OilField Journal Index
The OilField Journal is an annual peer-reviewed journal publishing original manuscripts related to the mission of Drake Well Museum in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
The Friends of Drake Well have been publishing the Journal since 2002, and members of the Friends of Drake Well receive the current issue of the journal as an annual member benefit.
Many past volumes of the OilField Journal are available for purchase through the Drake Well Museum Store. An index of each volume's articles and authors can be found here.
| Volume | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2020, V. 17 | Titusville Eats: Recipes from Oil Boom Titusville | Moore, William B |
| A Million Ways to Die in the Oil Region | Hilburn, Jessica and Juliet Hilburn | |
| The Acquisitions Corner | Beates, Susan J. | |
| 2019, V. 16 | Partnership in Oil Turned Brothers Into Enemies: The Tale of the Brambley Brothers – In Their Own Words | Jackson, Kenneth L. |
| Surviving in Postwar America: the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association, 1945-1960 Part IV, PGCOA History | Bemko, Ihor J. | |
| Carolee and Bud: Living History | Andomites, Paul | |
| For Sale Cheap: Depictions of Disappointment | Deeter, Lee | |
| John B. Hawley, Jr., and His Northern Ordnance Enterprises: Wartime Pennsylvania Oil Production (Flowing Heads, Bull Run Oil Shaft and Yo-Yo Drilling Rigs) | Weber, David L. | |
| Peapack and Petroleum: a Brief History of the Hyde and Egbert Farm, the Jersey Well and the Jerseymen Who Drilled It | Flaherty, Kathy J. | |
| Past, Present and Beyond | Beates, Susan J. | |
| 2018, V. 15 | Titusville High Society: The Women | Moore, William B. |
| Meanwhile at Petroleum Centre! | Article excerpt from The Derrick | |
| Separation Anxiety: Oil Free and Clear of Water (and Vice Versa) | Flaherty, Kathy | |
| Post-Oil, Titusville Begins to Redefine Itself and Lay the Plans for a Diversified Future | Weber, David L. | |
| The Most Important Document in the Global History of Oil | Adomites, Paul | |
| New Acquisitions by Drake Well Museum | Beates, Susan J. | |
| 2017, V. 14 | Interview: Timothy C. Winegard | |
| Review: Winegard’s “The First World Oil War” | Manuel, Tyler | |
| Pennsylvania’s Oil Region and the Great War | Bemko, Ihor | |
| Oil & War: United Refining Company | Beates, Susan J. | |
| Pennsylvania’s Oil Region Machine Shops and Foundries Helped Win “The Great War” | Weber, David L. | |
| How the Pennsylvania Invention of Casinghead Gasoline Helped the Allies Win the War | Adomites, Paul | |
| Drake Well’s Recent Acquisitions | Beates, Susan J. | |
| 2016, V. 13 | Charles Vernon Culver: Financial Visionary or All-Time Conman | Michener, Carolee |
| Pennsylvania Natural Gas Finder: Wayne Leeper | Flaherty, Kathy | |
| Major General Charles Miller: Industrialist & Gentleman Farmer | Weber, David L. | |
| “A War of Oil”: Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and American Art During World War II | McNamara, Jane Myers | |
| A Sketch of Venango City 1865 and Beyond | Young, Clara Youthers | |
| From the Oil Fields to Drake Well Museum and Park: Sand Hill Oil Company Central Power Exhibit | Weber, David L. | |
| The Association has been the Salvation for this Entire Region: The Penn Grade Crude Oil Association in the New Deal and World War II | Bemko, Ihor | |
| Drake Well’s Recent Acquisitions | Beates, Susan J. | |
| 2015, V. 12 | The Corry Refinery | McElwee, Neil and Lois |
| The Coopers were Convicts: The Allegheny County Workhouse and the Pennsylvania Oil Industry | MacGregor, Doug | |
| The Sacred Among the Profane: Pithole’s Men of Faith | Adomites, Paul | |
| Unseen Pithole | ||
| The Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Asociation Copes with the Problems of the Free Market: Overproduction and Deflation | Bemko, Ihor | |
| The Best Books on Oil History | Black, Marilyn A. W. | |
| How Perseverance and Dedication by the DAR Assured the World of a Drake Well Monument | Kalkbrenner, Jeffery and Jessica Hilburn | |
| The OFJ Interview: Jack Straub: Pennsylvania Oil Man | Flaherty, Kathy J. and Thomas | |
| From One Oil Anniversary to the Next: The Development of Drake Well Museum and Park | Beates, Susan J. | |
| New Acquisitions to Drake Well Museum | Beates, Susan J. | |
