First Oil Well may refer to:

  • In 1857, Romania drilled its first commercial oil well in Lucăceşti, a small village in the Bacau county of Romania. The nation was the only country in the world recorded with crude oil production in 1857 and 1858, fuelled by the world's first industrial refinery built in 1856 by the Mehedinţeanu brothers
  • Village Bóbrka, near Krosno, Poland, is the site of the very first oil well (1854). Polish inventor Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz designed the machines.
  • Oil Springs, Ontario, the world's first commercial oil well (1858).
  • Drake Well Museum, site of the American first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania (1859).
  • First Oil Well, Bahrain, the first oil well in the Persian Gulf (1932).
  • Dammam No. 7, the first commercial oil well in Saudi Arabia (1938).
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