Drilling in the Eastern Interior basin decreased 15 per cent and production decreased 212 per cent in 1945. The removal of well-spacing restrictions by the Federal Government about September 1 did not result in any noticeable increase in drilling. There was little deep testing in 1945, and nearly all of the new wells produced from sandstones and limestones of the Mississippian system.

Production in Kentucky reached a new high of slightly more than 10 million barrels.

Drilling is expected to continue in 1946 at nearly the same rate as in 1945, with possibly an increase in wildcat testing due to the expiration of a large acreage of 10-year leases in the Illinois basin.

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