ABSTRACT

A number of the past year's wildcats stimulated exploratory thinking and promoted further activity in some of the sparsely tested but potentially great oil and gas provinces of North America. Such wildcat developments include: (1) the completion of the first oil well in the Great Basin of Nevada; (2) the discovery of oil in Jurassic rocks of the East Texas embayment and the Mississippi Salt Basin; and (3) additional discoveries in such promising provinces as the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, the pre-Permian rocks of the South Permian basin and the northwestern portions of the Anadarko basin, the Williston basin, and the deeper portions of the Alberta geosyncline. Furthermore, the past year has seen a marked movement of wildcat activity into such little-known areas as the Raton basin, the McAlester-Arkansas Valley basin, and the Gulf Coast east of Louisiana.

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