ABSTRACT

The Woodlawn Field is an oil and gas distillate producing deep seated salt dome field located in Jefferson Davis Parish, in Southwestern Louisiana. It was localized by torsion balance in 1934 and discovered in 1938 by The Union Sulphur Company. There have been 29 oil wells, 4 gas distillate wells and 11 dry holes drilled within the field limits. The deepest wells were drilled to the middle Oligocene. Above the base of the Miocene, the strata are sands, below; they are shale and sands. There are four producing sands, all in the middle Oligocene. The major structural feature is an assymmetrical northwest trending graben. The western border is a solitary fault while the eastern border fault has a major supplement. There is one fault transverse to the graben. Hydrocarbon accumulation is post faulting, resulting in some lower fault blocks being productive and other higher blocks being dry.

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Figure 1. Index map of Lake Charles District, showing location of Woodlawn field.

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