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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 May 1935
AAPG Bulletin (1935) 19 (5): 618–643.
... and Peter Grandone, “Analyses of Spindletop, Texas, Crude Oils,” U. S. Bur. Mines Rep. Investigations (mimeograph), Serial 2808 (May, 1927). Sample number 15 is an unpublished analysis by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. 4 Paul Weaver orally has called the writer’s attention to a sixth type which has...
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Journal: The Leading Edge
Published: 01 September 1995
The Leading Edge (1995) 14 (9): 957–958.
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Journal: The Leading Edge
Published: 01 February 1995
The Leading Edge (1995) 14 (2): 113–117.
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Journal: The Leading Edge
Published: 01 January 1995
The Leading Edge (1995) 14 (1): 22–24.
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 April 1937
AAPG Bulletin (1937) 21 (4): 475–490.
.... The Spindletop oil field is located in the J. A. Veatch and P. Humphrey leagues, northeastern Jefferson County, Texas, about 2 miles south of Beaumont and approximately 40 miles from the coast. 2 Geologist, 303 Sterling Building. 3 Chief geologist and petroleum engineer, Glenn II. McCarthy...
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Series: AAPG Special Publication
Published: 01 January 1936
DOI: 10.1306/SV29337C15
EISBN: 9781629812540
... Abstract Four distinctive types of crude oil, one of which is. divisible into two subtypes, are present among the fifteen United States Bureau of Mines analyses of Spindletop crude. Types B, C, and D seem indigenous respectively to the Middle Miocene, Lower Miocene, and Oligocene; B...
Series: AAPG Special Publication
Published: 01 January 1926
DOI: 10.1306/SV1328C20
EISBN: 9781629812601
... Abstract The Spindletop oil field was the first and one of the most brilliant of the Gulf Coast oil fields. Spindletop is a characteristic Gulf Coast salt dome and is composed of a steep-sided, relatively flat-topped, circular salt core with a diameter of about 1 mile, and with a limestone...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 May 1925
AAPG Bulletin (1925) 9 (3): 594–612.
..., Rycade Oil Corporation, Houston, Tex. © 1925 American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved 1925 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Location .—Spindletop is in the northeast part of Jefferson County, in southeast Texas, about 3 miles south of Beaumont...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 April 1941
AAPG Bulletin (1941) 25 (4): 561–592.
... of the Miocene section at Lockport, Louisiana; and a similar factor has affected crude oils through all but the uppermost part of the Miocene section at Spindletop, Texas. Part of the similarity in pattern between crude oils of adjacent ages is the effect of persistence of similarity of source conditions over...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 August 1982
AAPG Bulletin (1982) 66 (8): 1042–1054.
...Michel T. Halbouty; James J. Halbouty ABSTRACT The discoveries of Spindletop field near Beaumont, Texas, on January 10, 1901, and the East Texas field, located between the cities of Longview and Tyler, Texas, on October 5, 1930, are probably the two most important events in the exploration history...
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—Topographic map of <span class="search-highlight">Spindletop</span> field, Jefferson County, <span class="search-highlight">Texas</span>.
Published: 01 April 1937
FIG. 1. —Topographic map of Spindletop field, Jefferson County, Texas.
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—Subsurface map of <span class="search-highlight">Spindletop</span> field, Jefferson County, <span class="search-highlight">Texas</span>. Contours base...
Published: 01 April 1937
FIG. 2. —Subsurface map of Spindletop field, Jefferson County, Texas. Contours based on top of cap rock. Cross-section lines from which profiles of dome were drawn are shown.
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—Subsurface map of <span class="search-highlight">Spindletop</span> field, Jefferson County, <span class="search-highlight">Texas</span>. Contours base...
Published: 01 April 1937
FIG. 3. —Subsurface map of Spindletop field, Jefferson County, Texas. Contours based on salt. Cross-section lines show where profiles of dome were drawn.
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—PRODUCTION OF PETROLEUM IN <span class="search-highlight">SPINDLETOP</span> FIELD, BEAUMONT, <span class="search-highlight">TEXAS</span>
Published: 01 April 1937
TABLE III —PRODUCTION OF PETROLEUM IN SPINDLETOP FIELD, BEAUMONT, TEXAS
Journal Article
Journal: Geophysics
Published: 01 April 1957
Geophysics (1957) 22 (2): 225–232.
... of Texas was at Spindletop in December, 1922, under the direction of Donald C. Barton, who later and at the time of his death in 1939 was Humble's chief research geologist. It was Donald Barton's idea that the known shallow piercement-type salt dome at Spindletop would furnish a testing ground for this new...
Series: AAPG Special Publication
Published: 01 January 2005
DOI: 10.1306/1034739SP2632
EISBN: 9781629810409
... at Spindletop, near Beaumont. Texas, on January 10, 1901. That historical find revolutionized industry and spawned the industrial development that the world enjoys today. It also focused the petroleum industry’s exploratory efforts on the search for other domes and anticlines. This search sustained the growth...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1939
AAPG Bulletin (1939) 23 (6): 871–888.
... of field discovery on the Gulf Coast since Spindletop. Because of depositional influences that are fundamental to the local occurrence of oil, commercial deposits on the coast are related to geologic and geographic zones, the boundaries of which are arbitrarily recognized. This change in discovery type...
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—Northwest-southeast cross section of <span class="search-highlight">Spindletop</span> dome, Jefferson County, Te...
Published: 01 April 1937
FIG. 7. —Northwest-southeast cross section of Spindletop dome, Jefferson County, Texas.
Series: AAPG Memoir
Published: 01 January 1972
DOI: 10.1306/M16371C20
EISBN: 9781629812205
... Abstract Port Acres and Port Arthur fields are located on the Gulf coastal plain of southeast Texas near the Louisiana border, northwest of the town of Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas. The fields lie along the down-dip part of the Frio (Oligocene) sandstone producing trend...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 December 1958
AAPG Bulletin (1958) 42 (12): 2935–2950.
... a small percentage from limited sand development. Oil activity on salt-dome structures in the Frio trend dates from the founding of the present oil industry with the discovery of oil at Spindletop and Jennings in 1901. Since that time, the oil industry has discovered approximately 455 fields in Texas...
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