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The 1922 discovery of the Smackover oil field, after which the Smackover Formation is named, resulted in a sizeable oil boom in southern Arkansas. [ citation needed ] In addition to being a petroleum reservoir, as of 2015, the brine from the Smackover Formation is the only source of commercial bromine in the United States.
The Graves sand was exploited for oil at a depth of 2,501 feet (762 m) in January 1925. On May 8, 1936, oil was discovered in the Jurassic Smackover Formation limestone at a depth of 4,800 feet (1,500 m) by the Phillips Petroleum Company. Oil and gas were produced from the porous Reynolds oolite at a depth of 4,897 feet (1,493 m). [5]
Oil Trough is a town in Independence County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 260 at the 2010 census . [ 3 ] The town is believed to have acquired its name in the early 19th century from a trough used to render bear fat, which was sold to customers in New Orleans .
The search for oil was then directed north towards the small town of Smackover, near the Ouachita River fault line. On July 29, 1922, the Richardson Number 1 well on the land of Charles Richardson, four miles north of Smackover erupted with new-found oil. Within a year of this discovery, the sleepy town of 100 had boomed to over 25,000. [3]
The first commercially successful oil well drilled in the area was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892. [1] The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 at Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1897, Spindletop at Beaumont, Texas in 1901, and Oklahoma's Ida Glenn No. 1 at the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the ...
Map of the Arkoma Basin. The Arkoma Basin is a peripheral foreland basin that extends from central west Arkansas to south eastern Oklahoma. The basin lies in between the Ozark Uplift and Oklahoma Platform to the north and Ouachita Mountains to the south and with an area of approximately 33,800 mi 2.
Ohio oil production peaked in 1896 at 24 million barrels, but Ohio continued as the leading oil state until 1902, when that title was taken by Oklahoma. [4] The Trenton limestone produced more than 380 million barrels of oil and 2 trillion cubic feet of gas, peaking in 1896 at 23.9 million barrels of oil.
Pure Oil Company was a major American petroleum company founded in 1914. History. Early history Postcard showing a Pure Oil station and a lunch counter, ca. 1930-1945