Payne County Research Articles

The Mosses of Payne County, Oklahoma

The Mosses of Payne County, Oklahoma

Faulting, Accumulation, and Fluid Distribution in Ramsey Pool, Payne County, Oklahoma

The study of faulting is playing an increasing role in the search for oil. The Ramsey oil pool, in north-central Oklahoma, offers evidence on the effect of faulting on the migration of oil, both horizontal and vertical. It also affords evidence on the time of migration relative to the stages of structural growth. The Ramsey pool, developed and operated principally by one company, offers a long production history, almost complete unit control, good well samples of the formations, and a reasonably complete record of the performance of individual wells. The investigation proceeded through the building of structural maps on key formations, a close study of the thickness of key beds and the intervals between them, and a comparative study of the performance of individual wells and of the position of oil-water contacts during the productive history of the pool. The study shows that (1) oil accumulated during a long period of structural growth; (2) vertical migration occurred along the fault and continued to the present; (3) migration across the fault reached different degrees of perfection in different reservoirs; and (4) fault movements occurred in three stages, the first being dominantly horizontal and the others vertical. So far as is known to the writer this is the first pool study of its kind that has been made. The conclusions reached should have considerable application throughout north-central Oklahoma, as the structural history of that area was controlled by regional forces operating on geologic formations of similar character. In other areas the results can only be suggestive of similar studies that might well be made.

Three Consultants A-Learning Go

teaching by the group discussion method very effective. So we concluded that taking part in group learning and observing group leadership might encourage the nurses to take advantage of more opportunities for group teaching. After talking it over with the director of the division of nursing, we organized a pilot project to develop methods of teaching nurses how to lead group discussion. Both hospital and public health nurses in Payne County were interested and joined us in planning the project. In selecting the group to be taught in this pilot project, we had to take two factors into account. The group should include persons in whom both hospital and public health nurses were vitally interested, and they should be persons who were eager to learn. Young couples expecting their first babies seemed to fill both of these qualifications. Accordingly, we decided to invite all such young couples in the area to take part in parents' classes. Then we worked out the conference objectives and sponsors' responsibilities. The primary objective, we decided, was to develop methods of teaching hospital and public health nurses how to lead group discussions. However, at the same time, we should be able to determine some of the needs of prospective parents. The hospital nurses took the responsibility for finding a meeting place and equipment. The public health

Effects of Sewage and of a Headwaters Impoundment on the Fishes of Stillwater Creek in Payne County, Oklahoma

The relative abundance of fishes in Stillwater Creek and principal tributaries, Payne and Noble Counties, Oklahoma, was studied in 1938 (Moore and Mizelle, 1939). During this 20-station survey the mainstream and tributaries above the city of Stillwater consisted of intermittent pools. Below Stillwater a slight flow was maintained by city sewage outlets. At that time something less than 750,000 gallons of processed sewage entered the stream daily. The quantity and quality of this influx did not markedly influence the stream's turbidity or its abundance of fishes. The entire stream was, and undoubtedly had long been, extremely muddy. Its water level fluctuated widely, floods followed by reduction to intermittent pools occurring almost annually.

An Analysis of Waterfowl Hunting at Lake Carl Blackwell, Payne County, Oklahoma, for 1940

An Analysis of Waterfowl Hunting at Lake Carl Blackwell, Payne County, Oklahoma, for 1940

Ramsey Oil Pool, Payne County, Oklahoma

The Ramsey oil pool, located 6 miles southwest of Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma, was discovered in 1938. Interesting surface faulting and core-drill data instigated geophysical prospecting in this area and led to the discovery of the pool. The subsurface structure is a flat-topped, steeply dipping, almost circular, faulted dome with 130 feet of pre-Pennsylvanian truncation. The producing formation, the First Wilcox sand, is a member of the Simpson group of Ordovician age, and has a vertical producing range of 189 feet. The pool has a proved area of 390 acres and has produced 2,703,013 barrels of oil to June 1,1940, which gives an average of 6,931 barrels per proved acre. The present daily allowable is 3,800 barrels from 38 producing wells. The Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation operates 36 wells, the only other operator being the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company with two wells.

Developments in Oklahoma During 1938

The year 1938 marked another twelve months' period during which the volume of newly discovered petroleum reserves in Oklahoma failed by a substantial margin to offset withdrawals. Total production of oil for the state during 1938 was approximately 170,000,000 barrels, a decrease of 23 per cent from the total for the preceding year. There were approximately 2,000 wells completed during the year, representing also a decrease of 30-35 per cent from the total well completions for 1937. The seismograph continued to be the chief exploratory method employed in the search for new structures, but there was a 20 per cent reduction in the average number of crews as compared with the preceding year. The majority of these crews were engaged in closer detail work in areas already fairly intensively explored. There was very little decrease in wildcat drilling operations. Of the 2,000 well completions 220, or 11 per cent, might be classified as exploratory wells. By far the greater number of these were located adjacent to producing pools in the central part of the state. As a result of the drilling of these 220 wildcat wells, 42 new producing areas were discovered. Of this total 16 might be considered as extensions to known pools and 26 as new pools. Thirty-nine of the discovery wells produced oil and 3 produced gas. Pennsylvanian sediments accounted for the production in 19 of the discoveries. Siluro-Devonian in 4 wells, and Ordovician in 19 wells. It is unfortunate that by far the greater number of the discoveries reveal as yet only relatively unimportant reserves. The outstanding discoveries as indicated by development to date were the Ramsey pool, in Payne County, and the Alma Oil Company extension to the St. Louis pool, in Pottawatomie County. Developments subsequent to discovery around outlying wildcats at Noble, in Cleveland County, and at Hillsdale and Waukomis, in Garfield County, have been disappointing. Drilling activities in the older pools of the state were largely routine, with the Seminole-St. Louis areas furnishing the greatest number of completions. The Oklahoma City pool continued to lead the state in output, with an annual production during 1938 of 38,796,000 barrels. The Fitts pool with 16,655,000 barrels rank d second.