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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 ]
A Brief History of the East Texas Oil Field (East Texas Oil Museum) Oil and Texas: A Cultural History (Texas Almanac) Oil Boom (The Depot Museum, Henderson) Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum; Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont "Santa Rita No. 1 – Big Lake ~ Marker Number: 4587". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1965.
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 Oil Field: United States, California: 1932 3 South Belridge Oil Field: United States, California: 1911 2 [42 ...
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]
Two centuries in East Texas: A history of San Augustine County and surrounding territory from 1685 by George Louis Crocket (Author) OCLC 15211641; The Last Boom: The Exciting Saga of the Discovery of the Greatest Oil Field in America by James Anthony Clark (Author) and Michel T. Halbouty (Author) ISBN 978-0-39-448232-3.
Columbus Marion Joiner, nicknamed Dad Joiner (March 12, 1860 – March 27, 1947), was an American politician oilman who at the age of seventy drilled the discovery well of the East Texas Oil Field of the 1930s. [1] Newspaper articles referred to Joiner as the Daddy of the Rusk County Oil Field. [2]: 6, 70, 288
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. (February 17, 1889 – November 29, 1974) was an American oil tycoon. [1] By trading poker winnings for oil rights according to legend, but more likely through money he gained from successful speculation in oil leases, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world's largest oil deposits.
The oil field is an accumulation of petroleum in sediment overlying a deep salt dome, one of several such fields in the Gulf of Mexico region. It was the first oil field to be found in a deep rather than a shallow salt dome, and its discovery led to the search for others like it; the finds that resulted were some of the largest oil fields in the United States. [1]