The Spindletop In Texas

The Spindletop in Texas is a historic event that changed the oil industry forever. January 10, 1901 was the day of an enormous explosion of oil that reached a height of more than 150 feet and produced 100,000 barrels a day. A gusher of this magnitude was unheard of since it was way more powerful than anything else in the world. This caused a booming oil industry that grew to record highs and many of the oil companies in America such as Gulf Oil, Texaco, and Exxon. The Spindletop is a place where those companies can say they began.
The need for oil was needed around the mid-19th century and the creation of the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s had eventually created a need for something cheaper and a certainly more convenient product than coal. This need would lead eventually be filled by petroleum. Edwin Drake was the first to make his intention known to strictly drill for extract oil in 1859 in Pennsylvania which was roughly 42 years before the Spindletop ever happened. At this moment, Pennsylvania was producing more oil than any other state.
A man named Patillo Higgens first suspected that there was oil at the salt dome. In 1892, he organized the Gladys City Oil Gas and Manufacturing Company to see if his theory was indeed true. Many years later, Higgens ran into Anthony F. Lucas who shared the same views as on salt domes and then Lucas convinced two leading oilmen from Pennsylvania to finance the start of a drilling at the Spindletop. Higgens at the time did- not that this type of transaction was happening and later sued the