and the discovery of the Greater Seminole Oil Field that the county
experienced an economic boom. By September 1929, this became the
premier high-gravity oil field in the United States.
The giant Seminole oil field was
one of the most important historical oil fields ever found. Discovered
in 1926, it contained an estimated 822,000,000 barrels of oil.
The Greater Seminole oil field was one of several fields discovered in
the mid-1920s that swung the United States' oil inventory from
scarcity to surplus.
Seminole Oil Field is an Oilfield in the state of Texas (county of
Gaines), located at latitude - longitude coordinates (also known as
lat-long or GPS coordinates) of
with diorama of how the Seminole Oil field looked in the late 1920's
complete with towns and many other items relating to the oil boom days
in Oklahoma.
Seminole oil field was one year old yesterday, and the upcoming Banner
Edition of The Producer will cover the first year of the great
Seminole Boom, a feature
of the Greater Seminole Oil Field was a modern city for that 1926-1930
period. Streets were crowded, business was good, petroleum was "King"
and the city was growing.
greater Seminole Oil Field was one of several fields discovered in the
mid-1920's that swung the United States' oil inventory from scarcity
to surplus.