Santa Rita No. 1: Discovery Well Transformed the Permian Basin

Posted 5/3/23

BIG LAKE – Nearly a century ago, on May 28, 1923, an unlikely oil well in West Texas known as Santa Rita No. 1 changed the course of the American oil industry and propelled the Permian Basin to the forefront of global oil production.

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