Salt Creek Oil Field
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salt-creek-oil-field-288-14368377
title:
Salt Creek Oil Field
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The Salt Creek Oil Field is located in Natrona County, Wyoming. By 1970, more oil had been produced by this field than any other in the Rocky Mountains region and accounted for 20 percent of the total production in Wyoming. Petroleum seeps in the area were known before 1880, but oil strikes near Lander led to claims by Schoonmaker and Cy Iba. In 1889 the first well to strike oil was drilled in the Shannon pool by Philip M. Shannon, president of the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Company, who in 1895 bui
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Creek_Oil_Field
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2023-09-21T11:04:14Z
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13
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