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.
The first oil well drilled in Yemen was in Tihama region - Hodeidah city in 1961.
Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in 1859 near Titusville, P.A.
The first gas well was drilled in Canada in 1883
well it was powerful
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.
Exxon Mobil drilled an oil well in Russia to a depth of 37,016 feet or over seven miles.