The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-21
Year 1920 Banner One for
the GeOiOgicOi Profession

Probably tho greatest advance Of
any division of the Oh business dur
| my the last year was achieved by
the geological end OF the game.
Among the prominent members of
the profession In Tulsa attending tho
convention /. 6. white is probably
one ~ thc most interesting. rs he IN
called tho father of petroleum gcol-
ogy.' and has sccn the rise of the
geological protehsion In Importance
In the production of petroleum from
It's very beginning According to
the old timers, The first advances
made by guOlogista in the petroleum
world weru met by rcbuffa and de
risiou and II has only been In late
years that the geological divisions
nave been accepted as an importnn.
addition in finding new oil fields,
and In working out the best methods
FOR extracting the complete content
OF the petroleum from the oil sands
by scientific principles. as well as
eliminating the danger 10 "A great
extent. 10 tho big fields from tho
cucrUach hmchi uf suit water. i
Elmer Thomas, consulting geOlogist
Of Chicago. Illinois, has worked out
n compilation OF the different fields
discovered by the gpologiHts In 1920
In an the fields Of the United states.
which is certainly n credit to tha.
division Of the industry and goes to
show that they nave been right
there when n comes TO getting the
goods
In Oklahoma. whore there IL prob
ably the largest ana best corps OF
gcolOgists of any state In the union-
there was the largest number OF new
pools brought In due to the efforts
of tho geological profession. In
Carter county there wcrO the two
pools OF Hewitt and Graham located
In townships 4s-2w and 2s-2w re-
spectlvcly; In Comauche county there
is the pool east OF Lawton In soc
ton 32-2n-gw, which was discovered
by the Gladys Belle OIL company; IN
Creek county the pool located AROUND
section 17-16-S. which was dis
covered 10y tho Texolcan OIL COM
pauy; In Garvin county the Robber-
son gas field Is attributed to .the
work OF the geologists: In Okfuskes
county the pool In section 6-l0-12,
discovered by the Atlantic Product
ing company. the Dcaner, pool in
section l6-1l-ll, discovered by the
Mutual oil company, tho pool I'm
section 30-12-l1, which was dis
covered by tho Atlantic Producing
company, and the pool In section
Dcnncr and others; In Okmulgee
county there were four pools to tho
goologists' credit. being the one To-
Gated In section 2l-l3-1l, discovered
by tho Nuco OH and Gas company,
the Simons extension OF the Beggs
pool located In section 1i-14-1f, dis
| covered by the Niverland OH COM
pany, the pbol In section 2S-13-l3
discovered by Copeland and wilder
and tlk pool In section 1881
discovered by the Okmulgec Allied
were five pools located In sections
! 36-27-5. discovered by Marland, O.
| 26-6. discovered by the Carter OF
company. 26-23-7, discovered by the
| Gilliland OIL company, In township
| 22.9 discovered by the Amcrada
and the Boston pool In section l-2l-
| Z, discovered by the GYPSY OH COM
| pany; In Pnwnee county thore were
| four new pools to the credit OF tho
geologlsts, being tho keystone pool
In section 3120-9, discovered by the
oil Issues company, the MaramaC
, pool I'm section 4-20-6, discovered by
| the Mnramac oil company, the
South Maramac pool In section 16-
| 20-6, discovered by the Pierce on
| corporation, the Telton rool In sec
| tion 13-20-7. discovered by l.. L.
| Hutchinson, and the North Jennings
pool located in section 3i-20-7. In
| Payne county the March, pool M
section 2g-1S-5, discovered by the
| March oil company was credited TO
/ the profession. Near Tulsa the Ok
lahoma Central pool. located in sec
| tion 1S-i9-l0. Is attributed TO tho
gcologists, and In stephens county
the Famous Empire pool. discovered
| by the Empire Gas and Fuel COM
! pany Is the result OF geologic work,
II may be said. however, that the
expectations Tor the year 1921 do
not run as high ms the results OF
| 1920, ns good part OF the produc-
tive country IL drilled over, and as
| wildcat operations, for the most
part, have been eliminated, due to
the existing condition, Anyway, the
gcologists will be expected to be on
the job strong. and will be collecting
| data to put into uso when the oil
business resumes It's normal scale,
also they will no doubt bring 10
liiAt many advantageous methods
in the extracting OF oil In the
present pools. and II Is expected they
viii work out many theories regard
ing the existence OF oil sands be-
meath the producing depth already
penetrated,