Who was the first discovered oil?

Oil finder Is Max Steineke, a explorer petroliferous American citizen, graduated from Stanford University in the year (1621) majoring in geology and died Stinky Science in 1952, a prominent explorers in America, where he was one of the largest Algilogian known in the "California Standard Oil" of the year (1936) to the year (1950), where the company turned out to be "Aramco" later, contributed to the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia in commercial quantities and that his insistence and his efforts in the area of ​​Dammam "well Dammam No. 7" during the month of March 1938.

 On 29 May 1933 awarded Saudi Arabia concession company "Standard Oil" (Casoc), the Dammam area is the first target for oil exploration where it was drilled a series of test wells in 1935, Stinky arrived in Saudi Arabia year (1934) for the first time his , where he was a great Algilogian works in "Casoc" year 1936, and in 1937 began a trip to explore the knowledge of the nature of the Geloggio Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a group of Algilogian who work with him, and in the year (1936), a well of wells, the test did not succeed in detecting the presence of commercial quantities of the oil in that region, and in December of 1936 Stinky began in deeper test From him, and in 1938 Stinky was summoned to the "San Francisco" where he persuaded them to successfully continued on the same region, and in the first week of March year 1938 Dammam Field 7 started producing commercial quantities of oil at a depth of 1440 meters, where production reached 3,000 barrels by the end of the same month, and in 1940 Dammam field production became 7 up to 12,000 barrels per day.

In 1940 he found "Stinky" and just 50 kilometers from Dammam signs indicate the presence of oil, where this field pumps about 10,000 barrels per day, a Abqaiq field and reserves of about 12 billion barrels of oil, he developed "Stinky" technology new structural drilling for drawing geological maps of the underground, were used this technique widely used in oil exploration operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where Stinky got the Bowers Award (American Society in Geloggio oil) and this award was given to him as he developed detection methods of oil and get huge commercial quantities , as this method of The advanced enabled to find the largest oil field, a "Ghawar field," work "Stinky" in Saudi Arabia during World War II to produce oil for its allies as well as protecting oil wells from enemies, remained as chief Algilogian in the company "Aramco" until 1950 and died in in 1952 at the age of 54 years.

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