Thank you for taking the oil drilling quiz on The Driller. Be sure to check out our newest quiz next month. Here are the answers!

1. What is the name of the large production oil well that started the United States oil boom?

Answer: b. Spindle Top
 

2. What was the name of the company that owned that well?

Answer: a. Gladys City Oil Company

3. What mixing method was used to mix the first clay-based drilling fluid?

Answer: c. Bovine Mixing Method

4. The term “moonlighting” originated in the oil field. What did moonlighting mean?

Answer: b. Fracking an oil well at night to avoid paying the royalty fee

5. Who created the first portable drilling rig?

Answer: d. George E. Failing

6. The term “roughneck” means a person who moves from place to place and performs general labor. Where did the term roughneck originate?

Answer: c. 19th Century circus and carnivals

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