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2. Texas oil boom - Wikipedia

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   The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas. The find was unprecedented in its size (worldwide) and ushered in an age of rapid regional development ...

3. 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 ]

4. Yates Oil Field - Wikipedia

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   The Yates field is the southernmost of the large oil fields on the eastern rim of the Central Basin Platform in the Texas Permian Basin, the most productive petroleum-producing region in the continental United States. [4] The Permian Basin is a geologic region, about 300 miles (480 km) long and 250 miles (400 km) across, which was downwarped ...

5. Petroleum in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Top producing oil fields in the United States, 2019* being updated Rank Field State Discovery Year Million Bbl/Day 1 Permian: Texas/New Mexico 1920 4.2 2 Eagle Ford Shale: Texas 2008 1.34 3 Bakken: North Dakota/Montana 1951 1.33 4 Prudhoe Bay Oil Field: Alaska 1967 .791 5 Wattenberg Gas Field: Colorado 1970 .473 6 Shenzi Federal Gulf of Mexico ...

6. Permian Basin (North America) - Wikipedia

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   The Permian Basin is a large sedimentary basin in the southwestern part of the United States. It is the highest producing oil field in the United States, producing an average of 4.2 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2019. This sedimentary basin is located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. It is named after the Permian geologic ...

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 ...