Cerro Azul

Cerro Azul is a city in the Mexican country of Veracruz. Located in the nation's Huasteca Baja location, it serves because the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the equal name. The site had been a 10,000 acre area of rolling plains and hills used for livestock grazing. Hundreds of little asphalt springs dotted the region where cattle bones may be seen caught in the black seepage. Oil drilling in the location started out in 1906. The city's population grew exponentially following the drilling of the Cerro Azul No. 4 nicely, at the time the sector's largest pumping 260,000 barrels in keeping with day in February 1916.

The well becomes drilled with the aid of Herbert Wylie for the Mexican Petroleum Company after which controlled by means of California oilman Edward L. Doheny. When the nicely got here in the sound may be heard 16 miles away in Casiano, and shot a circulate of oil 598 feet into the air, sending oil in a two-mile radius. Over the subsequent 14 years the properly might produce over fifty seven million barrels. Doheny fashioned the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, of which the Mexican Petroleum Company component would later turn out to be the PEMEX.