Then in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled the world's first oil well in Titusville, Pa.
The most immediate task is extinguishing oil well fires, followed by environmental assessments and cleanups.
Ideally, this new discovery would lead to a tiny, self-contained oil well: In comes plants, out comes fuels or chemicals.
Ideally, this would lead to a tiny, self-contained oil well: In comes plants, out comes fuels or chemicals.
In Acadia Parish, rescuers saved close to 80 people from rising water, including 20 at an oil well.
"If you go to Beverly Hills High school, you see an oil well right on the campus, " Ershaghi said.
If left to its own devices an oil well will deliver only about 10% of the crude it contains.
The rig was owned by Transocean ( RIG), but it was BP ( BP) who owned the doomed oil well.
Sudanese say their relationship with China is deeper than any oil well.
We received two nominations for "Hellfighters, " the lackluster 1968 John Wayne vehicle based on the life of oil well fire wrangler Red Adair.
"Oil and gas prices are high, and they are here to stay, " says Plummer, standing in shirtsleeves in front of a working oil well.
They still believe that, even after the Wall Street crash, even after the BP oil well blew, that we should just keep a hands-off attitude.
There is little geological risk, as there would be with a traditional oil well, because the location of tar sands has been known for decades.
Safe to say that the Department of Defense does not have a submersible with arms to shut off the valve of a deep-water oil well.
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For the last few weeks we have all been watching with horror the spreading oil slick from the BP oil well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
While Gulf Coast residents are applying for payments onshore, offshore BP has renewed "fishing operations" on the sunken, crippled Macondo oil well, BP spokeswoman Catherine Hill said Monday.
The whole construction is similar to an oil well on land, with the weight of the drilling fluid designed to contain the geological pressures deep in the ground.
Chevron's admission that a spill from a high-pressure Shetland oil well could leak at a higher rate than BP's Macondo well (1, 500 metres below the surface) didn't help.
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Washington (CNN) -- The public may have seen the last video images of the failed blowout preventer from the BP oil well disaster, as authorities expressed possible security concerns.
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That's what happened to Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people )'s oil well on Russia's Sakhalin Island and to aes' power plants in Kazakhstan.
For nine months the ship Transocean Discoverer Spirit used 360-degree rotating propellers to hold itself steady in the 3, 500-foot-deep water as diamond-tipped bits cut the deepest oil well ever--6.5 miles down.
Back in March, Providence Resources revealed that its tests at Barryroe had confirmed there was enough oil at the site to declare it as the first commercially viable oil well in Ireland.
Shell, which discovered and started the country's oil well in the late 1950s, has been heavily criticized by activists and local communities over oil spills and close ties to government security forces.
Chevron miscalculated its drilling of its Frade field last November, an oil well just under the ocean floor in the Santos Basin in Brazil, about 70 kilometers off coastal Rio de Janeiro.
At the current pace, in five days the amount of oil spilled will surpass the 75, 000 barrels spilled when a Union Oil well blew out off the coast of Santa Barbara in 1969.
"People are saying 'we thought we bought our house in suburbia, or at least exurbia, and now someone is drilling an oil well here, " said Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director Matt Lepore.
The report does not rule out other possible contributors to Gulf War illness -- including low-level exposure to nerve agents and close proximity to oil well fires -- though it fails to establish any clear link.
However, in one case the judges ordered a subsidiary, Shell Nigeria, to compensate a farmer for breach of duty of care by making it too easy for saboteurs to open an oil well head that leaked on to his land.
Simple math shows that a marginal gas or oil well has a power density at least 22 times that of a wind turbine while a nuclear power plant has a power density that is more than 8 times that of a solar photovoltaic facility.
Washington (CNN) -- Oil giant BP and contractor Halliburton knew of potential flaws in the cement slurry used to reinforce the oil well below the Deepwater Horizon rig before it exploded in April, according to a letter Thursday from the lead investigator for a federal probe of the Gulf oil disaster.
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