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The First Oil Well in Western Canada, also known as Lineham Discovery Well No. 1, is a defunct oil well and national historic site of Canada.Which commemorates the September 21, 1902 oil strike [1] in what is now Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta.
It became the first commercial oil well in North America, remembered as the Williams No. 1 well at Oil Springs, Ontario. [5] The Sarnia Observer and Lambton Advertiser , quoting from the Woodstock Sentinel , published on page two on August 5, 1858: [ 6 ] It was 12 years after drilling the first oil well in Baku settlement (Bibi-Heybat) in 1846 ...
The first oil well in Canada was dug by hand (rather than drilled) in 1858 by James Miller Williams near his asphalt plant at Oil Springs, Ontario. At a depth of 4.26 metres (14.0 ft) [6] he struck oil, one year before "Colonel" Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in the United States. [7]
Panarctic's ice island wells were not the first offshore wells in the Canadian north. In 1971, Aquitaine (later known as Canterra Energy, then taken over by Husky Oil) drilled a well in Hudson Bay from a barge-mounted rig. Although south of the Arctic Circle, that well was in a hostile frontier environment. A storm forced suspension of the well ...
George Mercer Dawson files the first government report of the oil sands when surveying for the International Boundary Commission. [3] 1902 The Rocky Mountain Development Company drills the first oil producing well, Lineham Discovery Well No. 1, in Western Canada at Cameron Creek. [3] [4] September 1, 1905
Samuel Kier established America's first oil refinery in Pittsburgh on Seventh avenue near Grant Street, in 1853. In addition to the activity in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, an important early oil well in North America was in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858, dug by James Miller Williams. [35]
James Miller Williams (September 14, 1818 – November 25, 1890) was a Canadian-American businessman and politician. Williams is best known for establishing the first commercially successful oil well in 1858 and igniting the first oil boom in North America. [1]
The well site, Lineham Discovery Well No. 1 would be renamed First Oil Well in Western Canada and designated a National Historic Site of Canada on 17 May 1965. [7] John Lineham died in Calgary on 21 April 1913 from Bright's disease. [8]