feb 5, 1917 - 1917 Oil discovered in western Venezuela

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The first oil wells of significance were not drilled until the early 1910s. Most of these oil concessions were granted to closest friends and family and they in turn passed them on to foreign oil companies that could actually develop them. From 1914 to 1917 more oil fields were discovered across the country.

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