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All Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Gathers the historical-figure entities profiled for their role in the oil and petroleum industry, including the wildcatters and engineers who developed drilling and refining technology and the entrepreneurs who built major oil enterprises, such as John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Each entry covers a specific individual rather than an oil field, a refinery or a company, which are filed under their own respective types elsewhere in the atlas.

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1859 1
All Oil & Petroleum Pioneers
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Abdulhadi H. Taher

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Amory Lovins

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Andrew Mellon

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Anthony Lucas

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

C. C. Julian

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Charles Greenway, 1st Baron Greenway

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Charles Pratt

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Christophe de Margerie

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Columbus Marion Joiner

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Dimitris Melissanidis

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Edward L. Doheny

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Edwin Drake

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Emanuel Nobel

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Enrico Mattei

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Ernest Mercier

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Ettore Conti

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Eugene Houdry

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Everette DeGolyer

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Franco Sensi

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

François Perrodo

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Frank Phillips

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Frederick Gardner Cottrell

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Friedrich Bergius

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

George Bernard Reynolds

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

George Bissell

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Glenn McCarthy

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

H. L. Hunt

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Hans Tropsch

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Harry F. Sinclair

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Henry Clay Folger

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Herman Frasch

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Hermann Honnef

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Hugh Roy Cullen

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Immanuel Mulunga

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

J. Paul Getty

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

James M. Guffey

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

James Young (chemist)

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

John D. Archbold

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

John D. Rockefeller

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Joseph S. Cullinan

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Kai Hietarinta

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Leonardo Maugeri

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Ludvig Nobel

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Ludwig Nobel

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Lyman Stewart

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

M. King Hubbert

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Massimo Moratti

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Matt Linning

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Michel T. Halbouty

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Mikael Aramyants

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Mustafa Sanalla

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Nubar Gulbenkian

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Pattillo Higgins

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Pierre Wack

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Robert Nobel

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Robert O. Anderson

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Robert S. Kerr

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Sadad Ibrahim Al Husseini

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Sazō Idemitsu

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Sid Richardson

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Sultan Al Jaber

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Vladimir Shukhov

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Wallace Pratt

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Walter C. Teagle

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

William Fraser, 1st Baron Strathalmond

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

William Larimer Mellon Sr.

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

William Merriam Burton

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

William Walkley

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers
Sources
1. Edwin Drake - Wikipedia
WikipediaDrake Well, 27 August 1859
Quote, Drake Well, 27 August 1859
On August 27, 1859, Drake had persevered and his drill bit had reached a total depth of 69.5 feet (21.2 m).
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