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Lyne T. Barret drilled Texas' first producing oil well in 1866 at Melrose in Nacogdoches County.
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in Hardin County in 1893. The three small wells in Hardin County led to the creation of two small refineries in 1896 and 1898.
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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.
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on this day texas went into the 20th centry when a oil will shot oil and mund
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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
