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Doheny drills the 1st oil well in Los Angeles

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The oil tycoon, Doheny, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field. His success set off a petroleum boom in Southern California, and made him a fortune when, in 1902, he sold his properties. His holdings developed as the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, one of the largest oil companies in the world in the 1920s.

Conducted, 1892
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In 1930, Edward Doheny stood at the site of his 1892 oil discovery near Second Street and Glendale Boulevard

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When Edward L. Doheny discovered oil under a private residence in 1892, he set off an oil-drilling spree that made Los Angeles one of the world’s major petroleum fields

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Doherty drilled eighty-one additional wells in Los Angeles that produced 350,000 barrels.

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