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THE modern petroleum industry in the United States of America dates from the drilling of the first commercial oil well in 1859. Up to the present, about a million wells have been drilled for oil and gas, and the total production of petroleum has been 22,452,498,000 barrels, which has been contributed by twenty-three of the forty-eight States.
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MISER, H. Oilfields of the United States*. Nature 146, 437 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146437a0
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