( Orton, 1891) Having inspected the site of the Old American Well in the previous year, Dr. Any oil or feeble gas spring was regarded as an infallible guide to a new Oil Creek (Pennsylvania). River (less than 100 feet), on Crocus Creek (less than 200 feet). During the summer and autumn of 1865, shallow gushers came in on Bear Creek (less than 50 feet), on the Cumberland Oil, and natural gas springs and wells returned to the area to seek their fortune. Those Union soldiers who were familiar with Drake's success and who had noted Kentucky's salt, 1865, Kentucky: The end of the Civil War marked a the start of a drilling boom in Kentucky.With some difficulty the well was closed, so as to prevent the further escape of the gas. Source of danger to the distillery near which the well was situated. 1864, Kentucky: Between 18, a boring made on the banks of the Ohio, just below Covington, gave a supply of gas that lasted forty years.Initially wasted to the air, the gas was eventually used in the manufacture of the salt. Additional wells were drilled at what became the The Alonzo Moreman well was drilled to a depth of 527 feet where a "crevice" was struck yielding a strong flow of gas and salt water. ( Hamilton-Smith, 1993) The first wells were drilled at the site of an oil spring in a tributary valley of Doe Run Creek known as 1863, Kentucky: Between 18, the first Devonian shale gas wells in Kentucky were completed in Meade County near Brandenburg, western Kentucky.1862: At a depth of about 158 feet, Hugh Nixon Shaw's well blew in on January 16 and produced an estimated 2,000 barrels per day sparking a drilling boom at Petrolia and Oil Springs,.Which was sold to Confederate agents, barged to Nashville, and supplied to the troops of the Army of the Tennessee. They successfully cased off the surface water and began producing salt Surface waters, they made wooden groove and socket pipe (the Civil War blocked transportation of appropriate sized iron pipe). To prevent the dilution of the natural brine by fresh 1862, Kentucky: John Nicholson and Herman Veeder took over the property on which the Old American Well was located to make salt.The Gabbard well was located across the Cumberland River from Creelsboro. Described as a flowing well, no initial production is available. 1861, Kentucky: The Matilda Gabbard Well in Clinton County was drilled to 225 feet and was credited with the discovery of Ordovician Granville production in the area of the Creelsboro, Desda, and Decide Pools, Clinton and Russell County.By the fall of 1861, there were 400 wells in the field. Williams raised between 200,000 and 400,000 gallons of oil from the Petrolia field, Ontario. It produced oilįrom the Cow Run sand at 303 feet. 1860: First well drilled solely for oil in West Virginia, located on Burning Springs Run on the Little Kanawha, was dug using a spring pole rig and completed.1 on Oil Fork, Bear Creek, was brought in 1860 at a depth of 20 feet with an estimated įlush production of 500 barrels. 1860, Kentucky: Discovery of Bear Creek oil field, Cumberland County.Oil and Gas History of Kentucky: 1860 to 1900 Oil and Gas History of Kentucky: 1860 to 1900
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