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Pennsylvania production

Pennsylvania: Where U.S. Oil Was Born

The U.S. oil industry was born in Pennsylvania. On August 27, 1859, Edwin Drake drilled the first successful commercial oil well in Titusville, a small town in the northwestern part of the state. That…

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