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Many regard the 27th of August, 1859 as the day that the Oil Age began. It was on that day that Edwin Drake used a drilling technique previously used for mining salt to reach down to an oil fi eld 21 m below the surface of a little island in the middle of a river named Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania (see Fig. 14.1 ).
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Aleklett, K. (2012). The Art of Discovering an Oilfield. In: Peeking at Peak Oil. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3424-5_5
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