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AAPG Special Volumes

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Pub. Id: A005 (1941)

First Page: 492

Last Page: 506

Book Title: SP 11: Stratigraphic Type Oil Fields

Article/Chapter: Music Mountain Oil Pool, McKean County, Pennsylvania

Subject Group: Field Studies

Spec. Pub. Type: Special Volume

Pub. Year: 1941

Author(s): Charles R. Fettke (2)

Abstract:

The Music Mountain pool, discovered in 1937, is located in Lafayette Township in the Bradford district of McKean County, Pennsylvania. The pool occupies a sand body of "shoestring" type, probably the remnants of an ancient off-shore bar, approximately 4 miles long and only 800-2,000 feet wide, with an average thickness of 35 feet.

The sand, named the Sliverville, occurs in the Canadaway group of the Upper Devonian series 240 feet above the Bradford Third sand. The productive area consists of 670 acres and coincides with the areal extent of the sand body which thins abruptly around the margins of the pool. The pool is located on the southeastern flank of the southwestward-plunging Bradford anticline. Its long axis makes an acute angle with the axis of the fold which causes the sand to rise gradually in a northeasterly direction. Salt water has not been reported in the sand and none of the marginal wells encountered edge water. A large volume of gas, in excess of that which could be held in solution at the prevailing pressure, was associated with the oil. The pool is notable for the large initial open-flow capaci ies of some of its wells. By the end of May, 1941, 2,778,250 barrels of oil had been produced.

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