Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-08-13
OIL PROSPECTS
AROUND MADILl,
OKLAHOMA, GOOD

WASHINGTON August l2-The Geo
log. cal Survey has just issued bulle'
tin on the oil and gas possibilities OF
the Mad Denison area Of Texas and
oklahoma.
OH secpages near Madill Marsh1ll
County. Okla. led a. the discovery and
development many years ago Of a small
pool east of that town. The oil Is re-
markable for its high gradc-about as
aaume, much lighter than the average
crude oil from the pools of Oklahoma
md il " Therefore more valuable. The
discovery naturally stimulated the
,,areh for "a in that region, and com
nanios have therefore made great cN'
penditurcs In persistently prospecting
parts Of Marshall and Bryan Counties.
Okla. q nd Fannin and Grayson
4 huutics. Texas These expenditures
Fave resulted In the discovery OF only
lone small gas pool. known as the Enos
IHcld In southern Marshall County. OK.
in.
Work done hy the United States Ge-
illogical Survey. Department OF the I'm.
tcrior revealed the presence OF three
- tinct anticlnal folds. which they
allied the Preston antioline, the Madil
uticline. and the Leonard Celeste
monoclinal nose. 4 short description OF
these features WAS given in the sur
yey's Professional Paper 100, published
n 1919. but detailed consideration Of
he conditions tina, may effect the pro
luction Of Oh had noi teen completed
At the time that paper was published
I'm report entitled The Structure %
he Mad Dcnisnn area. oklahoma an'
rcNlS. with Notes on oil and Gas DE
> eiovmout" by o. u. Hopkins. Sidncl
'oW,i. and H. * Robinson, recently
ubl she'd as the surveys Bulletin 736 \
he prospects for oil In the region at'
considered in detail.
. According to this bulletin the forna
lions most likely 10 yield oil !u the Ma
an Dcn.son are the Woodhine and IN
. Trinity sandstoncs of Cretaccous age
rhc Trinity is the oll and gaS bearing
ormation Of the Madill and Enos pools
However. there is apparently little pros
1cct that very productive wells will b
Obtained. Gas wells of a. maximum
daily volume og 5000 900 cubic feet O
oil wells of maximum initial pre-
1uction of 20 barrels are about IN
, best that may be- expected from III
Trinity and Woodhiuo formations %
he Preston anticlinc. Farther south
On the f.conard-Cclcstc monoClina
nose. il oil is found al all, il is not ur
: reasonable to hope tor wells of create
v III. .th NtifInfrlfI
y | inticline does not offer wrticularl
y adorable structural conditions Tor IN
y accumulation cf oil or gas.
n The possibility that oil or gas ma
n ~ obtained from the Carhunii,rous 70
n nat on below the Cretaoeous is indica
y "a by showings obtained in at least ~
" II the dccp wells that have been drili,
within few miles II the Madill G
p0d Thcs, deep Wells. however
spite sf their Showiugs nj oh and ga
loffcr little encouragement. for the WI
!. records do not Indicate that they pen
uatcL sands that void hold much %
Furthermore. the uil that was toui
was WIS Of extremely hight grade, !
v dicating that the forces which produce
v he Arhuckr Mountains. 10 the mort
ave acted also upon the deep seated q
bearing formations. destroying mu'
4 the oil az changing II 90 an inc
- trnctihl, residue ana leaving only
. remnant OF high gravity oil. This
y structV action Is thought Ia ha
= iccn intense IN the region southwest
'I the Madill and Enos fields and hen
j. hc most promising location FOR MAXI
n 4 deep ies, IN the aroa considered wot
6, De northwest Of the Madin pool. alo
ne anticliual axis