First Oil Well

First Oil Well may refer to:

• Bibiheybət (Bibi-Heybat), near Baku, Azerbaijan, is the site of the first ever mechanically drilled oil well (1846) Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan

• Village Bóbrka, near Krosno, Poland, is the site of one of the first oil wells (1854). Polish inventor Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz designed the machines improving Gesner’s method to more easily distil kerosene and petroleum in 1852, opening the first ‘rock oil’ mine in Bóbrka, Poland in 1854.

• The first oil well drilled was in the town of La Brea, Trinidad in 1857. It was drilled to a depth of 280ft by the American Merrimac Company.[1]

• Oil Springs, Ontario, the world's first commercial oil well (1858).

• Drake Well Museum, site of the American first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania (1859).

• First Oil Well, Bahrain, the first oil well in the Persian Gulf (1932).

• Mosoare [Wikidata], near Târgu Ocna, Romania, the site of the first mechanically drilled oil well in Romania [Wikidata] (1861 or 1963).

• Dammam No. 7, the first commercial oil well in Saudi Arabia (1938).