Gas Well, Butler Co., Pa.
Photograph
Gas Well, Butler Co., Pa.
From "Views of the Penna. Oil Region"
ca. 1875
Albumen silver print
9.7 x 7.5 cm. (each) on 10.0 x 17.7 cm. mount
Purchase, ex-collection Fred S. Lightfoot
1981.8296.0002
Inscriptions mount verso-(printed) "Views of the Penna Oil Region." "Published by
Frank Robbins, Oil City, Pa." "No. 88, Gas Well, Butler Co., Pa."
"In a new tract of oil territory the first wells strck generally flow;
but as other wells penetrate the oil bearing rock, the pressure of gas
is soon relieved and pumping is then resorted to. On penetrating a
vein of gas, the upward flow is so strong as to prevent drilling; the
drilling tools (which is a sheet-iron tube 6 feet long provided with
piston and valves to remove the debris from the well) is ..."
Frank Robbins, Oil City, Pa." "No. 88, Gas Well, Butler Co., Pa."
"In a new tract of oil territory the first wells strck generally flow;
but as other wells penetrate the oil bearing rock, the pressure of gas
is soon relieved and pumping is then resorted to. On penetrating a
vein of gas, the upward flow is so strong as to prevent drilling; the
drilling tools (which is a sheet-iron tube 6 feet long provided with
piston and valves to remove the debris from the well) is ..."
