Texas Oil Industry

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Across
  1. 1. The small city in Texas where oil was first drilled before Spindletop
  2. 3. The largest city in Texas that grew because of the oil industry
  3. 4. The name of the structure that is built around an oil drilling site, to support the drill. (First three letters are the word oil.)
  4. 7. A way of getting oil or gas out of the ground by drilling down then sideways. (Hint: ITs one of the vocabulary words you had to research.)
  5. 9. Someone to takes a risk to drill for oil, not knowing if there will be any there.
  6. 10. Another word for oil when it comes out of the ground
  7. 12. What a town in Texas was called when people discovered oil near it, and suddenly it grew in population overnight
Down
  1. 2. A place where petroleum is cleaned and made into products such as gasoline
  2. 5. One of the largest cities in Texas that became a financial and banking center.
  3. 6. The big "gusher" in 1901 that started the oil boom in Texas
  4. 8. Nickname for when oil comes shooting out of the ground
  5. 11. An industry that grew in the East Texas piney woods because the oilmen needed to build derricks