"The Little Drilling Rig That Could"
- Mike
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
This is a wonderful story I've known about for many years and never got around to writing about it. There are numerous books written about Sarah Rector and last November a movie was released about her life in Oklahoma in the early 1900's. The movie, I understand, is terrific and worth watching on Netflix.
Sometimes I would want to take a story like this and write about it myself, but I can't do it any better than what has already been written.
The months American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Bulletin has a terrific piece in it, and I have simply copied that for you to read.
It's worth it.
Thanks very much to the AAPG, who will often take a break from worldwide geological news and studies to write about the oil and gas industry's unique history and how it has touched so many peoples lives the past 180 years.
The AAPG relieve heavily on an old acquaintance of mine, Jeff Spencer, one of the leading historians in our industry. I've written about the history of Drumwright/Cushing Field W.S.W of Tulsa several times and it is amazing. Drumwright/Cushing was the discovery of the great wildcatter, Thomas Slick.
