This Week in History

February 10, 1910 – California’s Buena Vista Oilfield

Honolulu Oil Corporation discovered The Buena Vista field in
Kern County, California.

February 10, 1917 – Geologists organize Professional Association

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is
organized as the Southwestern Association of Petroleum Geologists in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. About 90 geologists meet at Henry Kendall College, now Tulsa
University, and form an association “to which only reputable and
recognized petroleum geologists are admitted.”

Source: American Oil & Gas Historical Society, aoghs.org