Wut! The first Russian oil refineries in the N. Caucasus were in 1823'''. Then Baku in 1830. By 1850 there were 136 oil wells pumping oil in Baku area. Meanwhile, the Drake well wasn't dug until 1859 in Venango County in N.W. Pennsylvania.
I was lied to in grade school. I was taught that the world's first oil well was the Drake well. Now I learn it wasn't the first. It wasn't even the in the first 200. Bummer!