Skin lightening products -- also known as bleaching creams, whiteners, skin brighteners, or fading creams -- work by reducing a pigment called melanin in the skin. Most people who use lighteners do so to treat skin problems such as freckles, age spots, acne scars, or discoloration related to hormones.
The Deepest Oil Well. 555 feet: Total height of spar. 13 days: Time it took to secure spar to seafloor. 10,000: Number of cars it would take to equal Perdido's weight. 9,627 feet: Water depth at deepest well. 184 miles: Total length of pipeline laid on seafloor.
H.L. Williams drilled the first offshore well in 1887 from a wooden wharf that extended 300 feet onto the continental shelf off Summerland, California. Source: EIA. Pennsylvania oil producers operate more than 19,000 wells to produce 3.6 million barrels of Pennsylvania Grade crude oil each year. Source: Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association. The worldâs first commercial oil well was drilled in 1859 in Titusville, Venango County.