The Conoco Museum in Ponca City, Oklahoma celebrates a history of risk, innovation, and mergers. The museum follows the history of the international petroleum juggernaut from humble beginnings to exceptional growth, acquisitions, and partnerships. Conoco traces its origin to the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. Continental was founded in 1875 by Isaac Blake and four…
In case there was any question about the subject matter of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, the 100 cattle brands decorating its entrance and iconic old oil derrick should remove any doubt. This is a history museum for and about northern Texas. Located in Canyon, just south of Amarillo, on the West Texas A&M University campus,…
In Bartlesville, Oklahoma is a memorial to an industry giant born from the oilfields in Oklahoma. The Phillips Petroleum Company Museum is a two story structure filled with artifacts, dioramas, and tales of the history of Phillips Petroleum from the early speculation in the Oklahoma oil fields to the 66ers basketball team. The Company Phillips Petroleum Co. was founded…
Only a few miles from the Drake Well Museum is the remains of a remarkable oil boom town that went bust in less than two years of existence. Pithole, Pennsylvania was initially farm land before oil was pumped out of Drake’s Well. With the discovery of a process to extract petroleum from the ground at…
Pennsylvania might not be the first place one thinks of when considering oil, but it was the first place that oil was drilled in America. On August 27, 1859, in Titusville, Pennsylvania next to Oil Creek, Edwin Drake completed the first commercial oil well. The Drake Well Museum preserves the original well and celebrates the…
Before Howard Hughes Jr. was flying airplanes and making movies, his father Howard Hughes Sr. was revolutionizing the drill bit market. Though his father was a judge, Hughes Sr. dropped out of Harvard and the University of Iowa College of Law. Instead, Hughes became an entrepreneur with many failed endeavors before he stuck on a winning…
The time has come for an overhaul of our mapping services to clear the way for further development of handy tools for our users. As such, this month we have rolled out a new map format to better allow our users to quickly peruse oil & gas leases by disposition. In order to keep the…
The Olinda Oil Museum & Trail spans 12 acres and preserves the first (and still) operating Olinda oil well, a records vault, a yard of old equipment, and the operation’s field house, which now houses a small museum open on Sunday’s and Wednesdays. The museum is located in present day Brea, a city named from the spanish word…
In the heart of Los Angeles is one of the most popular and notable deposits of oil that bubbles to the surface as the La Brea Tar Pits. Like the city of the same name, Brea refers to the spanish word for natural asphalt or tar. The Land The land was part of a Mexican…
The California Oil Company Museum is an educational and historic site located in the Union Oil Building in Santa Paula, California. Displays span subjects from oil history, its uses, the development of oil drilling technology, and the companies that distributed it. The museum is open to the public with a suggested $4 donation per person….
