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Environmental assessment for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Big Hill facility storage of commercial crude oil project, Jefferson County, Texas

Description: The Big Hill SPR facility located in Jefferson County, Texas has been a permitted operating crude oil storage site since 1986 with benign environmental impacts. However, Congress has not authorized crude oil purchases for the SPR since 1990, and six storage caverns at Big Hill are underutilized with 70 million barrels of available storage capacity. On February 17, 1999, the Secretary of Energy offered the 70 million barrels of available storage at Big Hill for commercial use. Interested commerc… more
Date: March 1999
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Marking Texas History]

Description: Sound recording of a Jefferson County Historical Commission seminar in Beaumont, TX in April 1991, outlining the history of markers in Texas and the historic marker application process.
Date: April 1991
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Hays, Margaret Parx
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[WWH: Pig Stand]

Description: Text about the Pig Stand, a drive-in restaurant chain established in 1921, that was published in the "When..." section of a September 1997 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 1997-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with J. Frank Rollins, July 20, 1996

Description: Interview with J. Frank Rollins, an oilman and a geophysicist, concerning his work experience with Petty Geophysical Engineering Company doing refraction seismic work; his employment with Geophysical Service, Inc.; doing reflection and refraction work in 1936; oil exploration in South America; work in oil field instrumentation equipment; work as a "computer" interpreting geological data; founding of Rayflex Exploration Company in 1948; technological developments for oil field exploration; geoch… more
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Date: July 20, 1996
Creator: Daniels, John D. & Rollins, J. Frank
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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