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Volume: 36 (1952)

Issue: 8. (August)

First Page: 1672

Last Page: 1672

Title: Oil Development and Possibilities of Springer Sandstones: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Robert J. Beams

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

The Springer sandstones of the Ardmore and Anadarko basins have attained in recent years a prominence previously held only by the Wilcox sands in the oil industry of Oklahoma. This paper is given in recognition of this current interest, and is intended as a progress report on those aspects of the Springer which are pertinent to oil exploration.

The Springer formation is composed of fine grained sandstones and dark gray to black fissile shales in the Morrowan series; overlain by the lower Dornick Hills formation and underlain by the Mississippian Caney formation.

The present subsurface distribution of the Springer was determined by erosion which took place during the Wichita orogeny and the Arbuckle orogeny. The truncated boundaries of the formation, as shown, represents the outcrop pattern of these strata previous to the deposition of younger Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Cretaceous beds. The Springer formation or its stratigraphic equivalent is present in the Ardmore, Anadarko, and McAlester basins and the Ouachita Mountains.

As shown by local conditions in typical fields, the Springer sandstones are oil productive from both anticlinal and stratigraphic traps and often associated with complex systems of faults and tightly folded beds.

A brief discussion of the reservoir characteristics including ultimate oil recoveries reveals the motivating force for the intensive search for Springer oil.

Geological comparison of oil producing fields with unexplored areas indicates that vast oil accumulations are undiscovered. These Springer sandstone potentialities are of a sufficient magnitude to insure Oklahoma of much additional exploration and production activities for many years.

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