Catlettsburg Refining LLC history

1903: Ford Motor Company founded June 16, with $28,000 in cash.

By 1905, after the discovery of the Spindletop field in Texas, the price of oil was so depressed that the line was taken up.The Milt Morehead well was drilled in the vicinity of Oil Springs, south east Clark County on the Lawrence farm by the Oil Springs Oil Development Co.

8 coal." The structure has not been defined. (Kentucky's first coalbed methane field?)1907, Kentucky: New Domain Oil & Gas Co #1 Williams Heirs, first reported oil production from the Ordovician Knox, shot 1362-1392, no gauge after treatment reported.

The overload of water is too great for the gas to lift with facility, and the gas practically stops flowing.1912, KentuckyHartford, Ohio County, first commercial oil from western Kentucky.

89-90)1918, KentuckyDiscovery of Big Sinking, Kentucky's only giant oil field with production of more than 100 million barrels was established with the drilling of the Eastern Gulf Oil no.

In 1921, the Day Oil Company acquired the Williams lease and resumed drilling of Bell Oil's original well.

1924, Kentucky: Having encountered some financial difficulties, Swiss Oil was reorganized on January 26, 1924 under the name Ashland Refining Company to be run by Paul Blazer.

1 Chester Veatch, about 3 miles west of Pellville, in the Barlow Sand, June 1, 1926.

Creek Maxey and in 1927 it opened an office here [Owensboro] and was sold to Mr.

A second Senate investigation in 1928 uncovered evidence of Sinclair's payments to Fall and of corporate malpractices that provided him with a "slush" fund for such dealings.

C36) "The first efforts to increase limestone production occurred in 1929.

1932, Kentucky: Refinery construction begins at Somerset.

Frank Yount died of a heart attack in 1933. (www.spindletop.org)

1946, Kentucky: South Kentucky Purchasing Co, operator of the refinery at Somerset, is incorporated

Preston Oil begins waterflood on the J.D. Smyth lease in Big Sinking (Jones, 1952)

1957, Kentucky: First apparent coalbed methane wells drilled by E.M. Howard on the Nolan Heirs track in Harlan County (Bledsoe Quadrangle). Two domestic gas wells were completed in coals with reported IOF of 80 MCF and 75 MCF.

Bushong (1970) A well that produced oil was drilled in Hancock County near Pellville on the T.H Brown farm.

KGS-USGS cooperative mapping project initiated to map surface geology of Kentucky at 1:24,000 (W. Hagen, 10th Survey). Program completed in 1978, the first state to do so.

1980, Kentucky : Ordovician Knox oil boom, Clinton and Cumberland Counties.

9372 Ferguson Brothers well, this well started the drilling boom in fractured Ordovician carbonate reservoirs that peaked in 1992 with about 488,000 barrels produced in Clinton and Cumberland Counties.

House Bill 577 to create KRS Chapter 349 was signed into law by Governor Ernie Fletcher, April 7, 2004.

2006, Kentucky : Equitable Resources (EQT, Pittsburgh, Pa) begins program of horizontal drilling for development of their eastern Kentucky properties for Devonian Ohio Shale (Cleveland and Lower Huron) gas and Mississippian Berea oil.

2009, Kentucky : Kentucky Geological Survey reaches a TD of 8,126 feet at the #1 Marvin Blan well in Hancock County, an HB-1 project.