titusville, Pennsylvania. (American Oil & Gas Historical Society, n.d., para. 5). This discovery by Edwin Drake helped revolutionize the oil and gas industry. The “discovery …show more content…

Directional drilling is a drilling process that is used to drill multiple wells from a single point on the ground at several different angles in order to reach more reservoir rock and produce more oil and gas. Figure 1 is an example of directional drilling in which several different wells are drilled from the same derrick. Development of this technology significantly transformed the oil and gas industry as it allowed for more production of crude oil and gas at a much lower cost. While directional drilling was first introduced in the year 1920, it did not make any significant improvements until later. “Since 1968, there has been a steady progression of improvements in deep directional drilling tools and techniques” (Thompson, 1979, p. …show more content…

One of the primary applications of directional drilling is that multiple wells can be drilled from a single location. This technique has made a huge impact in the Arctic ocean, as an “optimum number of wells from a single platform or artificial island” were drilled to produce more oil and gas (Society of Petroleum Engineers, n.d., para. 3). This has helped companies by reducing the costs related to drilling several vertical wells. Furthermore, drilling multiple wells from a single location has also significantly lowered the environmental

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One cold January day on the hill Spindletop, the discovery of a black, thick liquid changed the future of Texas. In January of 1901, oil was stumbled on in Texas. In the beginning of the discovery, the profit went to the Easterners, then it changed. Wildcatters, who were investors that put their money into oil rigs, spread across the state and placed oil rigs everywhere. During this time it was rare to get very rich off of oil because of the dry holes and loss of money.

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The Texas oil industry began by Lyne T. Barret who struck oil known as petroleum which is a fossil fuel, fossil fuels are things that have decomposed into the ground that have been compressed and heated up in the ground, and after millions of years, people dig it up with derricks which are towers that support oil drilling equipment and put it in a refinery where crude oil becomes pure and they use it for trains for the Texas railroad to travel faster and farther. In 1904, the Spindletop strike marked the start of the Texas oil industry. Patillo Higgins, a brick factory owner, believed there would be oil at Spinletop Hill. There was an engineer who believed in the Patillo idea and in 1901 Anthony F. Lucas drilled into the hill. In 1904, the

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Oil has been drilled and refined for hundreds of years dating back to just a few hundred years After Death. One of the first dated examples of oil was 347 A.D where oil wells were dug a few hundred feet deep in China using bamboo as mining/drilling tools. Just after the year eighteen hundred the Ruffner brothers drilled oil to make brine in West Virginia. But the first major discovery or current day oil was drilled in eighteen forty eight on a peninsula in Asia, while America's first oil was drilled in eighteen fifty nine in the ground of Pennsylvania by Colonel Edwin Drake. Many different types of oil were used long ago (History of the Oil Industry).

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