The Goose Creek Oil Field is a large oil field in Baytown, Texas, on Galveston Bay. Discovered in 1903, and reaching maximum production in 1918 after a series of spectacular gushers, it was one of the fields that contributed to the Texas Oil Boom of the early 20th century. The field was also the location of the first offshore wells in Texas,[1] and the second group of offshore wells in the United States. Consequences of the development of the Goose Creek field included an economic boom and associated influx of workers, the founding and fast growth of Baytown, and the building of the adjacent Baytown Refinery, which is now the 2nd largest oil refinery in the United States with a capacity of 584,000 barrels per day.[1] The field remains active, having produced over 150 million barrels (24,000,000 m3) of oil in its 100-year history.[2][3]
The Goose Creek field is also the first place where subsidence of overlying terrain was attributed to the removal of oil from underneath.[4] On the Goose Creek field, subsidence has damaged houses, roads, and businesses, and much of the oil field that was on land in the early years of its development is now submerged in Tabbs Bay. Subsidence-induced motion along faults on the field also caused the only earthquake of local origin ever felt in the Houston area.[5]
^ ab"Goose Creek Oilfield". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
^"Acquisition of Goose Creek field: 2006 press release" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
^Exxon Mobil Baytown Area
^Berman, Arthur E. "The Debate Over Subsidence in Coastal Louisiana and Texas". Houston Geological Society. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
^Garcia, T.D. "Subsidence and Surface Faulting at San Jacinto Monument, Goose Creek Oil Field, and Baytown, Texas". Field Trip Guidebook on Environmental Impact of Clays along the Upper Texas Coast. Prepared by Theron D. Garcia, Douglas W. Ming, and Lisa Kay Tuck for the Clay Minerals Society, 28th Annual Meeting. Held October 5–10, 1991, in Houston, TX. pp. A33-A44. Hosted with National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
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