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Oil exploration began in earnest in 1916 with an unsuccessful well east of El Dorado, in Union County (which at the time was known as Urbana County). A week after Samuel S. Hunter found modest amounts of oil in the Hunter No. 1 well near Stephens, Arkansas, the Constantin Oil and Refining Company found large amounts of oil and natural gas. Soon ...
Prior to the 1921 discovery of oil in nearby El Dorado, Smackover was part of the declining timber and cotton industries. With the discovery of oil in El Dorado on January 10, 1921, the area boomed with geologists looking for more. [2] The search for oil was then directed north towards the small town of Smackover, near the Ouachita River fault ...
Oil was discovered in this area in 1922; it attracted national attention, speculators, and an economic boom. Smackover was incorporated in 1923. In the 1920s there was a large-scale oil industry in Smackover. [4] The industry declined here and across southern Arkansas by the 1960s, at a cost of many jobs and major losses to the area economy.
For open space filling to take effect, the confining pressure is generally considered to be below 0.5 GPa, or less than 3–5 km (2–3 mi). Veins formed in this way may exhibit a colloform, agate-like habit, of sequential selvages of minerals which radiate out from nucleation points on the vein walls and appear to fill up the available open ...
In 1925, the National Gypsum Company opened a quarry nearby, and the name of the post office was changed to National City in 1926. [6] The National City post office, with ZIP code 48748, provides service to a portion of Sherman Township, as well as to another discontinuous area in Grant, Plainfield, Wilber, and Tawas townships to the north. [7]
The J.T. Murphy No. 1 Crater is the site of a historic oil-drilling accident near Norphlet, Union County, Arkansas.The site is located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north and west of Norphlet, off Firetower Road about 3/4 mile (1.21 km) north of its junction with Baugh Street.
The company was founded in 2002 by Paul M. Rady and Glen C. Warren, Jr. after they sold their previous venture, Pennaco Energy, to Marathon Oil. Beginning in February 2003, Warburg Pincus invested over $1.5 billion into the company and at one time held a controlling stake. [3] In 2005, the company sold its assets in the Barnett Shale to XTO ...
Main parts of the system are 2,306-kilometre-long (1,433 mi) Canadian Mainline [1] and 3,057-kilometre-long (1,900 mi) Lakehead System (U.S. Mainline). [2] On average, it delivers 1.4 million barrels per day (220 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) of crude oil and other products to the major oil refineries in the American Midwest and the Canadian province of ...