(Reuters) – A century after a gusher at the Spindletop field in Beaumont, Texas, ushered in the first U.S. oil boom, a quieter oil craze is underway 300 miles west in a chain of counties more famous for cattle than crude.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/03/us-pipeline-eagle-ford-idUSTRE7426A220110503
