... line and on the Continental Shelf. The most important structural features are salt domes. Piercement-type domes are the most pronounced features in the area; however, deep-seated domes have produced more oil. Anticlinal fields associated with normal faults are numerous, but are of secondary...

... and Yegua formations. Discoveries in 1952 were numerous and important collectively, but no single discovery found major reserves. South Hampton, Hardin County, was the most outstanding of 37 new-field discoveries. Salt domes accounted for one-third of the district’s 172 new-pay and extension discoveries...

... Texas to Alabama. The economic importance of these domes is attested by the many oil fields that tap the structural traps produced by the domes. Many persons have speculated that salt underlies western Florida, but, to the writer’s knowledge, no one has assembled the evidence (see King, 1950 , 1961...

...). 8 Cumberland saddle. W. A. Ver Wiebe, Oil Fields in the United States , p. 103. 7 C. W. Wilson, Jr., “Probable Connection of the Nashville and Ozark Domes by a Complementary Arch,” Jour. Geol. , Vol. 47 (1939), Fig. 2 , p. 593, and p. 591. 6 A. W. Giles, “Major Structural...

... . Sawtelle , George , 1926 , “ The Batson Oil Field, Hardin County, Texas ,” Geology of Salt Dome Oil Fields, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. , pp. 524 – 29 . 4 Paul Weaver, private communication, 1954. Weaver also said “the term ‘rim syncline’ as used herein, should apply down to the depth...

..., are within reach of the drill. Large shallow domes would require the migration of larger volumes of salt; hence, they would have the largest synclines and best developed peripheral faults. Most of these domes have not been profitable oil fields. Rim synclines on the domes located in the southern...

... Oil Corporation’s Fee No. 4-B, was completed in the Frio at 8,059 feet for 168 barrels of oil per day. Blue Ridge is a typical shallow salt dome, with radial faults and lenticular sands providing traps. There were 22 completions in the field, slightly less than the 1953 total. A number of salt...

... field, Hardin County, confirmed this field’s rating as the most important 1949 discovery. During 1950, 78 producing wells were completed. The producing sands consist of 4 oil and 2 gas reservoirs in the Yegua and 2 oil pays in the Cook Mountain. Other Yegua pays remain to be exploited. Although...

... for the first time ( Table 1 ). Table 1. Ten Most Actively Drilled Fields Field County Oil Gas Dry Total Sour Lake Hardin 46 0 4 50 Saratoga Hardin 27 0 8 35 Hoskins Mound Brazoria 16 0 13 29 Esperson Liberty 14 0 10 24 Brenham Austin 15 0 2...

...Theodore A. Link 5 Geology of Salt Dome Oil Fields, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. (1926), p. 297. In a recent article entitled, “New Exploration Possibilities on Piercement-Type Salt Domes Established by Thrust Fault at Boling Salt Dome, Wharton County, Texas,” by Michel T. Halbouty...

... and southwest by dry holes and is not expected to cover a large area. Although only one well was completed in the Olive field of Hardin County, it deserves mention because it is the deepest relatively low-ratio oil well to be completed in the Wilcox in this district. Completion was in an 18-foot sand...

... point at Sweet Lake field. The Calcasieu Lake basin is surrounded by large masses of piercement salt represented by the Hackberry, Big Lake, Sweet Lake, and Creole structures. Near the center of the basin is the Calcasieu Lake dome, notorious for its failure to yield commercial oil or gas. I suggest...

... edge ( Edwards, 2000 ). The South Liberty oil field lies on the flanks of the South Liberty salt dome in Liberty County, Texas, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Houston, Texas. It was discovered in 1901, and commercial production started in 1925 ( Halbouty and Hardin, 1951 ). The South Liberty dome...

... sections of the Mount Carmel-New Harmony and Omaha dome areas. © 1948 American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved 1948 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Most of the oil produced during the first era of exploitation in Illinois came from fields related to the La...

... in exploratory drilling on shore, while exploratory drilling offshore showed a lesser decline over 1958. The total number of both exploratory and field development wells drilled was slightly greater than in 1958. Oil production again declined in 1959. The Texas state-wide number of producing days in 1959 dropped...

..., and underlies most of the Gulf coast basin. North of the area of contemporaneous faults ( Fig. 2 ), the Louann forms elongated, low-relief anticlines beneath the Smackover fields of southern Arkansas ( Spencer and Peters, 1948 ; Vestal, 1950 ), whereas on the south it forms the salt swells and domes...

... Oil Field, Hardin County, Texas,” Geology of Salt Dome Oil Fields (Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 1926), pp. 500-23. 2 George Sawtelle, “The Batson Oil Field, Hardin County, Texas,” Geology of Salt Dome Oil Fields (Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 1926), pp. 524-29. 3 Objection is raised...

.... , v. 40 , no. 1 , p. 1 – 16 . Hamner , E. J. , 1939 , Amelia oil field, Jefferson County, Texas : Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull. , v. 23 , no. 11 , p. 1635 – 1665 . Hardin , F. R. , and G. C. Hardin Jr. , 1961 , Contemporaneous normal faults of Gulf Coast...

.... The discovery well is producing from the Wilcox at 8,260 feet. Day field , Madison County, is an interior salt dome discovered in 1947. Oil was first discovered this year. Production is from the Wilcox at 1,903 feet. Production is small so far and of minor importance. FIG. 1 UPPER GULF COAST...

... drilled fields accounted for 45% of the wells; all but Buccaneer field are salt domes ( Table V ). TABLE I. D rilling S ummary , T exas U pper G ulf C oast , 1967   Oil Dry Gas Gas Cond. Unknown Total Dry Holes Success Explor. wild-cats (NF) 7 2 5 3 17 140...