Bulletin of the United States Geological SurveyThe Survey., 1906 |
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Página 145 - The serial publications of the United States Geological Survey consist of (1) Annual Reports, (2) Monographs, (3) Professional Papers, (4) Bulletins, (5) Mineral Resources, (6) Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers, (7) Topographic Atlas of United States — folios and separate sheets thereof, (8) Geologic Atlas of the United States — folios thereof.
Página 113 - ... are restricted by certain well-defined conditions to a relatively small portion of the earth's surface. In many regions it is comparatively easy for the geologist, by an examination of surface conditions, to state definitely and with certainty that no oil in commercial quantities will be found. In other large regions he can state that oil may be found, and can point out in some cases the most favorable localities, but he can not predict the actual occurrence of an oil pool in advance of drilling.
Página 119 - The oil and salt pockets of the Texas Coastal Plain are probably not indigenous to the strata in which they are found, but are the resultant products of columns of hot saline waters which have ascended, under hydrostatic pressure, at points along lines of structural weakness, through thousands of feet of shale, sand, and marine littoral sediments of the Coastal Plain section, through which oil and sand are disseminated in more or less minute quantities.
Página 119 - ... they are found, but are the resultant products of columns of hot saline waters which have ascended, under hydrostatic pressure, at points along lines of structural weakness, through thousands of feet of shale, sand, and marine littoral sediments of the Coastal Plain section, through which oil and sand are disseminated in more or less minute quantities. The oil, with sulphur, may have been floated upward on these waters, and the salt and dolomite may have been crystallized from the saturated solution.
Página 113 - ... an impervious cap rock which will prevent its escape. Conditions which favor its accumulation but are not always essential are (4) gentle undulations of the strata forming anticlinal arches or domes, (5) the complete saturation of the rocks with water and its slow circulation under hydrostatic head or convection due to differences of temperature. THE OIL SUPPLY. This is of course the first and most essential condition, for without it no accumulation could cake place however favorable other conditions...
Página 134 - The lower end of the drill rod is supplied with one of several forms of bit, adapted to the kind of material being drilled. The material loosened by the rotating bit is carried upward to the surface by the water ascending on the outside. This ascending current of water keeps the hole clean and allows the drill rod to turn freely. It is essential that the flow of water should be continuous, and a drilling outfit is always supplied with two force pumps in order to avoid any danger of stopping the flow....
Página 119 - Many facts may be adduced in support of this hypothesis, although it must be admitted that it presents some serious difficulties. The mode of accumulation of the enormous masses of rock salt which occur in the Louisiana Salt Islands, in Damon Mound, in High Island, 'i Robert T.
Página 72 - The absorption or segregation of oil by means of certain d'atoms may also have contributed to the presence of oily substances in the ooze. When this mass becomes stirred up by wave action and diffuses itself through the water, rising even to the surface, the roughness of the water is affected in a manner comparable with the action of oil. The soundings in the so-called oil pond, according to chart No. 203 of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, vary from 4 to...
Página 38 - No. 1, on the extreme west side of the field, was sunk to a depth of 1 ,200 feet. A sputtering of gas, mud, and sand, with some oil, was noted at 900 feet. Similar indications were obtained in the Great Western well, in the Rodgers tract near the railroad. It was drilled to 1,500 feet in November of the same year. This well is also noteworthy for the large amount of hot water encountered (see p. 120). In March, 1902, the Great Western Company obtained a natural flow or gushing of oil in a well 683...
Página 72 - Survey, vary from 4 to 16 feet, while outside of the shallow water the depth increases to 20 and 25 feet, the 5-fathom curve lying about a mile to the south. The oil-pond area is then a sort of terrace, the bottom of which is soft black mud and ooze. At one place on the chart a rocky bottom is marked, but this lies outside the area known as "the pond" and is between the present pond and the site of the old pond.