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Volume: 41 (1957)

Issue: 7. (July)

First Page: 1441

Last Page: 1453

Title: Petroleum Developments in Mexico in 1956

Author(s): Eduardo J. Guzman (2), Federico Mina U. (3)

Abstract:

An increase of 21.8% over the 330 wells drilled in Mexico in 1955 brought the number of wells completed during 1956 to 402. The average depth per well was 5,407 ft. for a total footage of 2,173,808 ft. One hundred thirteen wells were exploratory holes (65 new-field wildcats). New reserves were added through the discovery of 20 new oil and/or gas fields, 19 new pools, and 12 extensions to previously known fields. The total number of successful wells was 267 (66.4%). Exploratory tests were 45% successful (51 wells).

The bulk of the exploratory effort was concentrated in the known petroliferous coastal plain provinces of the Gulf of Mexico. Two more stratigraphic tests were drilled in the Peninsula of Baja California, where gravity and seismic surveys have been extended into the states of Coahuila and Chihuahua in northern Mexico. Tertiary gas was produced in the Veracruz embayment and new important Jurassic production was established near Tampico in the Panuco-Ebano district.

Crude oil and distillate production for 1956 was 94,096,355 bbls., an increase of 2,726,230 bbls. over the production for the previous year. Total gas production was 124,776,880 mcf.

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