| 2012-2014, V. 11 | John J. Carter, Civil War Hero | English, Gerald C. and Susan J. Beates |
| Pennsylvania Oil Fights Back: The Founding of the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association | Bemko, Ihor | |
| How to Read Oil Maps: A Leaf from the Oil City Quadrangle | Sorkhabi, Rasoul | |
| Drake Well’s Civil War Artifacts | Beates, Susan J. | |
| Forgotten Image of 1897 Titusville Uncovered | Weber, David | |
| Pithole: First Person | Adomites, Paul | |
| Dr. Francis Brewer: An Historical Look | Butler, Claire Varrieur, edited by Susan J. Beates | |
| Augie Holtz: The OFJ Interview | Weber, David | |
| A Trek Through The Derrick’s Handbook | Adomites, Paul | |
| My Choice: The Best Books on Oil History | Sorenson, Ray | |
| The Latest Acquisitions of the Drake Well Museum | Beates, Susan J. | |
| 2011-2012, V. 10 | Introduction | Mattausch, Daniel W. |
| An Ancestry of Light | Arnn, Molly | |
| Boyl and 646 | Adomites, Paul | |
| The Boyle Collection at Drake Well Museum | ||
| 2008-2009, V. 8 | 1859: A Year that Changed the World | Carter, Kristin M. |
| Colonel Drake was her Neighbor | Giddens, Paul H. | |
| DW 652: A Forensic Look at an Iconic Image | Mura, Glen A. | |
| Edwin L. Drake and His Legacy | Brice, William R. | |
| Editor’s Desk | ||
| Picturing the Past: A Drake Family Album | ||
| Review: Preserving the Oil Regions | ||
| In Print: Books, Music and Film | ||
| Drill Bits: Living History | ||
| Oil Spots: Energy, Experience and Edutainment: A Museum for the 21st Century | ||
| New Museum Acquisitions | ||
| 2007-2008, V. 7 | Oil Region Wagon and Carriage Manufacturers, an Essential Operation | Weber, David L. |
| The Allegheny: River of Oil | Beates, Susan J. | |
| The Oil Creek Railroad: Pictures Tell the Story | Senges, Richard A. | |
| The United Pipe Lines, inc. – Pulling the Early Industry Together | McElwee, Neil | |
| Review | ||
| In Print | ||
| Drill Bits | ||
| Oil Spots | ||
| From the Oil Patch | ||
| New Museum Acquisitions | ||
| 2006-2007, V. 5 | Derricks and Sabers | Giddens, Paul H. |
| War and Wells | Crum, A. R. | |
| Colonel Andrew Jackson Greenfield: Citizen, Soldier, and Oil Broker | Carter, Kristin M. | |
| Josiah G. Winger: “Oldest Living Driller” | Beates, Susan J. and Steve Karns | |
| Brothers in Oil: John Luke McKinney and James Curtis McKinney | English, Gerald and Beth English | |
| Can You Imagine | Pearl Mary Wilshaw | |
| Review | ||
| Drill Bits: Bubble, Bubble, Oil and …fizzle? | ||
| In Print | ||
| Oil Online | ||
| Oil Spots | ||
| New Museum Acquisitions | ||
| 2004-2005, V. 4 | Excerpt from Rock Oil: Wonder of the 19th Century | Gale, Thomas |
| The High Price of Whale Oil and What it Led To | Kendall Beaton | |
| Boughton Acid Works | Edenborn, Harry and James Sams | |
| Kerosene: A Bright Idea | Flaherty, Kathy J. and Susan L. Beates | |
| New Museum Acquisitions | ||
| In Print | ||
| Oil Spots | ||
| Drill Bits: Rust in Peace | ||
| Review | ||
| 2003-2004, V. 3 | Letter to the Editor | Flaherty, Tom |
| US Postal Service Honors Special Stamp | ||
| Drill Bits | Flaherty, Kathy | |
| Ida at Allegheny | Helmreich, Jonathan E. | |
| French Lessons: Ida Tarbell Begins Work in Paris | Kochersberger, Robert Jr. | |
| Why Ida Tarbell Wrote: The History of Standard Oil Company | Giddens, Paul H. | |
| Centerfold | ||
| Ida Tarbell, Her Research Assistant and The History of the Standard Oil Company | Giddens, Paul H. | |
| Ida Tarbell’s Second Look at Standard Oil | Miller, Ernest H. | |
| Ida M. Tarbell, at 76, is Still Going Strong with her Pen | ||
| A Letter to Nettie | ||
| Ida M. Tarbell, 86, Dies in Bridgeport | ||
| Oil Spots | ||
| In Print | ||
| New Museum Acquisitions | ||
| Review | Mong, M. A. | |
| 2001-2002. V. 2 | The Incredible John F. Carll: The World’s First Petroleum Geologist and Engineer | Harper, John A. |
| Petroleum | Petra | |
| New Haven and the First Oil Well | Townsend, Henry H. | |
| Oil Spots: A Virtual Tour of America’s Oil Museums | Vatavuk, William M. | |
| Oil Spots: On the Road Again | Corey, M. H. | |
| In Print | ||
| New Museum Acquisitions | ||
| Review | Mong, M. A. | |
| 2000-2001. V. 1 | Prehistoric Petroleum Use in Pennsylvania | Thomas, Judith E. |
| Early Maps of the Pennsylvania Oil Fields | Miller, Ernest C. | |
| Oil Spots | ||
| In Print | ||
| New Museum Acquisitions | ||
| Review | Mong, M. A. |