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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 ...
December 27, 2017 - A fire broke out at an oil tank, in Cherokee County. [190] January 3, 2018 - An oil tank fire in Madison County. [191] January 24, 2018 - An explosion & fire at an oil rig injures 1, in Karnes County. [192] Feb. 25, 2018 - A lightning strike caused an explosion & fire, at an oil storage facility in Gonzales County. [193]
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 ...
Ira Yates, owner of the ranch and oil field, donated 152 acres (0.62 km 2) of his land for the townsite of Iraan, which town survives to the present day. Redbarn was abandoned in 1952. [10] The two major early operators of the field, Ohio Oil and Mid-Kansas, merged in 1962 to form Marathon Oil, which ran the field until
A fire damaged vehicle after three days ago it struck an above-ground valve causing a large pipeline fire, on Sept. 18, 2024, in Deer Park, Texas.
A red flag warning was in effect for the South Plains and Panhandle of Texas and portions of eastern New Mexico as strong winds and dry conditions were creating an elevated fire risk Monday.
Goose Creek Oil Field, c. 1919. Exploration of salt domes across the plains of the Texas Gulf Coast took off with major oil fields opening at Sour Lake in 1902, Batson in 1903, Humble in 1905, and Goose Creek (modern Baytown) in 1908. [5]
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields is a three-episode limited series that tells the story of the victims whose bodies were dumped in an oil field that makes up a 50-mile stretch of highway ...