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The first successful oil well in the Wewoka area, Betsy Foster Number One, began producing in March, 1923, leading to a boom in the population of oil field workers. Lake Wewoka was built as a reservoir to assure the city water supply, and an amusement park at the lake soon followed.
To group the fields together, the oil companies decided to come up with a name, and this was suggested by Paul Hedrick, oil editor of the Tulsa World. Early oil discoveries in the area were the Wewoka oil field and Cromwell oil field, both discovered in 1923. Then, on July 16, 1926, the Fixico No. 1 well reached the Wilcox sand at 4073 feet ...
Seminole competed to be the county seat of Seminole County, but lost to Wewoka. [7] The town of Seminole was incorporated as a city in December 1924. [8] Upon the discovery of a high-producing oil well in the city in 1926, Seminole transformed from a town of 854 to a boom town of 25,000 to 30,000 residents.
Adds approximately 36.4 million barrels of oil equivalent ("Mmboe") proved reserves that are 45% oil and 21% natural gas liquids ("NGLs"), of which 34% are proved developed producing
FTTN Expects Completion of Horizontal Oklahoma Well This Spring BRADENTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Domestic oil and gas company First Titan Corp. (OTCBB: FTTN) announced today that the company ...
Location of Seminole County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seminole County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Seminole County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Wewoka Lake , sometimes called Lake Wewoka , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a 500-surface-acre reservoir in Oklahoma , with 10 miles of shoreline. [ 3 ] It is located just northwest of the City of Wewoka, Oklahoma , the Seminole County seat.
Oil and gas producer Encana Corp halted work at a drill site in northwest Oklahoma following two earthquakes within a day in the same area, the state's oil and gas regulator said on Thursday. The ...