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First Oil Well

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First Oil Well may refer to:

  • Bibiheybət (Bibi-Heybat), near Baku, Azerbaijan, is the site of the first ever mechanically drilled oil well (1846) [1]


  • Village Bóbrka, near Krosno, Poland, is the site of one of the first oil wells (1854). Polish inventor Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz designed the machines.



  • Drake Well Museum, site of the American first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania (1859).



  • Dammam No. 7, the first commercial oil well in Saudi Arabia (1938).