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  2. Oil in Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    The deepest natural gas well is 24,928 feet (7,598 m), in Beckham County, and the deepest producing oil well is 15,500 feet (4,700 m), in Comanche County. [5] Oil drillers active in Oklahoma include Fred M. Manning. [6] The first female oil operator in Oklahoma, and the first woman to drill a producing oil well on her own property, was Lulu M ...

  3. List of companies based in Oklahoma City - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of companies based in Oklahoma City, ... Orange Leaf; Oscium; ... Anderson-Prichard Oil Corporation;

  4. Kerr-McGee - Wikipedia

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    The company later known as Kerr-McGee was founded in 1929 as Anderson & Kerr Drilling Company by Oklahoma businessman-politician Robert S. Kerr (1896-1963) and oil driller James L. Anderson. When Dean A. McGee (1904-1989), a former chief geologist for Phillips Petroleum , joined the firm in 1946, it changed its name to Kerr-McGee Oil Industries ...

  5. Oil industry in Cushing, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    Cushing is the delivery point for West Texas Intermediate, a blend of US light sweet crude oil streams [1] traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange [19]. Cushing's strategic position as a major hub in oil supply led to WTI's development as a significant physical market price reference or benchmark for over three decades.

  6. Continental Resources - Wikipedia

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    In 1967, Harold Hamm founded Shelly Dean Oil Co., Continental's predecessor. [4]In 1990, the company was renamed Continental Resources. [5]In 1995, the company discovered what was later described as the Cedar Hills Field in North Dakota, the 7th largest onshore field in the lower 48 United States ranked by liquid proved reserves, and was the first to develop it exclusively through precision ...

  7. SandRidge Energy - Wikipedia

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    It is organized in Delaware and headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. As of December 31, 2021, the company had 71.3 million barrels of oil equivalent (436,000,000 GJ) of oil equivalent net proved reserves, of which 11% was petroleum , 34% was natural gas liquids , and 55% was natural gas .

  8. Devon Energy - Wikipedia

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    Devon was founded in 1971 by John Nichols (1914-2008) and his son, J. Larry Nichols. [4] In 1988, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [4]In October 2012, the company completed construction of its current headquarters, the 50-story Devon Energy Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and closed its office in the Allen Center in Downtown Houston.

  9. Skelly Oil - Wikipedia

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    Skelly Oil Company was a medium-sized oil company founded in 1919 by William Grove (Bill) Skelly, Chesley Coleman Herndon and Frederick A. Pielsticker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] J. Paul Getty acquired control of the company during the 1930s.