Doodlebugging for oil

Doodlebuggers or doodlebugging refers to map dowsing. Fact is, you can find websites for oil exploration, mention of pages that dowser play an important role in locating petroleum. Exploration company pages I looked was in Alabama area (few years back). With map dowsing, it helps to use Y-Rod (or L-Rod) by dowsers on site. Here is a useful articlle.

The petroleum industry has used dowsing to locate oil wells. Dowsers are called Doodlebuggers. One of the most successful dowsers was Paul Clement Brown of California, an MIT graduate and electrical engineer, who used dowsing to successfully dowse oil wells for Standard Oil, Signal Oil, Getty Oil, Mobil Oil, and others.

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