The discovery well of the Novinger pool was drilled in the latter part of November, 1950, on the T. B. Novinger lease, Sec. 26, T. 33 S., R. 30 W., Meade County, Kansas. At the present time 32 wells have been drilled, of which 27 produce from the Marmaton, 3 from the Morrow, 1 from the Chester, and 1 gas well from the Atoka. Initial potentials on the wells range from 2,204 to 49 barrels of oil per day. The average monthly production of the field is 42,000 barrels of oil. Total accumulative production to the first of August, 1953, is approximately 475,000 barrels of oil. Most of the oil produced is from a porous limestone of Marmaton age. This reservoir is an elongate reef-like body with a north-south trend. Lithologically, it is a relatively coarse textured oolitic limest ne with a large percentage of organic debris. The northern limits of the field have been delimited by three wells that cored dense shaly limestone in the stratigraphic interval represented by the Novinger pay on the south. The southern limits of the field are not known. Pay from the Atoka is from a relatively tight shaly sandstone of erratic distribution that apparently marks the Morrow-Atoka unconformity. A small amount of gas has been found in the Atoka. Morrow production is from lenticular sands that occur at various levels throughout the Morrow interval. Although 12 wells have been drilled through the Morrow, only 3 in the north end of the pool have had sufficiently well developed sands to be commercial. These 3 are all oil productive with fairly high gas-oil ratios. Chester producti n is from porosity developed in coarsely-crystalline crinoidal limestone at or near the Pennsylvanian-Mississippian boundary. Porosity appears to be secondary and was probably developed by weathering of the Chester limestone during the post-Mississippian-pre-Pennsylvanian erosional interval. Only one well is now producing from the Chester, but another was gauged at 14,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day with a spray of oil before it was completed higher in the hole as a Marmaton producer. No wells have been drilled through the Mississippian.

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