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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] The Woodbine overlies the Maness Shale, Buda Limestone , or older rocks, and underlies the Eagle Ford Group or Austin Chalk .
Pearsall (/ ˈ p ɪər s ɔː l / PEER-sawl) is a city in and the county seat of Frio County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 7,325 at the 2020 census , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] down from 9,146 at the 2010 census.
Texas is approximately bisected by a series of faults that trend southwest to northeast across the state, from the area of Uvalde to Texarkana.South and east of these faults, the surface exposures consist mostly of Cenozoic sandstone and shale strata that grow progressively younger toward the coast, indicative of a regression that has continued from the late Mesozoic to the present.
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz. The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
Frio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 18,385. [1] The county seat is Pearsall. [2] The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1871. [3]
Eagle Ford Shale: Cretaceous: Eagle Ford Group/Britton Formation: Cretaceous: Eagle Ford Group/Lake Waco Formation: Cretaceous: Eagle Ford Group/Tarrant Formation: Cretaceous: East Mountain Shale: Carboniferous: Edwards Limestone: Cretaceous: Edwards Group/Segovia Formation: Cretaceous: El Paso Formation: Ordovician: El Paso Group/Florida ...
The payout marked the latest in a series of board decisions that allowed the oilfield supplier's top executives and founders to rake in tens of millions of dollars as shareholders saw the stock ...
The date usually cited as the end of the oil shale boom is Sunday, 2 May 1982, known locally as “Black Sunday,” when Exxon announced that it was closing its Colony Oil Shale Project and laying off more than 2,200 workers. The project, with a final price tag of US$5 billion, had cost its owners more than $1 billion by the time they quit.