Drilling activity in South Arkansas and North Louisiana during the year 1944 showed a 10 per cent decrease as compared with 1943. This decrease was occasioned mostly because of deeper drilling in the area and the development of gas and gas distillate fields. Of the 126 wells drilled as wildcats, 17 discoveries were made classified as follows: 10 new fields, 2 extensions to old fields, and 5 new producing formations in old fields. During 1943 a total of 141 wells were drilled as wildcats, resulting in 12 discoveries. Just what effect these new discoveries will have on the future reserve picture of the area can not be foretold at this time. The total production for the area was about 312 per cent less than in 1943. Geophysics led again this year as the chief exploratory method in discovering new fields.

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