| A | B |
|---|
| Caulk | To make tight against leakage |
| Dry Hole | an unproductive oil well |
| Lease | A contract to hold or use land or property for a specified period of time |
| Pipeline | A line of pipes with pumps, valves, and control devises for transporting liquids, gases, or finely divided solids |
| Tanker | A cargo ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquids |
| Geologist | A scientist who studies the history of the earth and its life, especially as recorded in rocks |
| Fault | A fracture or break in the earth's crust |
| Wildcatter | An oil operator who drills for wells in territory not known to contain oil |
| Derrick | A framework or tower over a deep drill hole that supports the drill |
| Proration | A cutback on productions through quotas |
| Capital | Investment money |
| Petrochemical | A chemical made from petroleum or natural gas |
| Tin Smelter | An establishment that refines tin |
| Synthetic Rubber | Rubber produced from chemicals |
| Three uses of crude oil before Kerosene was discovered | Caulk boats, lubricate wheels, waterproof household items |
| What was Kerosene used for? | Fuel for lamps used to light houses |
| The early 1900 invention that created new demands for oil products | Gasoline-powered engine |
| The war that caused the first huge demand for fuels | World War I |
| When and where the first oil well was drilled in Texas | 1866 at Oil Springs, near Nacogdoches |
| The underground formation in which oil was found at Spindletop | Salt Dome near Beaumont |
| Current city near Spindletop | Beaumont, TX |
| What Spindletop started in Texas | Started the Texas oil boom |
| How oil operators reacted to Spindletop | Started searching for oil in other locations |
| Business leaders reaction to Spindletop | Built refineries, pipelines, tankers, and storage facilities |
| The underground formation in which oil was found near Humble | Salt dome near Humble |
| What the Humble Oil Company is known as today | Exxon |
| What is unusual about the Goose Creek Field | Some of the oil wells were in the water |
| Goose Creek's name today | Baytown |
| The underground formation in which oil was found in North Texas | Fault zone |
| First oil discovery in Permian Basin | Santa Rita #1 |
| The universities that get money from oil in West Texas | University of Texas and Texas A&M University |
| Two problem created by the oil boom | Expensive and wasteful methods AND too much oil was produced |
| The group the Texas legislature have the power to control the oil industry | Texas Railroad Commission |
| The four proration orders | Limited the number of wells that could be drilled in an area; required the wells be separated by certain distances, set production limits and limited the number of days of production |
| Lynne T. Barret | Driller for first oil well in Texas at Oil Springs, near Nacogdoches |
| W. T. Waggoner | Rancher looking for water in North Texas but found oil instead |
| Columbus "Dad" Joiner | Wildcatter that found the East Texas Oil Field, the biggest known oil field at the time |
