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The answer is USA, b the first oil well was struck in Burkesville, KY in the USA in March 1829 by Martin Beaty. Beaty struck oil while drilling for brine.
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The first commercial oil well was struck in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859. Edwin Drake drilled this well, which marked the beginning of the modern petroleum industry. The success of Drake's well initiated a significant oil boom and paved the way for widespread oil exploration and production.
Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in the U.S.A. in 1859 near Titusville, P.A. He actually struck oil on Saturday 27th October of that year.
He dug the first well in Titusville Pennsylvania and struck oil!
Ancient people used petroleum seeps from pre-historic times. Oil was first discovered in the United States in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek Valley when Colonel Edwin L. Drake struck oil there on August 27, 1859.
Struck Oil - film - was created on 1919-10-20.
Anthony Lucas struck oil on Spindletop in 1901. This incredible discovery was considered the birth of the modern oil industry.
When Snakeville Struck Oil - 1915 was released on: USA: 21 October 1915
Patillo Higgins drilled near Beaumont TX in 1893 for oil, the site of Spindletop in 1901, but ened up with a dry hole. Oil was struck at Corsicana, in 1894, but it was a water well that struck oil. There maybe earlier unrelated drilling.
The first oil well was drilled by Edwin Drake in Titusville, Pennsylvania. At a depth of only 69 feet (21 meters), Drake struck oil, and his well began to produce about thirty barrels of oil a day. In the years that followed, hundreds of wells were drilled in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana.