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Volume: 41 (1957)

Issue: 2. (February)

First Page: 352

Last Page: 352

Title: Santa Fe Pool Development Santa Fe Springs Oil Field, California: ABSTRACT

Author(s): C. L. Doyle

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

Development of the Santa Fe pool was begun with the completion on February 2, 1956, of General Petroleum Corporation's Santa Fe 243 from intervals between 8,050 and 9,010 feet. The initial flow rate was 1187 B/D, 33.3° oil with 844 Mcf/D gas.

The pool underlies the Clark-Hathaway zone, the deepest previously known commercial zone in the field which was discovered and developed between 1928 and 1930. A number of sub-Clark-Hathaway tests have been drilled since 1930. Late discovery of the pool was a result of its small size and the fact that the accumulation is not coincident with the best structural location of the shallower zones.

The Santa Fe pool is of late Miocene age and composed of a series of relatively low-permeability sands with interbedded shales. Total sand in the section is 300-350 feet. Primary control of the accumulation is structural with the crest offset easterly from that of the shallower zones.

The pool has a productive area of about 100 acres. Water is present in members between the producing zones. Gas-bearing members are found at high structural position.

Development of the pool has been rapid, for in spite of its small size, ten operators hold productive land. Well spacing varies from less than an acre to 10 acres. Production practices have been highly competitive, with all sands of the pool open to production.

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