SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – His name was Odessa St. Strickland, and in the early 1900s he invented a device that traced and defined the boundaries of oil and gas deposits. In 1940 alone, 139/140 of ...

Mike Daley, West Virginia Division of Highways District 3 Manager, with Paul Hoblitzell, Museums of the Mid-Ohio Valley board president, with the engine being donated to the state museum. (Photo ...

AUSTIN, Texas — At the dawn of the 20th century, there was a settlement near Beaumont in southeast Texas known as Gladys City – a collection of small businesses and primitive shacks where a handful of ...

Dating back 83 years to 1940, the 2023 Permian Basin International Oil Show will haul a double truckload of history into the Ector County Coliseum Oct. 17-19. “We dug into our archives earlier this ...

A decade ago, Hermosa Beach voters overwhelmingly rejected E&B Natural Resources’ efforts to drill oil in the small coastal community. Measure O failed in March 2015 with 80% of the vote, nixing the ...

AMES, Iowa – Saudi Arabia is known as one of the top oil producing countries in the world. However, it may have never earned that reputation if not for a quest to find fresh drinking water in the late ...