A Surprising Competitor
Lone Star Producing Company might not sound like a very technical and scientific name for a company about to achieve an incredible feat, but it would be on an oil drilling mission in Washita County in Oklahoma that they would do so rather unwittingly. While drilling, they ended up making what was eventually called the “Bertha Rogers hole”, which reached a staggering 31,400 feet below the earth’s surface. They broke a record without even meaning to!
A Surprising Competitor
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