ABSTRACT
The Payton pool is one of a number of pools which produce oil and gas from sandstone on the west side of the Central Basin platform of the West Texas Permian basin. The pool was discovered in 1937 by a well located to test a probable subsurface structure in the zone of favorable sand development in the Yates sand. Oil and gas are produced from discontinuous sand beds in 240 feet of Yates sand section. An anticline controls presence of gas or oil, but lateral gradation eastward from sand into sandy shale and anhydritic sand controls production. The pool covers 1,325 acres on which 134 producing wells have been drilled. Cumulative production to September 1, 1940, was 1,700,000 barrels, or 1,280 barrels per acre.
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