The Raccoon Bend field, located about 60 miles northwest of Houston in the northwest corner of Austin County, Texas, was discovered in 1928. A paper3 published in 1933 described the structure as a broad faulted dome having an uplift on the Jackson formation in excess of 800 feet.
The early oil production was from two sands in the Jackson at depths of approximately 3,150 and 3,475 feet. In 1934, production was established from a sand in the upper Yegua formation at a depth of 4,100 feet. As of January 1, 1946, the cumulative production was about 15,500,000 barrels from...
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