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Gushers were an icon of oil exploration and production during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Drilling techniques and equipment employed at that time could not accommodate high-pressure reservoirs, and when the reservoirs were breached, the oil would shoot up the well, forcing out the drill head and creating a gusher. This event was referred to as a "blow out".
It was not until 1924 that the first successful blowout preventer, a valve affixed to the well head to regulate high-pressure oil flow, was brought to market.[2] Blowout preventers soon became standard equipment, and gushers became largely a thing of the past.
Gushers were dangerous and wasteful. They could kill workmen involved in drilling, destroy equipment, and coat the landscape with thousands of barrels of oil. The freely-flowing oil was in constant danger of catching fire.[3]
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_gusher
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