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==Oil Business==

==Oil Business==

[[Image:EWMarland.jpg|thumb|175px|left|[[E. W. Marland]] , [[Ponca City]] , Oklahoma]]

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[[Ponca City]] , Oklahoma]]

Ponca City's history has been shaped for the most part by the ebb and flow of the petroleum industry. The [[Marland Oil Company]], which once controlled approximately 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, was founded by eventual Oklahoma governor and U.S. congressman [[E. W. Marland]], who drilled his first successful oil well on land he leased from the [[Ponca]] Tribe of [[American Indians in the United States|American Indians]] in 1911.  

Ponca City's history has been shaped for the most part by the ebb and flow of the petroleum industry. The [[Marland Oil Company]], which once controlled approximately 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, was founded by eventual Oklahoma governor and U.S. congressman [[E. W. Marland]], who drilled his first successful oil well on land he leased from the [[Ponca]] Tribe of [[American Indians in the United States|American Indians]] in 1911.