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05/20/2026

Today in Oil and Gas history
May 19, 1942 - Oklahoma Inventor patents
Portable Drilling Rig.

A pioneer in oilfield technologies, George E.
Failing of Enid, Oklahoma, received a patent for his design of a drilling rig on a truck bed. "I designate the rear portion of a drilling rig such as used in drilling shallow wells, the taking of cores, drilling of shot-holes, and performing similar oil field operations," Failing noted in his patent for a design he first built in 1931.
In 1931, he had mounted a rig on a 1927 Ford farm truck, "adding a power take-off assembly to transfer power from the truck engine to the drill," according to the Oklahoma Historical Society. Failing would receive more than 300 patents for oilfield tools, "from rock bit cores to an apparatus for seismic surveying."
Failing's portable rig could drill ten slanted,
50-foot holes in a single day, while a traditional rotary rig took about a week to set up and drill to a similar depth. He demonstrated his portable drilling technology at a 1933 well disaster in Conroe, Texas, working with H. John Eastman, today considered the father of directional drilling.

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