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Who drilled the first ever oil well?

April 26, 2017drilled Oil

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Who drilled the first ever oil well?

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The Chinese back in 347. They burned oil to evaporate brine which produced salt. The first U.S. oil well was dug in 1859, when Edwin Drake drilled a 69-foot well outside Titusville, PA. It yielded 25 barrels of oil a day, which would have been more than enough to power American cars if there had been any at the time. The first gasoline-powered automobile wasn’t invented until 1870 in Austria.