Show petroleum etro leum ener energy ev revolutionized US col edwin L drake drilled the nations first commercial oil well at it titusville Titus ville villo pa in 1859 but little did he realize that the energy contained in petroleum soon would revolutionize the industrial du progress t of the united states and enrich the lives of all ali uil ill marl mari kind kina nor was lie he conscious of th tho the fact that ho he would go down 14 t history as the progenitor of a 4 new industry drake drak knew comparatively little about the properties of oil his objective was to find an 1 abundant supply of petrol petr oleu euil eurl which bich could be refined into kerosene ke rosine then in great demand as lamp fuel As a source of lubricants and compact power however petroleum was wa put to to work in a thousand ways with wit wil each new invention and improve ment crela ercla creating tinn ting new vistas of progress and happiness deep wells drilled drake s well went down only 69 feet today the world worlds q deepest well is is in excess of i feet and drilling is is still continuing in 1860 the first full ye yar ir of oil history production amounted to barrels in in 1948 U S production ek c two billion barrels in the past no DO years american oil men nien havo have drilled more than 1 1 4 t million wells to keep ute country well supplied with petroleum petroleum otro etro leum products tile the footage involved totals more than 2 billion feet a distance esquival i ent to GO 60 times the diameter of tho tile earth 1 in 1850 1050 petroleum had one principal product ke kerosene rosino rosine today fay here are more than 1200 oil products and arid tile the compounds compo and ways in which petroleum la Is utilized in this modern world increases every year as research engineers uncover new tiei ties for the ef efficient f use of oil |