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Volume: 17 (1933)

Issue: 11. (November)

First Page: 1362

Last Page: 1386

Title: Sugarland Oil Field, Fort Bend County, Texas

Author(s): W. B. McCarter (2), P. H. O'Bannon (2)

Abstract:

The Sugarland oil field overlies a moderately deep salt dome which arched the super-cap sedimentary beds. Evidences of several local unconformities, brought about by erosion of the crest of the cap rock and the overlying Vicksburg formation, and submarine erosion of the Middle Oligocene formation with resulting sedimentary texture changes, and local thinning of several formations are shown. Altogether, 1,256 acres have produced (March, 1933) 16,762,597 barrels of oil, or an average acre-yield of 13,226 barrels. The water line has closed in uniformly around the structure. In the fourth year of pressure maintenance the reservoir pressure is 1,345 pounds per square inch, as compared with 1,550 pounds originally. The observance of bottom-hole pressure phenomena in several edg wells suggested that the approach of edge water could be foretold.

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