Celebrating Hardstoft
Jonathan Craig hails the forthcoming conference to commemorate the first producing oil well on the British mainland.
The Geological Society will celebrate the Centenary of the Hardstoft Discovery – Britain’s first Oil Field – in May 2019. The celebration will start during a special conference next month on ‘European Oil & Gas Industry History’ at Burlington House (3, 4 March), convened by Petroleum Group, History of Geology Group (HOGG) and the Petroleum History Institute.
A fieldtrip to the East Midlands Oil Province following the conference will include a visit to the Hardstoft No. 1 well site. Further details are available on the conference event page. To coincide with this conference, next month’s main Feature article in Geoscientist (written by me with co-authors Gluyas, Laing and Schofield) will tell the story of how the UK got its first producing well.