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  2. Spindletop - Wikipedia

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    The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period. [2] On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindletop struck oil ("came in"). The Spindletop gusher blew for 9 days at a rate estimated at 100,000 barrels (16,000 m 3) of oil per day. [3]

  3. Blowout (well drilling) - Wikipedia

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    The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, Texas (1901) A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. [1] Modern wells have blowout preventers intended to prevent such an occurrence. An accidental spark during a blowout can lead to a catastrophic oil or gas fire.

  4. Cameron ram-type blowout preventer - Wikipedia

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    The blowout of the Lucas well at the Spindletop field in 1901 lasted for over nine days and spilled over 500,000 US barrels (60,000,000 L; 16,000,000 US gal; 13,000,000 imp gal) of oil. [ 4 ] James Smither Abercrombie (1891–1975), a Texas oil driller, and Harry S. Cameron (1872–1928), who operated a machine shop, formed the Cameron Iron ...

  5. Pattillo Higgins - Wikipedia

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    The geyser shot oil over 150 feet (46 m) high and flowed an estimated 100,000 barrels per day (16,000 m 3 /d). [9] The well was at a depth of 1,020 feet (310 m), and as it turns out, was at the precise location as initially predicted by Higgins. The well would not have struck oil if it had been drilled just 50 feet (15 m) to the south. [10]

  6. Control and indicating equipment - Wikipedia

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    The fire detection and fire alarm system subcommittee of ISO/TC 21, Equipment for Fire Protection and Fire Fighting, had oversight for development of five standards covering detectors, control and indicating equipment. ISO 7240-2:3003 specifies requirements, test methods and performance criteria for control and indicating equipment (c.i.e.) for ...

  7. Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is located in Beaumont, Texas, to commemorate the discovery of oil at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in Beaumont on Jan. 10, 1901. The discovery sparked an oil boom in Texas that continues today. Along with a gift shop with commemorative gifts, the museum features historical, period reenactments by area ...

  8. Mid-Continent oil province - Wikipedia

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    The first commercially successful oil well drilled in the area was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892. [1] The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 at Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1897, Spindletop at Beaumont, Texas in 1901, and Oklahoma's Ida Glenn No. 1 at the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the ...

  9. Category:Oil fields in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Oil fields in Texas" ... Spindletop; Spraberry Trend; Y. Yates Oil Field This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 11:33 ...