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Volume: 30 (1946)

Issue: 6. (June)

First Page: 972

Last Page: 979

Title: Development in South Texas in 1945

Author(s): Bruce Scrafford (2)

Abstract:

The rate of development attained during the closing months of 1944 continued throughout 1945 and accounted for the drilling of 1,618 wells of all categories, exceeding the rate of development of all previous years in this district. Ninety wells were dually completed and two wells triple completed giving a total effective completion of 1,712 wells. Four hundred and seventy-nine wildcat wells were drilled resulting in the discovery of 47 new fields and the extension of 37 producing areas. The total production of 132,923,000 barrels of oil, 7.7 per cent of the United States total production and 17.7 per cent of that produced in Texas, came from the fields of the South Texas district, establishing a new record. The Frio-Vicksburg trend accounted for 47 per cent of the new fie ds discovered as well as the greater part of field development and production in the district. The discovery of the Borregas and Monte Negra fields of Kleberg County appears to make inevitable an eventual merger of the producing areas of the Agua Dulce, Stratton, Seeligson, Tijerina, Canales, and Blucher fields. The combination of these structures will extend through parts of three counties, approximately 45 miles in length and 3 to 7 miles in width. Six oil and 7 gas-distillate discoveries were encountered in the lower Eocene trend, while the Yegua-Jackson formations of the upper Eocene trend accounted for 7 new oil fields and one gas field. Exploratory drilling found only one oil and 3 gas structures of minor reserve importance in the Cretaceous.

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