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The system has been explored and mapped by cave divers of the Jacob's Well Exploration Project and has been shown to consist of two principal conduits. One passageway measures approximately 4,500 feet (1,400 m) from the surface with a maximum depth of 137 feet (42 m), and a secondary one extends approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) in length from the point where it diverges from the main conduit.
Map of wells drilled in federal waters, Gulf of Mexico Christopher D. French and Christopher J. Schenk, (1997) Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Gulf of Mexico Region Archived 2017-05-05 at the Wayback Machine , US Geological Survey, Open-File Report OFR 97-470-L, PDF file, downloaded 24 January 2010.
The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres (57,000 ha) and parts of five counties, and having 30,340 historic and active oil wells, it is the second-largest oil field in the United States outside Alaska, and first in total volume of oil recovered since its discovery in 1930. [ 1 ]
Goose Creek Field, c. 1919. The Goose Creek Oil Field is a large oil field in Baytown, Texas, on Galveston Bay.Discovered in 1903, and reaching maximum production in 1918 after a series of spectacular gushers, it was one of the fields that contributed to the Texas Oil Boom of the early 20th century.
Map of the part of the region in Texas. Red is the core; pink represents the counties sometimes included in the region. Active Permian Basin pumpjack east of Andrews, TX Aerial view of oil fields of the Permian Basin in Ward County, TX. Due to its economic significance, the Permian Basin has also given its name to the geographic region in which ...
Location of the Spraberry Trend in Texas, showing major and nearby cities. Black lines are county boundaries. The Spraberry Trend (also known as the Spraberry Field, Spraberry Oil Field, and Spraberry Formation; sometimes erroneously written as Sprayberry) is a large oil field in the Permian Basin of West Texas, covering large parts of six counties, and having a total area of approximately ...
Historic railroad depot in Wells, Texas. The Shook's Bluff school, located near Shook's Bluff Cemetery, was operating in 1861. It was a crude, one-room, unpainted building. By 1920 people began to move away from the Neches River communities and closer to Wells, so the Shook's Bluff school was relocated two miles (3 km) west of Wells.
In 1926, a partnership consisting of Mid Kansas Oil Company (part of The Ohio Oil Company, the ancestor of Marathon Oil) and Transcontinental Oil, drilled an exploratory well, the Yates No. 1-A, on the Yates ranch into the San Andres formation approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) below ground surface, and hit a rich productive zone, producing a ...