Humble, Texas and
Humble Instruments & Services, Inc.
a brief history and statement of
capabilities and products
Humble, Texas
was founded in the late 1800's by an Englishman named Pleasanton
Humble. The pronunciation by the Humble clan being of English origin
is pronounced with a silent "H",
and thus, the town name is pronounced "Umble". This gives
credence to a popular local saying of
"Get the
"H" of Humble".
If want you want to make some quick friends locally, stop by and say
Humble rather than Umble; perhaps you'll get off easy only being
called a "damned Yankee".
Perhaps not. Why the town wasn't called "Pleasanton" remains
a mystery, but perhaps the town folks response to being called Humble
with an "H" addresses that
point.
Bubbles of oil were first observed seeping from ground near the
San Jacinto river in 1887. Humble became an oil boom town in the
early 1900's when oil was first produced here. The first oil was
produced a couple years after the famous Spindletop discovery in
Beaumont, Texas. Appropriately enough the first oil was discovered
at a location referred to as "Moonshine Hill" just south
of the
San Jacinto river and just north of down town
Humble. Railroad linkage to the rest of world was established in
1904 and shortly thereafter the first tank car of oil was shipped
out of Humble's oil field.
Humble Oil and Refining Company was founded by Ross Sterling
in 1909. Sterling later became Governor of Texas. Of course,
Humble Oil became Exxon in the middle 1960's and the Exxon
Production Research building on Buffalo Speedway bears the
cornerstone reading "Humble Oil and Refining Company".
The Humble oil fields are still active and have produced over
138,835,590 barrels of oil.
Downtown Humble is located on a salt dome and most of the
production is shallow and encircles the city by about a 2.5 mile
radius. Humble Instruments
& Services, Inc. is located at 218 Higgins Street, Higgins
Street being named after the Higgins #1 well at Moonshine Hill. We
set right on top of the salt dome, being near the highest point in
Humble about 30 ft. above sea level.
Our company, Humble Instruments &
Services, Inc. was founded in 1987.
Humble Geochemical Services Division
was added in 1991.
Humble Geochemical Services
offers complete analytical and interpretive services in organic
geochemistry. While offering all services (except carbon isotopic
analysis), We also develops new methodologies that are not available
elsewhere. For example, our compositional kinetics efforts have led
to a new era in assessing the rates at which source rocks decompose
into oil and gas. In addition the yields of oil and gas can be
assessed at various levels of maturity or conversion.
Hydrous pyrolysis gas and oil yields and
kerogen conversion
Bulk kinetics analysis using
Kinetics2000 -
exclusive
Compositional kinetic analysis using the
MACT10 -
exclusive
Compositional yields assessments at various
maturities -
exclusive
1D basin modeling
We maintain the latest in analytical instrumentation including
3 new HP 6890 gas chromatographs with flow programming
and a new 5973 MSD that is much more sensitive and has
an extended mass range over previous HP MSD GC/MS systems.
See our laboratory tour for more instrumentation
news (coming soon).
Humble Geochemical
Services has the following key professional staff to
assist you in your geochemical or analytical projects:
, President
, Engineering
, Administrative Manager
Humble, Texas
was founded in the late 1800's by an Englishman named Pleasanton
Humble. The pronunciation by the Humble clan being of English origin
is pronounced with a silent "H",
and thus, the town name is pronounced "Umble". This gives
credence to a popular local saying of
"Get the
"H" of Humble".
If want you want to make some quick friends locally, stop by and say
Humble rather than Umble; perhaps you'll get off easy only being
called a "damned Yankee".
Perhaps not. Why the town wasn't called "Pleasanton" remains
a mystery, but perhaps the town folks response to being called Humble
with an "H" addresses that
point.