This page is dedicated to OFES members or otherwise known as Oafs. Basically, if you like BIG OLD GREASY RUSTY OIL FIELD ENGINES, you're in the right place. Technical and swap forums, links and mailing list.

The Bessemer Gas Engine and Marshall- Barr No. 19 oil well equipment was substantially completed and opened for visitors during the Lake Arthur Regatta in August of 2000.

When we got it is had recently came off of an oil lease near Sullivan, Indiana where it had pumped oil from several oil wells. The previous owner had taken the engine apart to make it easier to transport. After getting the engine home we realized...

A highly abridged history of the petroleum companies that have used the 'Standard' brand name.

Preserving American Petroleum Heritage Through Education.

Welcome to the Tremel family Web page. We are Appalachian oil field historians. Our hobby includes: researching, restoring, and preserving a piece of our oil heritage.

This web page is about California Oil history, it is done as a pictorial because web pages are really great for photographs but not for reading long boring text. If you really like oil history, there are a number of great books that can be checked...

Reid images, a note from Margaret Reid, manual excerpts, Warranty work on a 40 year old Reid, a decked out Reid.

Early Petroleum History Links

Subsea Oil and Gas Companies Directory and Industry Search Engine. Find Manufacturers and Suppliers of Offshore, Drilling, Pipeline and Exploration Equipment, Products and Services.

The Tallini Tales of Destruction Series...Adventures in nitroglycerin well shooting from past to present.

In an age when few people traveled beyond the borders of their own home town, the pioneer oil men of Lambton County went out from the wilderness of Southwestern Ontario to discover most of the major oilfields of the world.