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The International Drillers (known historically as the Foreign Drillers) is the name given to the more than 500 drillers from Lambton County who worked in oil fields across the world between December 1873 to the mid-1940s. Many of the International Drillers grew up learning the oil business in Enniskillen County and provided the skilled labour, expertise and technology necessary for the development of the global petroleum industry.

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  • The International Drillers (known historically as the Foreign Drillers) is the name given to the more than 500 drillers from Lambton County who worked in oil fields across the world between December 1873 to the mid-1940s. Many of the International Drillers grew up learning the oil business in Enniskillen County and provided the skilled labour, expertise and technology necessary for the development of the global petroleum industry. (en)
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  • No other oil centre on the American Continent has contributed so many expert drillers and oil operators to foreign countries for the production and development of the industry...They have gone from there to the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, the West Indies, Austria, Germany, Russia, Egypt, Sinai, East Africa, Madagascar, Persia, India, Burma, the Orient, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand and have been foremost in locating oil territory, in mechanical inventions, in their methods of production and in the marketing of the product. (en)
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  • The International Drillers (known historically as the Foreign Drillers) is the name given to the more than 500 drillers from Lambton County who worked in oil fields across the world between December 1873 to the mid-1940s. Many of the International Drillers grew up learning the oil business in Enniskillen County and provided the skilled labour, expertise and technology necessary for the development of the global petroleum industry. (en)
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