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2. Barnett Shale - Wikipedia

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   The Barnett Shale is a geological formation located in the Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin. It consists of sedimentary rocks dating from the Mississippian period (354–323 million years ago) in Texas. The formation underlies the city of Fort Worth and underlies 5,000 mi 2 (13,000 km 2) and at least 17 counties.

3. Texas oil boom - Wikipedia

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   Dallas and Fort Worth experienced one of their greatest oil-related construction booms in 1930 and 1931, when the opening of the East Texas oil field helped establish Dallas as the financial center for the oil industry in Texas and Oklahoma. [80]

4. Woodbine Group - Wikipedia

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   The Woodbine Group is a geological formation in east Texas whose strata date back to the Early to Middle Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous. [1] It is the producing formation of the giant East Texas Oil Field (also known as the "Black Giant") from which over 5.42 billion barrels of oil have been produced. [3]

5. 7 Oil Field Jobs Companies Are Desperate To Fill - AOL

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   "Even if we are [energy independent], we can't hire enough people to keep it running," says Brian Aylor, who works in the oil fields in Midland, Texas, where the current oil boom plunged ...

6. East Texas Oil Field - Wikipedia

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   The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres (57,000 ha) and parts of five counties, and having 30,340 historic and active oil wells, it is the second-largest oil field in the United States outside Alaska, and first in total volume of oil recovered since its discovery in 1930. [ 1 ]

7. List of oil fields - Wikipedia

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   Yates Oil Field: United States, Texas: 1926 1926 1929 3.0 (2.0 billion recovered; 1.0 reserve remaining) [39] [40] Kuparuk oil field: United States, Alaska: 1969 6 Alpine, Alaska: United States, Alaska: 1994 2000 2005 0.4–1 0.05 East Texas Oil Field: United States, Texas: 1930 6 Spraberry Trend: United States, Texas: 1943 10 [41] Wilmington ...