Download or read book The East Texas oil field 1930 1950 written by East Texas Engineering Association and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Photos of Texas Oil written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hundred feet into the air, confirming the belief of Pattillo Higgins that black gold lay buried there. The Texas oil industry had begun in earnest, and neither Texas nor the world would ever be the same. In the years to come, Texas oil would fuel the nation’s automobiles and help to bring victory to the Allies in both world wars, shaping America’s destiny throughout the twentieth century. Join author and historian Mike Cox in this photographic visit to the heyday of Texas crude as he recounts the stories of key oil-patch discoveries around the state. Nearly 200 images in vivid black-and-white, with captions and introductions, offer a roughneck-close look at this uniquely American tale of dry holes and gushers, ragtowns and riches, boomtowns, blowouts, and wildcatters gone broke.
Download or read book Texas Oil and Gas written by Jeff A. Spencer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Oil and Gas documents in postcards the rapid growth of the Texas petroleum industry from its beginnings near Corsicana in the 1890s through the next several decades of oil booms throughout the state. The young 20th century opened with the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop in 1901. Thousands rushed from the oilfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to find work and riches. Continued drilling success along the Texas Gulf Coast transformed Houston into a major city and the Beaumont area into a major petrochemical center. Through the 1910s and 1920s, oil booms occurred in North Texas, the Panhandle, Central Texas, and West Texas. The giant East Texas oilfield, the second largest North American oilfield to Alaskas North Slope, was discovered in 1930. Texas oil replaced coal as fuel for the nations railroads and provided fuel for our military in two world wars.
Download or read book The Great Texas Oil Heist written by Robert Cargill and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1946. World War II was over. The thieves went to work. They drilled deviated wells from outside the East Texas Oil Field back into the oil that remained after 16 years of production. This was the oil field that supplied the oil needed for an Allied victory in 1945. The deviators continued their nefarious activity until an angry and aggressive attorney general led his posse of lawmen, including the Texas Rangers, into East Texas to stop the theft and administer Texas justice. I tell this story on the basis of 35 years of research and my father's well files. Yes, he drilled six of the nearly 400 deviated wells. I first learned of the so-called Slant-Hole scandal in late spring 1962. That's when colleagues in my research group at the University of California at Berkeley accosted me with the morning's San Francisco Chronicle. They knew my father was an East Texas oilman. One pointed to an article reporting that oilmen in East Texas had drilled "deviated" oil wells from beyond the known productive limits of the East Texas Oil Field to steal oil. "Has your dad been stealing oil?" "Of course, not!" I replied. I had known nothing of the illicit activity until that morning. Then a report in TIME further exposed the East Texas oil scandal that had erupted in my hometown of Longview. Here, then, for the first time, I reveal the story of how a few dozen oilmen stole up to 20 million barrels from the East Texas Oil Field. I am eager to share what I have learned and to tell the truth of the slant-hole scandal--the circumstances that made it inevitable, who did what to whom, and how the matter eventually reached its conclusion. Much of what I reveal in this book has been the tightly guarded secrets of the families of the participants so that grandchildren can be kept from knowledge of granddaddy's scandalous behavior. But most of what I reveal here lies barely hidden in the public record. The slant-hole story is a significant piece of Texas history, and it must be told before no one is left to tell it.
Download or read book A History of the East Texas Oil Field written by Noble Reverdy Williams and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Transcript of the Discussion Covering the East Texas Oil Field written by East Texas Geological Society and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Water Studies of the East Texas Oil Field written by East Texas Engineering Association and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Texas Oil Field Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Giant written by James M. Day and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the Black Giant in 1930 was the largest oil strike in the U.S. at that time, and its gushers changed the face of the oil industry. Oilmen, promoters, oil patch workers, and the nation's unemployed streamed into the tiny hamlets of East Texas for their share, but they faced wars between "big oil" and independent oilmen, bootleg or "hot oil," martial law, and legalized price fixing. Yet the Black Giant turned out to be the salvation of the drought-stricken farmers, helped in the fight against Germany and Japan, and made lots of folks "Texas rich." In "The Black Giant," the characters, times and oil industry skullduggery are recalled and explained in dozens of sidebars full of humorous facts and trivia. The author, law professor at Washing College of Law, The American University, practiced oil and gas law for more than 35 years and focused on oil and gas matters during the Arab oil embargo for the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Download or read book Texas Oil Gas Since 1543 written by C. A. Warner and published by Copano Bay Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1939, oil historian James A. Clark called this book, "the most valuable collection of historical, biographical, and statistical data on Texas oil ever assembled." This definitive history of the petroleum industry in Texas exhaustively addresses the geology, technology, and economic impact of the industry that made Texas synonymous with oil. (Technology & Industrial Arts)
Download or read book The East Texas oil field 1930 1940 written by East Texas Engineering Association and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and Geology of the East Texas Oil Field written by Larry Lynn Walker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East Texas of the late 1920's was dotted with sleepy, small towns filled with thousands of hard-working farmers living mostly hand-to-mouth. At first glance, this area appeared to be even more "depressed" than the rest of the country. This part of Texas had once been covered by thick forests of pines. No one could imagine the explosion of wealth and prosperity that was soon to arrive. In 1930, on a peaceful Sunday morning, while most East Texans were in church, a rumble in a field near Kilgore, Texas was to change the region forever. With the successful completion of the Daisy Bradford Well No. 3, one of the world's richest oil fields had arrived. The East Texas Oil Field covers approximately fifty miles north to south and approximately twelve miles east to west. Those who were dirt poor, as Mrs. Daisy Bradford was, were turned into millionaires. The more affluent, such as H. L. Hunt, became billionaires. The East Texas Oil Field, as the name implies, is located in the extreme eastern part of Texas. The discovery of this field was made on October 3, 1930 by C. M. Joiner. The field comprises approximately 130,620 acres and covers portions of Rusk, Cherokee, Smith, Gregg and Upshur Counties The production is derived from sand members of the Eagle-Ford-Woodbine group, of Cretaceous age. The structure of the reservoir is a broad, western-dipping, truncated homocline. Though the importance of the East Texas Oil Field has diminished in the last seventy years, it is still a vital and important part of East Texas.
Download or read book The East Texas Oil Field written by Helen Ray McHaney and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the East Texas Oil Field written by Lucile Silvey Beard and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Texas Oil Field written by James Anthony Clark and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kilgore Center of East Texas Oil Field written by Ruth Glass Anding and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The fabulous east Texas oil field written by Fred R. Pass and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
