Not sure about the mechanism to stop a gusher. Oklahoma had a lot of them. My old boss was a wildcatter in the 20s and 30s. He said when an oil well was not producing enough, they would pull the casing, and dig down 10 feet, throw a couple of burlap sacks down, and dump a yard of concrete on top, and cover it up, and try hard to lose all the paperwork.
There is a housing edition now in what was the West Edmond oil field. We had aerial photos of the area in 1947 and 1952 and it was covered in oil derricks. Bring in a new image and lay it on top and there are very expensive houses there. One lady turned on her garbage disposal, and her kitchen exploded. The corporation commission is in charge of all wells and they used some of our photos to investigate. The builder had noticed the evidence of the well, but just built over it.
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=WE013
Now that neighborhood loks very nice, and all the wells are properly capped. There are still some wells pumping oil in that field.