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In 1922 the well was completed as a gas well, but there was little demand for natural gas in the area and it was years before another gas well was drilled in the field. [ 3 ] In 1927, gas was discovered at the Independent Oil and Gas Company's Crawford No. 1, [ 4 ] [ 2 ] about 2,600 feet (790 meters) below the surface southwest of Hugoton ...
Wood River Oil and Refining Company was renamed Koch Industries in 1968 in honor of Fred Koch, the year after his death. [27] [28] At that time, it was primarily an engineering firm with a 35% interest in Great Northern Oil Company, which owned the Pine Bend Refinery in Minnesota, a crude oil-gathering system in Oklahoma, [16] and some cattle ...
The KGS provides a variety of information related to oil and gas production through the KGS website, the Data Resources Library and Drill Core Library in Lawrence, and the Wichita Well Sample Library, which collects, archives, and loans cuttings samples from more than 130,000 wells drilled in Kansas. Data on Kansas oil and gas production are ...
This is a list of natural gas companies in the United States. ... City of Long Beach Gas & Oil Department; ... Gas South; Hawaii. Hawai'i Gas; Kansas. Aquila, Inc.
A Kansas refinery has agreed to pay more than $23 million for violating the federal Clean Air Act and breaching a 2012 settlement for earlier pollution problems, the U.S. Justice Department and ...
Kabe Exploration Inc. Announces Fortune as Operator of Kansas Mississippian Lime Acreage for Oil Development SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kabe Exploration Inc. (OTCBB: KABX) today announced that ...
The first commercially successful oil well drilled in the area was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892. [1] The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 at Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1897, Spindletop at Beaumont, Texas in 1901, and Oklahoma's Ida Glenn No. 1 at the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the ...
The refinery was built in 1906 by the National Refining Company, which was then the second largest oil company in the United States.Built on 75 acres (30 ha), the refinery processed 2,500 barrels per day (400 m 3 /d) of crude oil, compared to today's 108,000-barrel-per-day (17,200 m 3 /d) processing capacity.