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Volume: 30 (1946)

Issue: 6. (June)

First Page: 925

Last Page: 929

Title: Developments in Texas Panhandle in 1945

Author(s): Porter A. Montgomery, Jr. (2), Le Roy Fugitt (2)

Abstract:

The Panhandle district includes the twenty-six northwestern counties in Texas. Ten of these counties produce oil or gas.

The major structural features include the Amarillo uplift, the Anadarko basin, the Permian basin, the Bravo dome, the Stratford dome, the Dalhart basin, and the Bush dome.

There was a decided increase in drilling operations for 1945 as compared with 1944. In all, 516 wells were completed in 1945; 317 of these were gas wells, 159 were oil wells, and 40 were dry and abandoned. Most of the activity was concentrated on developing the gas acreage in southeastern Hartley, western Moore, Sherman, and northwest Hansford counties.

No new fields or producing formations have been discovered. However, the Phillips Petroleum Company's Shirk No. 1, located northeast of the Stratford dome had a showing of oil in a lower Pennsylvanian sand.

In 1945 the Texas Panhandle produced more than 31 million barrels of oil from 6034 wells. This is a decline of approximately 3 million barrels from the 1944 production. The cumulative production in the area to the end of 1945 is 535 million barrels.

The leasing during 1945 falls into two categories, one a consolidation of gas acreage, and the other a lease play in the Anadarko basin.

The consolidation of leases into units of 640 acres was confined to Moore, Sherman, and Hansford counties.

Extensive geophysical work in the Anadarko basin has resulted in a large amount of leasing. This lease play begins in the southwest part of Lipscomb County and extends in a northwest direction across Ochiltree County and into the Oklahoma Panhandle. This leasing is based on the possibility of producing oil and gas from zones of pre-Permian age. The Anadarko basin play added more than ½ million acres to the leases held in 1945.

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