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29 de abr. de 2024 · Despite its many oilfield service manufacturers, the Yellow Dog’s origins remain in the dark. Some historical sources claim the derrick lamp’s design originated with the whaling industry, but neither the Nantucket nor New Bedford whaling museums have found any such evidence.
1 de feb. de 2009 · When Forest Dale Dorn and Clayton Glenville Dorn founded Forest Oil in northern Pennsylvania in 1916 they adopted an image of the yellow dog derrick lantern as its corporate logo. The company’s roots can be traced to the nation’s first giant oil field in Bradford, discovered in 1871.
In the summer of 1921, the Signal Hill oil discovery would help make California the source of one-quarter of the world’s entire oil output. Soon known as “Porcupine Hill,” the town’s Long Beach oilfield produced about 260,000 barrels of oil a day by 1923.
3 de mar. de 2024 · Tales of the “Great Tar Spring” would lead to Wyoming’s earliest hand-dug oil wells during the Civil War. “The first recorded oil sale in Wyoming occurred along the Oregon Trail when, in 1863, enterprising entrepreneurs sold oil as a lubricant to wagon-train travelers” explains Wyohistory.org.
Anyway, yellow dogs were used by the operators of the pumping engines, in the oil fields of Western PA. They burned the crude oil that they pumped from the oil wells and they burned with a lot of smoke and an eerie yellow glow.
3 de sept. de 2016 · Today, along with their shadowy origins, yellow dogs are relegated to museums, antique shops and collectors. Forest Oil Corporation is credited with developing a secondary recovery of oil technique (water-flooding) in the early 1900s – a revolutionary event for the petroleum industry at that time.
Giant Mid-Continent oilfield revealed in 1915 by emerging science of petroleum geology. Community leaders in El Dorado, Kansas, were desperate for their town to live up to its name, especially after big natural gas discoveries at nearby Augusta and at Paola, south of Kansas City.
