Betty M. Miller: “Oil and Gas Production and Reserve Histories of the Appalachian Basin, 1859–1972”

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Betty M. Miller: “Oil and Gas Productionand Reserve Histories of the AppalachianBasin, 1859–1972”

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Abstract

The Appalachian basin extends over 100 million surface acres from the Adirondack Mountains in New York southward into northern Alabama. This Paleozoic sedimentary basin was the birthplace of the modern petroleum industry in the United States, and its oil and gas fields have the longest production history of any on the North American Continent. The Appalachian basin’s commercial development dates from the discovery of oil in a stray sand of Late Devonian age in the Drake well in Pennsylvania, August 1859; the first commercial gas production was recorded in 1882.

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