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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 ]
Location of the Yates Oil Field in Texas, showing major and nearby cities. Black lines are county boundaries. The Yates Oil Field is a giant oil field in the Permian Basin of west Texas. Primarily in extreme southeastern Pecos County, it also stretches under the Pecos River and partially into Crockett County.
Jul. 10—AUSTIN — Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas for April 2024 came from 163,674 oil wells and 84,739 gas wells, a ...
Oil reserves in the Permian Basin were first documented by W.H Abrams in Mitchell County, West Texas in 1920. The first commercial well was opened a year later in 1921, in the newly discovered Westbrook Oil Field in Mitchell County, at a depth of 2,498 feet (761 m). Initially, the Permian Basin was thought to have a bowl-like shape, with ...
Location of the Spraberry Trend in Texas, showing major and nearby cities. Black lines are county boundaries. The Spraberry Trend (also known as the Spraberry Field, Spraberry Oil Field, and Spraberry Formation; sometimes erroneously written as Sprayberry) is a large oil field in the Permian Basin of West Texas, covering large parts of six counties, and having a total area of approximately ...
Two large earthquakes that hit the Permian basin, the top U.S. oilfield, this week have rattled the Texas oil industry and put a fresh spotlight on the water disposal practices that can lead to ...
Crane County is one of the largest oil-producing counties in Texas, with a total of 1.5 billion barrels (240,000,000 m 3) of oil pumped since oil was first discovered there. Cattle ranching and local government are other large employers; over 503,000 acres (2,040 km 2 ) of land are used for livestock grazing.
(The Center Square) – Job growth in the Texas oil and natural gas industry continues to remain strong, contributing to Texas again leading the U.S. in job growth last month. In October, the ...