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The Spindletop well strikes oil, producing more than 17 million barrels of oil the next year.
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The Texas Company formed by J.S Cullinan changed to Texaco and moved to Houston as headquarters
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A large oil strike is made in the Humble oil field in Harris County.
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Oil is discovered at Goose Creek along Galveston Bay.
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The U.S Supreme Court orders the Standard Oil company to break up into several smaller companies.
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The Humble Oil Company was founded.
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The Houston Ship Channel opens, and Houston soon becomes an important oil-refining center.
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The legislature gave the Texas Railroad Commission, originally created to control the railroads, the jurisdiction to enforce laws regarding the oil industry
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An application is filed to drill for oil on state-owned land in West Texas. Several years later the Santa Rita No. 1 strikes oil.
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Oil was discovered west of Lubbock in the Duggan Field in Cochran County.