Every oil well drilled must have its own name. There are wells named after planets and chili peppers as well as ones named Ron Burgundy and Dean Wormer. ... Oil Wells Yield a Gusher of Goofy Names.

JOEL ACHENBACH: Something went right. You know, this has been an incredibly difficult process just for all of us to watch. I mean, this gusher, this black plume of oil, has been a fixture on TV.

Engineers removed a temporary cap Thursday that stopped oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well in mid-July. No more oil was expected to leak into the sea, but crews we ...

NEW OIL WELL A GUSHER.; Pennsylvania Driller Now Getting 25 Barrels an Hour. Share full article. Special to The New York Times. May 31, 1908; Credit... The New York Times Archives.

NEW ORLEANS — Robotic submarines working a mile underwater removed a leaking cap from the gushing Gulf oil well Saturday, starting a painful trade-off: Millions more gallons of crude will flow ...

BP says the first relief well is on target to be completed by early August. A second relief well, ... Relief well is last best hope to contain gusher . Updated: Jul. 05, 2010, 3:10 p.m.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. said it drilled the largest oil gusher in the company’s 23-year history at a “significant” discovery in the Anadarko Basin of Texas and Oklahoma.

A crew poses with the Lakeview Gusher.. The well flowed uncontrolled from March 1910 through September 1911, covering the surrounding landscape in crude oil and destroying the oil derrick used to ...

That’s where they found the world’s biggest oil well.” The gusher produced a million barrels of oil in 90 days. In the 110 years since, operations at Orcutt Hill have produced 180 million ...

Oil was struck here today at the Lapidot Oil Company’s Well Number 5, in the Kochav oil field, at a depth of 5,000 feet. This was the first of Israel’s wells where a gusher of oil resulted ...

In the oil-rich Williston Basin, a Shell Oil Co. wildcat crew last week brought in a well near Baker, Mont. that gushed oil at the rate of 4,253 barrels a day. It was the richest well yet drilled ...