The area studied is in northeast Sedgwick County, eastern Harvey County, and the west edge of Butler County, Kansas. Geologically this area lies in the northeast part of the Sedgwick Basin. The name "Burgess" is an Oklahoma term and was used as early as 1921 to denote a sand body in the upper part of the Mississippian. The sand is actually an unconformity sand lying just above the Mississippian and just below the very thin Cherokee section of the Pennsylvanian.

The lithology of the Burgess zone is that of a conglomerate section, consisting of varigated shales above and below the sand. The sand itself is very poorly sorted, angular, clear to frosted, pitted quartz sand. It may drill several feet per minute and appear in rotary cuttings as loose, uncemented sand. In such cases it carries little or no shows of oil except gilsonitic or dead staining in the pits of the coarse grains. Where it is cemented the cementing material is usually calcareous in nature.

A study of the Oil Pools from which this sand produces indicates that accumulation of sand on broad, low, flat Mississippian noses with up-dip facies changes or reversal is largely responsible for trapping the oil. Recoveries in the older pools average about 2,500 barrels per acre. In a reservoir where the sand is as permeable as the Burgess twenty acre spacing or possibly greater is sufficient to drain the reservoir. This means about 45,000 barrels of oil net to the working interest. Wells cost no more than $25,000.00.

Detailed subsurface investigations using the tools of sample examination, electric log correlation and interpretation, drilling time logs, and subsurface maps seem to suffice in finding accumulations of Burgess oil. In view of the expected recoveries versus cost of exploring, economics seem to favor working this area.

F. W. MORGAN

Born in Rogers, Texas and attended Rogers Public Schools through high school. He then went to the University of Texas and graduated in 1939 with a Bachelor's Degree in Geology. The next school year was spent in El Paso, Texas as Laboratory Instructor in Geology. The year 1941 was spent in El Dorado, Kansas as Geology instructor at the El Dorado Junior College. In 1942 he moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma as ground school instructor in the Darr School of Aeronautics, training Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Corps pilots.

In 1944 he started active service in the Army Air Corps. After discharge in 1946 he took a summer course at the

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University of Kansas at Canon City, Colorado. In August of that year he went to work for Stanolind Oil and Gas Company (now Pan American) in Wichita, Kansas. In February 1951 he went to work for the Lario Oil and Gas Company, Wichita, Kansas. In September 1951 he formed the Geological Consulting Firm of Morgan & Torline, Geologists, with M. Eugene Torline, co-author of this paper. He is still a partner in this organization. In 1953 he helped incorporate the Acme Oil Corporation. Acme is engaged in exploring for, drilling for, and producing crude oil and gas. He has served as president of Acme since its formation.

At present he resides in Wichita, Kansas and continues as partner in Morgan & Torline and as president of Acme. He was a member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, geological fraternity in college and helped establish a new chapter at the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy (now Texas Western) when at El Paso. He is a member of the Kansas Geological Society and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is married and has one son.

M. EUGENE TORLINE

Born in Wichita, Kansas and attended Parochial Schools through high school. Entered the service in 1944, served on a tanker in the Pacific, and was discharged in 1946. Entered University of Wichita in 1946, attended University of Colorado during the summer of 1949 and graduated from the University of Wichita with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology in 1950. While attending high school and college he worked for Stanolind Oil and Gas Company (now Pan-American).

In May, 1951, he opened an office as a Consulting Geologist and Lease Broker and in September, 1951 formed the Geological Consulting Firm of Morgan & Torline, Geologists, with F. W. Morgan. In 1953 he helped incorporate Acme Oil Corporation. He is still a partner in Morgan & Torline, Geologists and serves as Vice President and Treasurer of Acme Oil Corporation.

Mr. Torline resides in Wichita with his wife, Cecilia. He has been Editor of the Kansas Geological Society Bulletin since 1953 and is a member of this organization as well as the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

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