(l-r) Geophysicist Brain Kalinec of I.P. Petroleum and Chet Pohle Geophysics Manager of E&B Natural Resources along with
E&B Natural Resources Director of Land G.R. "Bud" Tippens, Wednesday, February 6, 2013. The Three are planning to drill for
oil in Spindletop, and have put together a presentation for the NAPE conference. (Billy Smith II / Houston Chronicle)
Photo: Billy Smith II, Staff
Horses pull a wagon through an oil field at Spindletop in 1901.
A pig roams past shops in Gladys City, the boomtown at Spindletop.
A Spindletop drilling crew in 1901.
The above Monument is now in the Town
of Sour Lake, some 20 miles west of beaumont
which marks the first producing well for what
was to become the Texas Company or TEXACO.
The Texas Company Fee NO.3
The orginal marker used to be in the old oil field
at the well location.