OilField Journal Index of Articles
The OilField Journal is an annual peer-reviewed journal publishing original manuscripts related to the mission of Drake Well Museum and Park in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
The Friends of Drake Well have been publishing the Journal since 2000-2001, 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 feature articles and authors can be found below.
| Volume | Title | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024. V. 19 | The Original Petroleum Company: Parties of the First Part (reprint) | Flaherty, Kathy J. | |
| Thomas Allen Gale (1814-1900): Author of the First Book About Pennsylvania Oil | Moore, William B. | ||
| Early Studies of Climate Change | Sorenson, Raymond P. | ||
| 2021-2022. V. 18 | Petroleum Centre July 19, 1869: The Murder of David Tate | Moore, William B. | |
| The Town Oil Built: An Essay in Historic Postcards | Hilburn, Jessica | ||
| Plum Dungeon Falls and the Secret Estate: The Untold Story of Oil Creek’s Sanney Farm | McQuiston, James A. | ||
| The Original Petroleum Company: Parties of the First Part | Flaherty, Kathy J. | ||
| 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 Oldest Story Retold: Oil as God's Gift to America | Baake, Ken | ||
| 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, Dr. 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! (reprinted from The Derrick) | |||
| Separation Anxiety: Oil Free and Clear of Water (and Vice Versa) | Flaherty, Kathy J. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2017, V. 14 | Interview with Dr. Timothy C. Winegard | ||
| Review: Winegard’s The First World Oil War | Manuel, Tyler | ||
| Pennsylvania’s Oil Region and the Great War | Bemko, Dr. Ihor J. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2016, V. 13 | Charles Vernon Culver: Financial Visionary or All-Time Conman? | Michener, Carolee | |
| Pennsylvania Natural Gas Finder: Wayne Leeper | Flaherty, Kathy J. | ||
| 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, Dr. Ihor 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 | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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, Dr. Ihor J. | ||
| 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 L. | ||
| 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 L. | ||
| A Trek Through The Derrick’s Handbook | Adomites, Paul | ||
| 2011-2012, V. 10 Special Edition | Introduction to Lighting the Way | Mattausch, Daniel W. | |
| An Ancestry of Light | Arnn, Molly | ||
| Boyle and 646 | Adomites, Paul | ||
| The Boyle Collection at Drake Well Museum | |||
| 2010-2011, V. 9 | Frank Robbins: Early Stereoscopic Art of the Pennsylvania Oilfields | Spencer, Jeff A. | |
| Leaving a Legacy in the Image of an Industry: the Pioneers of the Early Oil Industry in the Photographic Record, 1859 to the Mid 1860s | Jaillet, Angela | ||
| Columbia Farm of the Oil Creek Valley, Oil Creek State Park, Venango County, PA: 150 Years of Petroleum History and Counting | Randolph, Amy | ||
| McClintockville | Beates, Susan J. | ||
| Drill Bits; The Oil Region's Other Photographers | Beates, Susan J. and Kathy J. Flaherty | ||
| Picturing the Past: Mather, the Master | Flaherty, Kathy J. | ||
| 2008-2009, V. 8 | 1859: A Year that Changed the World | Carter, Kristin M. | |
| Colonel Drake was Her Neighbor (reprint) | Giddens, Dr. Paul H. | ||
| DW 652: A Forensic Look at an Iconic Image | Mura, Glen A. | ||
| Edwin L. Drake and His Legacy | Brice, Dr. William R. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2006-2007, V. 6 | Forgotten Boomtowns of the Pennsylvania Oil Regions | Woodward, Clifford W. | |
| The Changing Image of an Industry: Oilfield Postcards of Western Pennsylvania | Scholle, Peter A. | ||
| Transitory Accommodations in a Transitory Landscape: The Hotels of Pithole City, Pennsylvania, and Its Environs | Stephens, David T. and Alexander T. Bobersky | ||
| Oilyoute to Triumph Hill: A Story of the Tidioute Oil Excitement | Beates, Susan J. | ||
| Drill Bits: A Town Grows in Oildom | Flaherty, Kathy J. | ||
| 2005-2006, V. 5 | Derricks and Sabers (reprint) | Giddens, Dr. Paul H. | |
| War and Wells (reprinted from Romance of American Petroleum and Gas, Vol. 1) | Crum, A. R., ed. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2004-2005, V. 4 | Excerpt from Rock Oil: Wonder of the 19th Century | Gale, Thomas A. | |
| The High Price of Whale Oil and What It Led To | Beaton, Kendall | ||
| Boughton Acid Works | Edenborn, Harry and James Sams | ||
| Kerosene: A Bright Idea | Flaherty, Kathy J. and Susan L. Beates | ||
| 2003-2004, V. 3 | Ida at Allegheny | Helmreich, Jonathan E. | |
| French Lessons: Ida Tarbell Begins Work in Paris | Kochersberger, Dr. Robert Jr. | ||
| Why Ida Tarbell Wrote: The History of Standard Oil Company (reprint) | Giddens, Dr. Paul H. | ||
| Ida Tarbell, Her Research Assistant, and The History of the Standard Oil Company (reprint) | Giddens, Dr. Paul H. | ||
| Ida Tarbell’s Second Look at Standard Oil (reprint) | Miller, Ernest H. | ||
| Ida M. Tarbell, at 76, is Still Going Strong with Her Pen (reprint) | |||
| A Letter to Nettie (reprint) | Tarbell, Ida M. | ||
| Ida M. Tarbell, 86, Dies in Bridgeport (reprint) | |||
| 2001-2002, V. 2 Out of Print | 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. | ||
| 2000-2001, V. 1 Out of Print | Prehistoric Petroleum Use in Pennsylvania | Thomas, Judith E. | |
| Early Maps of the Pennsylvania Oil Fields | Miller, Ernest C. |