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Volume: 31 (1947)

Issue: 6. (June)

First Page: 999

Last Page: 1005

Title: Developments in North Mid-Continent in 1946

Author(s): Edward A. Koester (2), Virgil B. Cole (3)

Abstract:

Several potentially important widely scattered wildcat discoveries near the close of the year featured a rather quiet period of exploration and development in Kansas. Each of these discoveries, located in Kingman, Barber, Harvey, and Ellis counties, either gives promise of prolific production or is in an area in which a pool of more than average size may be developed. These discoveries have served as a stimulus to additional exploratory work in the vicinity of each well and many additional tests are being planned for 1947. In addition, there was the usual number of small pools or further extensions on the relatively shallow Central Kansas uplift. These pools were found mainly in Rooks, Ellis, Rush, and Barton counties.

There were no important developments and very little drilling in Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa in the year.

Kansas produced 98,193,272 barrels of crude oil and casinghead gasoline in 1946, slightly less than the production for 1945. Gas production amounted to 122,600,000,000 cubic feet. Development of the huge Hugoton gas field in the southwestern part of the state continued at a rapid rate, but the increased runs from that field did not make up for the decline in gas production from the older fields. Many of the marginal wells in the Hugoton field have no outlet at present.

Return to closer spacing in the development of Kansas fields is reflected in the dry-hole percentage of all wells drilled of 32.2 per cent compared with the figure of 41.5 per cent for 1945 and 50.5 per cent for 1944 when nearly all wells were located on a 40-acre basis.

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