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The Diamond Drill
Experimental Oil Well
Inventor and History
Descriptions and Improvements
Uses
Landmark Dates
Bibliography

Landmark Dates

These are some of the landmark dates for application and advancements in the use of diamond-bit drilling:

3000 BC – 1920's

3000 BC+

Egypt

6"-20'

quarrying

1863

Mt. Cenis tunnel, France (Leschot drills)

--

blast holes

1865

NW Pennsylvania oil region

10'

oil, experimental

1869

Vermont

--

marble

1869

Michigan

130'

iron

1871

Pottsville, Pa.

750'

coal

1871

Springville, Nova Scotia

--

coal

1872

Silver Islet Mine, Port Arthur, Ontario

--

prospecting - mining

1872

Pottsville, Pa.

250-300'

coal

1872-3+

Hell Gate, New York Harbor

--

reef removal

1876

Double hydraulic diamond-drill machine shown in Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

--

exhibit

1878+

Lake Superior Iron Ranges

--

iron

1909

Upper Silesia, Germany, deep well

7347'

 

1916

Used in U.S. oilfields on a commercial scale

--

oil

1920's

Cores in Bradford field - water flood

--

oil

1920-28

Panuco District, Tampico Basin, Mexico

2153'

oil

1921

General use of coring equipment, U.S. and abroad

--

oil

1929

Venezuela, Mene Grande field, Maracaibo Sullivan P-2 5000' rotary but was used as rotary only

3400'

oil

 

 
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