To find oil....
Edwin Drake invented the oil drill and drilled the first oil well in history. By the time he died, Drake had drilled two more wells.
The earliest known oil wells were drilled in China about 1664 years ago in the year 347 AD.
The first successful oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania!
the first time an oil well was drilled in 1853 in Poland
In 1866, Lyne T. Barret drilled Texas' first oil producing well. This well was drilled at Melrose in Nacogdoches County.
Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in 1859 near Titusville, P.A.
The first oil well drilled in Yemen was in Tihama region - Hodeidah city in 1961.
The first gas well was drilled in Canada in 1883
An oil well is usually drilled into underground rock formations, such as sedimentary rock, where oil is trapped. The well is drilled deep into the earth to reach the oil reservoir and then oil is pumped to the surface for extraction.
onshore is oil well drilled on land. offshore is oil well drilled in sea/ocean.
in 1866 they drilled a well in aripero at a depth of 160 feet.
it was called oil well in Texas