Syntrio takes innovation beyond city limits.
In 1901 J. W. Lochridge, a farmer and rancher with land three miles southeast of the site of present Petrolia, hired Samuel McCord to dig a water well, but he was unable to find water and struck oil at a depth of 263 feet, thus opening the first oilfield in North Texas. The site was named Petrolia after a town in Pennsylvania because of the nearby oilfields.
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