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  2. Texas oil boom - Wikipedia

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    A Brief History of the East Texas Oil Field (East Texas Oil Museum) Oil and Texas: A Cultural History (Texas Almanac) Oil Boom (The Depot Museum, Henderson) Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum; Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont "Santa Rita No. 1 – Big Lake ~ Marker Number: 4587". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1965.

  3. Brent oilfield - Wikipedia

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    Shell initially named all of its UK oil fields after seabirds in alphabetical order by discovery – Auk, Brent, Cormorant, Dunlin, Eider, Fulmar and so on. Brent refers to the brent goose, and in turn gave its initials to the geologic subdivisions of the Middle Jurassic-age Brent Group that make up the field: Broom, Rannoch, Etive, Ness and Tarbert formations, with each name representing a ...

  4. Spindletop - Wikipedia

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    Spindletop produced 17,420,949 barrels of oil in 1902, but only half that much in 1903 as production declined. Yet Spindletop inspired wildcatting along the Gulf Coastal Plain. Significant salt dome oil fields included Sour Lake and Saratoga in 1902, Batson Prairie in 1903, the Humble oil field in 1905, and the Goose Creek Oil Field in 1908.

  5. History of the petroleum industry - Wikipedia

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    Oil field in California, 1938. The modern history of petroleum began in the nineteenth century with the refining of paraffin from crude oil. The Scottish chemist James Young in 1847 noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, Derbyshire from which he distilled a light thin oil suitable for use as lamp oil, at the same time obtaining a thicker oil suitable for ...

  6. Largest wildfire in Texas history claims two lives. See map ...

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    The Panhandle wildfires continue to rage.The Smokehouse Creek Fire became the largest in state history, topping the 2006 Amarillo East Complex fires that claimed 12 lives and burned more than ...

  7. Category:Oil fields in Texas - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 11:33 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Broken power pole and downed wires caused largest fire in ...

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    That fire was reported at 6:23 p.m. on Feb. 26 at an oil field, and was caused when a power line that “ran directly thru the top of a small tree” made contact with tree limbs, a forest service ...

  9. Petroleum in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prudhoe Bay Oil Field: Alaska 1967 .791 5 Wattenberg Gas Field: Colorado 1970 .473 6 Shenzi Federal Gulf of Mexico 2002 .353 7 Kuparuk River oil field: Alaska 1969 .295 8 Midway-Sunset Oil Field: California 1901 .288 9 Atlantis Oil Field: Federal Gulf of Mexico 1998 .273 10 Sugarkane Texas 2009 .258 Annual production 2013. Source: [9]