The Olympic oil pool is in Hughes and Okfuskee counties, Oklahoma, about 50 miles southeast of the center of the state.

Oil in the Olympic sand was discovered in January, 1935, by the Manahan Oil Company's Dixon-A No. 1 in the northeast corner of the SW. 1/4, NW. 1/4 of Sec. 12, T. 9 N., R. 8 E. Oil was discovered here in the Cromwell sand, however, in July, 1934, by the Olympic Oil Company's McCaslin No. 1 in the southeast corner of the NW. 1/4, NW. 1/4 of Sec. 12, T. 9 N., R. 8 E.

The oil-bearing Olympic sand is a lens; it has a plane base and a convex top. The sand body is approximately 6 1/2 miles long and ranges from 1/2 to 1 1/4 miles wide; it lies at depths ranging from 1,750 to 1,950 feet.

The oil pool in the Olympic sand covers an area of 3,500 acres; 349 wells have been drilled and 17 producers have been abandoned. A total of 10,794,694 barrels of oil had been recovered from the pool by January 1, 1941.

Three new wells have been drilled and completed in 1938 as gas-repressure wells and three oil wells have been converted into gas-repressure wells. Gas is being injected into the oil sand in each of these wells at the rate of 250,000 cubic feet per day.