Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 26
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oil wells, atwrt 65 drilling and derricks for many miles. Today they are testing out atwr 240,000 barrels per day, though they have taken out as much as 90,000 barrels. The peak has been up to about 190,000 b, per day. The oil is Heavil at wrt 37 deg Baume and decides with a paraffine base. The first well yielded 13,000 barrels though reported at 30,000. Experimental oil men say it is the finest of the large fields with large wells ever hoped in America. Tshs estimates 90 million barrels of oil available. The oil is at the base of the duffer Cre. Taceus in the Dorroline sandstone. The sand is succeeding fine like that of Miami level Florida. Overlying this sand is the Eagle Ford Heavil shale and it is justly the source of the oil. Salt water is present under great pressure. The Drodthir is reached at atwrt 3000 feet.