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spindle top oil boom
For Texans, the 20th century did not begin on January 1, 1901, as it did for everyone else. It began nine days later, on Jan. 10, when, spurting drilling pipe, mud, gas and oil, the Lucas well blew in at Spindletop near Beaumont. The gusher spewed oil more than 100 feet into the air until it was capped nine days later. With that dramatic fanfare, Texas' economy was wrenched from its rural, agricultural roots and flung headlong into the petroleum and industrial age. -
Railroad CFommission of Texas
the rail road commision of texas regulated the oil and gas industry to provent the waist of resoces, protect rights, and the enviorment -
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon was an offshore oil drilling rig. Owned by Transocean. Built in 2001 in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries. On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, An explosion on the rig caused by a blowout killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 35 miles away. -
Galveston Bay
The actions that led up to the Galveston bay oil spill is a tanker collision that released up to 168,000 gallons of ful oil into the gulf of mexico.It happend because of a ship and barge collided in the houston ship channal.then fishermen started to lose there jobs, because the fish levels ar diying.
