Texas oil
Black gold, Southwest
Texas oil refers to the petroleum industry centered in Texas, historically the dominant force in American oil production since the early twentieth century.
The Spindletop gusher of 1901 launched Texas as an oil powerhouse, and the state remains synonymous with the industry's wealth and culture: He made his fortune in Texas oil.
The phrase often evokes wildcatters, boom towns, and the outsized personalities associated with oil money.
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- gusherOil well that erupts
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- drilling rigWell-boring machinery platform
wildcatter · Permian · refinery · barrel · drilling · pump jack · roughneck · pipeline · Houston · boom · boom and bust · strike it rich · black gold · liquid gold · rig · Exxon · shale · fracking
- petroleumcrude, petroleum, oilfields, kerosene, diesel fuel
- American exportssoybeans, aircraft, machinery, pharmaceuticals, petroleum
- regional industriesforestry, lumber, dairy farming, Napa wine, fishing
- 1901Theodore Roosevelt, Edward VII
- oil industrypetroleum, crude, drilling, drilling rig, refineries
- economic regionseconomic zones, industrial zones, trade zones, rust belt, corn belt
Texas oilsolar power
Energy derived from sunlight
wind energy · renewable energy · clean energy · green energy · hydroelectric power
Texas, oil, Texan, oils, oiled, oiling, oily, oilier, oiliest