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In the late 1850s Seneca Oil Company (formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company) sent Col. Edwin L. Drake, to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville near what is now Oil Creek State Park. Drake hired a salt well driller, William A. Smith, in the summer of 1859.
Experience. 1  author of The Oracle of OilW. W. Norton (my publisher) I'm writing the first biography of geologist M. King Hubbert, often called the father of peak oil for his predictions of when oil productionâin the U.S. and globallyâwould reach a peak.