Known for its natural gas production, hoodles of it, Qatar has a really nice oilfield in it in four separate reservoirs of the Upper Jurassic, including the Arab C & D zones, the same juicy stuff that produces across the pond in the KSA at Ghawar. Dukhan Field was discovered on the Dukhan Anticline in 1938 by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co, (BP) and the Qatar Petroleum Company (QPC) jointly and the No. 1 well potentiated for 5,000 BOPD. As development occurred the field kept getting bigger and...

Let's again leave behind all the hoopla about tight oil and shale gas for a few minutes, please, and visit a very important gas discovery that occurred in Pecos County in West Texas in 1963, just north of the town of Fort Stockton. It is a milestone in Texas oil and gas industry history and one I hope you will find interesting. As a Texan, I am proud to write it. "There is no oil west of the Pecos River; I will drink all the oil ever found over there." Unknown Oilman, Midland; 1921. A bad...

The first commercial oil well in the world was drilled in Baku in 1847. Then came wells in Romania in 1857 and eventually Edwin Drake's well in Pennsylvania in 1859 Almost every country on the planet lay's claim to having drilled the first oil 'well' in the world, some, like China, as far back as the 5th century. Most of those wells however, appear to have been open pits, or mine shafts dug to very shallow depths near natural occuring bitumen seeps. The first actual wells drilled, mostly by...