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Within the United States there are extensive little-tested areas believed to offer untold potentialities for the development of truly big oil and gas production. Outstanding in this respect are the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, and the southeastern states. But not to be overlooked are the apparently thoroughly prospected areas with "bottomless" sedimentary basins, and areas where complex faulting, numerous wedge-outs, or rapid lateral facies changes have slowed the accumulation of information needed for scientific wildcatting.
The year 1953 saw the completion of many wildcat discoveries in the United States which further broadened and brightened exploratory thinking. Some of these discoveries were in the wide-open spaces, others hugged or were within areas of big production; some were completed as significant producers, others made only small wells but afforded a positive indication of an area's potentialities.
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