Talk:Spindletop

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Untitled[edit]

There really should be some content here about the controversial "Pelham Humphries" Spindletop land ownership dispute...4.88.154.93 21:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicts with "Second Industrial Revolution" article[edit]

According to this article, an oil discovery in 1901 fuelled the "Second Industrial Revolution". According to the "Second Industrial Revolution" article, it covered the period from 1865-1900. 86.16.115.126 (talk) 15:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Obv. they're discussing different topics. The 2nd Industrial Rev. article is about the electrification of industry; this article is discussing the growth of petroleum and internal combustion engines. It's an inexact term. -LlywelynII (talk) 12:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Photo[edit]

Anybody know any of the specifics on how the gusher photo was obtained? The notes say it was obtained from the "The American Petroleum Institute" but that is not enough info to actually verify that it is legally being used.

--Mcorazao (talk) 00:57, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cited Needed Tags[edit]

Removed as inappropriate. For the curious, the facts in question are located at the cited Texas Almanac article. -LlywelynII (talk) 12:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Restored the citation tags as appropriate. I looked at the Texas Almanac link, and it contains only population figures. Please add proper citations before you remove citation tags. Thanks. Plazak (talk) 15:34, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hyperbole[edit]

I removed a sentence asserting that no other oilfield in history had been as productive as Spindletop. This is just silly: the Ghawar Field, for example, has produced over 65 billion barrels of oil to date, and is still going strong. --Pete Tillman (talk) 05:15, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I read that as "no other oil field up to that time had ever been as productive" - in its day, it was exceptional and Ghawar was nearly 50 years later. --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:20, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believed Wtshymanski has the right idea on this, keyword in the sentence was "had." No one is asserting that Spindletop is the most productive field in history. It was the most productive field up until that point in history. ThomasHorn7 (talk) 16:09, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Land owner?[edit]

Where's all the information on the family that owned the land and was compensated for the oil discovery and production? What happened to their fortune and who did they leave it to in their "will"? Where is the fortune now? Who has control over it and why? Tommyballs69 (talk) 07:25, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]