“When Humble Oil officials arrive at the Court House next Monday morning they will find an assembly of Aspenites protesting their attempts to break the city’s zoning,” noted the Aspen Times on ...

Tangling with Big Oil with its resources has usually been futile, but Aspen took on Humble Oil in the 1960s and won. The battle began in 1964 when Humble Oil submitted plans for a gas station to the ...

More than a century ago, an oil boom led Humble to the top producing oilfield in Texas and the success spawned a burgeoning growth in population that has risen from only a few hundred residents during ...

Back in the early 1900's Humble, formerly called "Pleasant Humble" was known as the largest oil producing field in Texas. When Humble struck oil in 1904, the town's population increased from several ...

The city of Humble will tap into its rich history with the 24th Annual Good Oil Days Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the downtown area. The festival of arts and crafts, food and fun will ...

Exxon Mobil’s decision to move its headquarters to Houston is perhaps the capstone to the corporation’s deep roots and long history in the region. That history can be traced back to Spindletop, the ...

With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the ...

“I have never seen a refinery as beautiful as a cypress tree.” — C.W. Fisher of the Carmel Citizens Committee. MOSS LANDING — This could be a film. Except it’s a true story about things that happened ...