Approximately 3 thousand years BC. e. The inhabitants of the Middle East are beginning to use oil as fuel, for the manufacture of weapons, for lamps and building materials (bitumen, asphalt). Oil was collected from the surface of open reservoirs.
AD 347 e. In China, for the first time, wells were drilled in the ground to extract oil. Hollow bamboo trunks were used as pipes.
1264. The Italian traveler Marco Polo, passing through the territory of modern Azerbaijan, reported that local residents collected oil seeping from the ground. Around the same time, the beginning of the oil trade was noted.
About 1500. In Poland, for the first time they began to use oil for street lighting. Oil came from the Carpathian region.
1848. The world’s first modern oil well was drilled on the Absheron Peninsula near Baku.
1849. Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner was the first to obtain kerosene from oil.
1858. Oil began to be produced in North America (Canada, Ontario). 8. 1859 Beginning of oil production in the USA. The first well (21 meters deep) was drilled in Pennsylvania. It allowed to produce 15 barrels of oil per day.
