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the firs compiney starting to digoil
Lyne T. Barret drilled Texas' first producing oil well in 1866 at Melrose in Nacogdoches County. -
the first oil renfineries
in Hardin County in 1893. The three small wells in Hardin County led to the creation of two small refineries in 1896 and 1898. -
spindetopoil find
is the most famous date in Texas petroleum history. This is the date that the great gusher erupted in the oil well being drilled at Spindletop, near Beaumont, by a mining engineer, Capt. A. F. Lucas. -
the oil start
on this day texas went into the 20th centry when a oil will shot oil and mund -
ofshor oil
The first offshore drilling was in shallow northern Galveston Bay, where the Goose Creek Field was discovered in 1908. Several dry holes followed, and the field was abandoned. But a gusher in 1916 created the real boom there
