 In 1916, the Humble Oil and Refining Company, founded by one-time Texas governor Ross S. Sterling and his associates, in developing the Goose Creek Oil Field, built the first offshore drilling operation in Texas and the second in the United States.The company later built the Baytown Refinery, which would become one of the largest Exxon refineries in the world.Since then, many other refineries have been built in the area.