Texas oil fields
Lone Star crude
Large petroleum deposits beneath the surface of Texas, particularly concentrated in the Permian Basin, East Texas, and Gulf Coast regions.
Texas oil fields transformed the state's economy in the early twentieth century and made it synonymous with American petroleum production.
The term often evokes images of gushers, wildcatters, and oil boom towns: His grandfather made his fortune in the Texas oil fields.
- wildcattersExploratory oil drillers
- boom and bustRecurring economic extremes
- drilling rigsEquipment for boring wells
- boomtownsFast-growing frontier settlements
- gusherOil well that erupts
black gold · refineries · crude · carbon emissions · roughnecks · offshore platforms · mineral rights · hydraulic fracturing · barrel of crude · pipe · land reclamation · pumpjack · pump jack · drill · energy markets · energy independence · fossil fuel · tar
Texas oil fieldswind farms
Grouped turbines generating electricity
hydroelectric dams · nuclear power plants · geothermal fields · solar farms · solar arrays
Texas oil fieldsnational parks
Protected natural areas
protected wetlands · conservation land · nature reserves · untouched wilderness · wildlife refuges
Texas, Texan, Texans, oil, oils, oiled, oiling, oily, oilier