First Oil Well

First Oil Well may refer to:

  • 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).
  • Mosoare, near Târgu Ocna, Romania, the site of the first mechanically drilled oil well in Romania (1861 or 1963).
  • Dammam No. 7, the first commercial oil well in Saudi Arabia (1938).
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