A small museum at Chukuangkang Oil Field (出磺坑礦場) in Gongguan operated by the state-owned CPC Corporation. It documents the world’s second-oldest oil well and the longest-operating oil field still in production, with a history extending back to 1861. The Qing nationalized extraction here in 1877 and brought in American engineers to drill with modern machinery. The Imperial Japanese Navy assumed control of the field in 1895 and the Taiwan Petroleum Company industrialized the operation from 1903, reaching peak output in 1927.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
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- Oil Industry in Taiwan (台灣油業)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.