... in the discovery of 81 producing reservoirs in 79 new areas, 3 of the discovery wells being dual completions. The most important of the new discoveries are the Doering Ranch field in Frio County, the Holly field in DeWitt County, the South Long Horn field in Duval County, the San Pablo field in Jim Hogg County...

.... Swickheimer 1–71 13,528 Wilcox 11 Zapata Humble O&R 1-Leonard Haynes 3–71 13,529 Wilcox 18 Kleberg Humble O&R 1-King Ranch- Novia Honda 8–71 14,644 Jackson ? 19 Kenedy Humble O&R 1-Kenedy K 6–71 14,047 Frio 20 Area 703 Occidental 1-St. Tr. 522-L 5–71 11,500 Lower...

.... Exxon has also reported a new Frio field, Candelaria East, which reported deep Frio pay at 15,728 ft in Kenedy County ( Table 2 , no. 1). Centura, Inc., reported a new-field discovery at Flour Bluff Southeast, where the 1 State Tract 46 carried an AOF of 11,300 MCFGD from the J-99 sand at 10,545 ft...

... with 4 completions. Rutherford-C. … K. Petroleum 1 Triple Bar Ranch was the deepest successful wildcat with a TD of 12,668 ft. Only one new-field wildcat was recorded for the Austin Chalk, that being Ramsey Petroleum Co. 1 H. M. Scholz with an IP of 133 BOPD. The Austin Chalk was the target...

... drilled a 16,500-ft duster, the 1 Handy ( Fig. 1 , No. 12) in Karnes County. As in 1972 the Wilcox Group drew most of the activity in the Eocene trend. Blair-Vreeland proved Wilcox gas production at Petrox field in Duval County with the completion of their 1 Duval County Ranch Corporation Section...

... Closure 2 Bee Shell 1 Raessler 4-12 16118 Sligo Pf:16025-035 OH: 16052-118 Sligo 4.1 - dry --- Pawnee Fault Closure 3 Duval Humble 13-K Duval Co. Ranch 1-27 6000 Wilcox 5346-50 Wilcox 163 flwg 34.9 Charamousca, W Faulted Dome 4 Jim Hogg Atlantic 5 Marrs McLean 5-22 15254...

.... The Patterson Ranch field, discovered by Sanchez O’Brien, produced from the upper Wilcox through perforations at 10,730 to 10,750 ft. ( Table 2 , no. 17). Miocene age sediments are the youngest exploratory targets in the south Texas onshore area. They produce over a wide geographic area in Districts 2 and 4...

... Patricio, Kleberg, Nueces, and Kenedy Counties, and accounted for 98 exploration wells in 1977. In Nueces County, Texaco opened 7 new pay zones between 3,645 ft (Oakville) and 6,805 ft (Frio) at Chapman Ranch field 15 mi south-southwest of Corpus Christi, and Pennzoil opened 7 new pays at Agua Dulce field...

.... test, and Sunray DX No. 1 W. A. Arledge, a 16,300-ft. test. Southeast, in Kinney County, drilling was under way on a rank wildcat, Jack Frost No. 1 Silver Lake Ranch, Inc., a proposed 15,000-ft. test. The location of another remote wildcat, the Double U Oil No. 1 Arno Knibbie in Comal County, had been...

.... 14 ). Fig. 14. —Wind-scoured, mud-flat indentation of coastal lagoon (Laguna Madre) here called “Saltillo Flats.” Saltillo Ranch and Lopena Island quadrangles, 5-foot contours; 55 miles south of Corpus Christi. Kenedy County dune field ( erg ) of ridge-type sand dunes (N. 45° W. axes) in knife...

... which have been only sparsely drilled. The second handicap is that salt water does not presently cover the region. Thus innumerable landmen are given a lease on employment, and executives are denied the glamor of bidding at the last chance, subaqueous ranch auction. Regardless, hosts of busy...

... field with the 1 C.O. Hagan Gas Unit ( Table 2 , no. 17) and in Jim Wells County, Sue field was discovered by the Texas Energy Exploration Inc. 1 H. J. Mosser ( Table 2 , no. 18). This was 1 of 4 new Frio fields found in that county. Exxon’s continued drilling program on its King Ranch leaseholdings...

... being successful. Of these successes, 4 are in Kleberg County, 3 in Starr, 2 in San Patricio, 1 in Kenedy, and 1 in Nueces County. A significant amount of activity is developing in Aransas County near the city of Rockport as several new Frio locations were initiated by E. L. Cox and Houston Oil...

... completed for the most significant flow rates. In Kenedy County, the same was true; the highest flow rate in the district was taken from a dual completion in two new Frio sands in Exxon’s Sarita field ( Table 2 , number 25). This well was measured at a combined open flow potential of 197,000 thousand cubic...

... the platform, but none are productive. An early but short-lived Sligo discovery was made at Lowe Ranch (2, Fig. 21 ). Pemex has found the Sligo shelf margin productive at Anahuac and Totonaca (3, Fig. 21 ), as have Shell at Pawnee (4, Fig. 21 ), General Crude at Southwest Kenedy (5, Fig. 21 ), and Hunt...

... at south on delta, most of “Willacy” (now Kenedy) County area at north on eolian plain. From 1:62,500 Tarida Ranch Quadrangle, Cameron and Willacy counties, Texas. U. S. Geological Survey, 1920, on non-photographic base. Scale reduced approximately 1 2 . ...

... logs or other written records of the wells were available, excepting for a very few wells. Some large ranches in the two counties have files of well logs, but these ranches were not included in the survey. An examination of a set of water-well logs for one ranch failed to show data for correlating...

... and Goodnight horizons of the Panhandle Tertiary of Texas, and it is our opinion that the age of the deposit from which your material was secured is Lower to Early Middle Pliocene. In Kleberg County, Lissie sand is exposed in the trenches dug for silos near the dairy barns on the King Ranch. Gravels...