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Spindletop gusher
January 10, 1901
Beaumont, Texas
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A well on a salt dome blew 150 feet over the derrick and ran nine days before it could be capped, at around 100,000 barrels a day, more than every other well in America combined. It created Gulf and Texaco, made oil cheap enough to displace coal, and pointed the century’s wealth at the Texas coast.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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