Cool bit of Texas history..

[PondPopper]

You would think Kilgore would be a slight sink hole after all of that. At least a big depression.

[Snowflake Killa]

Cool picture

[asu-indian]

Yessir. Very Cool and worth the drive over to the museum.

[Drycreek3189]

Kilgore is floating on a sea of saltwater !

[PondPopper]

Kilgore is floating on a sea of saltwater !

Likely.
There is a large area here in Brazoria county that was covered with rigs years ago, and they literally pulled so much oil out of the ground that it caused a massive depression.

[Drycreek3189]

Likely.
There is a large area here in Brazoria county that was covered with rigs years ago, and they literally pulled so much oil out of the ground that it caused a massive depression.

Different producers have been injecting salt water from producing wells in the East Texas Field back into the formation for decades. It’s a science, seriously. They flood the formations with saltwater, the oil floats on top, and many, many wells have been flowing for decades with no pump jack. I haven’t been involved in that area since about 2003, but at that time lots of wells were still flowing, and owing that to flooding the formation with saltwater that had been separated from the crude oil. The ETF was, at one time, the biggest in the world, somewhere you can find how many billions of barrels of crude have been recovered.

On a side note, there are saltwater lines, unmarked, all over the place. Made of gunnite, if you touch them with any machinery, they break. Saltwater spill ! It was a damm contractor’s nightmare !

[dclifton]

Richest acre in the world at one time.