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Volume: 52 (1968)

Issue: 3. (March)

First Page: 537

Last Page: 538

Title: Burbank Field, Oklahoma--a Giant Grows: ABSTRACT

Author(s): B. C. Largent

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

The Burbank field of Osage and Kay Counties, Oklahoma, a "giant" oil field by any standard, has dominated oil activity in northeastern Oklahoma since its discovery in the 1920s.

The major producing formation in the field is the Burbank Sandstone which is in the Desmoinesian Cherokee Shale of Middle Pennsylvanian age. Several lenticular and semiblanket sandstone bodies comprise

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the Burbank Sandstone whose maximum aggregate thickness is about 70 ft. The Burbank Sandstone was deposited on a tectonically stable shelf bordering the Arkoma basin on the south; evidence suggests that the sand was deposited in a shallow marine environment.

The productive limits of the Burbank field are controlled by an updip facies change from sandstone to shale toward the east and a tilted oil-water contact on the downdip margin toward the west. These conditions have combined to form a stratigraphic trap of about 50,000 acres, covering all or parts of 12 townships. At present, more than 1,600 wells are producing approximately 26,000 bbl of oil per day, of which 76 percent is by waterflood. Cumulative production from the Burbank field is in excess of 500,000,000 bbl of oil.

During the past 40 yr recurring cycles of field extensions and development followed by periods of relative inactivity have enlarged the Burbank field to what appears to be its complete areal extent. Intensive and imaginative geological investigation of more recently discovered stratigraphic-trap accumulations of oil and gas could reveal additional productive acreage that will put these fields in the "giant" category.

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