HISTORY OF OFFSHORE DRILLING (Offshore Drilling)

In In 1891 the first oil drilling platform built on fresh water in the lake waters of St Marys in the state of Ohio, the United States. Then around 1896, the first oil well in the waters of the salt water was built as part of the extension of Summerland oil field across the bottom of the canal of Santa Barbara in California, USA. Wells drilled from the pier that extends from Summerland to the canal.