C.J. Simpson Drilling Company

The C. J. Simpson Drilling Company was an oil company active in the 1950s in the United States and Cuba. Its activities included buying a 7,150-barrel Olean, New York oil refinery from Socony-Vacuum Oil Company in 1954 and moving it to Cuba.[1][2] In 1959 it signed a $10m contract with YPF of Argentina to drill 300 oil wells.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Minerals Yearbook, The Bureau, 1957. p768
  2. ^ Petroleum Engineer, Volume 27, Petroleum Engineer Publishing Company, 1955. pA-49
  3. ^ Petroleum Week, Volume 8, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1959. p39