On 10 January 1901 the Lucas well on the Spindletop salt dome south of Beaumont, Texas blew in, throwing oil more than a hundred feet high for nine days at an estimated hundred thousand barrels a day before it was capped. Nothing like that flow had been seen anywhere, and the Handbook of Texas marks the strike as the birth of the modern petroleum industry; the Drake well of 1859 had begun the oil business, Spindletop made it an industry of scale.
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Milestone Year Milestone Date LocationBeaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, United States 1 Connections
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Higgins predicted and promoted exploration at Spindletop Hill years before the 1901 gusher that Anthony Lucas drilled.
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Texas State Historical AssociationHandbook of Texas, Spindletop OilfieldQuote, Handbook of Texas, Spindletop Oilfield
discovered on a salt dome formation south of Beaumont in eastern Jefferson County on January 10, 1901
United States Environmental Protection Agency Official Site
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resulting in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon
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