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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Tom Gardner, Executive Director
DIVISION OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Jeremy A. Craft, Director
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Walter Schmidt, State Geologist
INFORMATION CIRCULAR NO. 106
1986 and 1987 FLORIDA PETROLEUM
PRODUCTION AND EXPLORATION
By
Jacqueline M. Lloyd
Published for the
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Tallahassee
1989
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DEPARTMENT
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BOB MARTINEZ
Governor
BOB BUTTERWORTH
Attorney General
GERALD LEWIS
State Comptroller
BETTY CASTOR
Commissioner of Education
DOYLE CONNER
Commissioner of Agriculture
TOM GARDNER
Executive Director
JIM SMITH
Secretary of State
TOM GALLAGHER
State Treasurer
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Florida Geological Survey
Tallahassee
August 1989
Governor Bob Martinez, Chairman
Florida Department of Natural Resources
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
Dear Governor Martinez:
The Florida Geological Survey, Division of Resource Management, Department of Natural Resources,
is publishing as its Information Circular 106, 1986 and 1987 Florida Petroleum Production and Exploration.
This report, prepared by Jacqueline M. Lloyd, discusses 1986 and 1987 oil and gas production and
exploration. It includes 1986 and 1987 production and exploration tables. It also includes cumulative
production statistics. This information is useful to the oil and gas industry and to the state in planning wise
development and conservation of Florida's oil and gas resources.
Respectfully yours,
Walter Schmidt, Ph.D., P.G.
State Geologist and Chief
Florida Geological Survey
Printed for the
Florida Geological Survey
Tallahassee
1989
ISSN 0085-0616
iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract .................................................................................. viii
Acknowledgem ents................................ ..................................... viii
Introduction .............................................................................. 1
1986 and 1987 Production.............................................................. 1
1986 and 1987 Onshore Drilling Activity............................................... 1
Field Development Drilling ......................................................... 1
O overview .............................................................. ............... 1
Northwest Florida Field Development Drilling .................................... 7
Bluff Springs Field Development................................................ 7
Jay Field Development .......................................................... 7
Mt. Carmel Field Development................................................. 11
Blackjack Creek Field Development.......................................... 11
McClellan Field Development................................................. 11
South Florida Field Development Drilling ....................................... 12
Corkscrew Field Development .................................................. 12
Raccoon Point Field Development............................................ 12
Exploratory Drilling.............................................................. ... 17
O overview ............................................................................ 17
Northwest Florida Exploratory Drilling........................................... 17
McClellan Field Discovery...................................................... 17
Coldwater Creek Field Discovery ............................................. 17
Other Northwest Florida Exploratory Drilling ................................. 19
South Florida Exploratory Drilling ............................................... 19
Geophysical Exploration Activity ....................................................... 20
Exploration In Federal Waters, Offshore Florida .................................... 22
Background .................................... ....................................... 22
Activity ..................................................................... ........ 22
Policy ...................................................................... ......... 22
Sum m ary.................................................................. ............. 23
References............................................................................... 27
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure Page
1. South Florida oil field location map ................................................. 2
2. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, south
Florida .................................................................... ......... 3
3. Northwest Florida oil field location map............................................. 4
4. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, northwest
Florida .................................................................... ......... 5
5. Oil production decline, 1978 through 1987 ......................................... 6
6. 1986 and 1987 oil production comparison.......................................... 8
7. Bluff Springs, Coldwater Creek, McClellan, and Sweetwater Creek fields loca-
tion m ap.................................................................. .......... 9
8. Geophysical log correlation, Bluff Springs field..................................... 10
9. Mount Carmel field structure map, top of Norphlet Sandstone.................... 13
10. Blackjack Creek field structure map, top of Smackover Formation ............. 14
11. Geophysical log correlation, McClellan field...................................... 15
12. Corkscrew and Lake Trafford fields structure map, top of Sunniland Formation 16
13. Raccoon Point structure map, top of Sunniland Formation........................ 18
14. 1986 and 1987 geophysical exploration activity.................................. 21
15. Florida portion of the 1987-1992 federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas
leasing program ...................................................................... 24
16. Active leases and wells drilled during 1986 and 1987 in federal waters, off-
shore Florida.......................................................................... 25
TABLES
Table Page
1. Jay field and state wide production decline......................................... 6
2. Geophysical survey mileage, 1984 through 1987................................ 20
APPENDICES
Appendix Page
1. Florida oil field discovery well data................................................ 29
2. 1986, 1987 and cumulative production data........................................ 30
3. 1986 and 1987 field well statistics ................................................ 31
4. 1986 and 1987 field wells drilled .................................................... 32
5. 1986 and 1987 wildcat wells drilled................................................. 35
6. 1986 and 1987 geophysical exploration activity.................................. 37
7. 1986 and 1987 wells drilled in federal waters offshore Florida.................... 39
ABSTRACT
Florida oil production declined during 1986 and 1987. Despite this state-wide decline, production in-
creased in south Florida.
A total of 14 field development wells were drilled during 1986 and 1987. Eleven were completed as
potential producers. Three were plugged and abandoned as dry holes. The potential producers included
development wells drilled at the recently discovered McClellan and Corkscrew fields.
Successful wildcat drilling in northwest Florida led to the discoveries of McClellan and Coldwater Creek
fields. With one exception, northwest Florida exploratory drilling was targeted for the Upper Jurassic
Smackover Formation or Norphlet Sandstone. The exception was an Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa For-
mation test well. South Florida wildcats targeted the Lower Cretaceous Sunniland Formation.
Geophysical exploration concentrated in Florida's productive areas, the panhandle and south Florida.
Two new areas were explored during 1986 and 1987. These were the offshore panhandle area and the
central peninsula area.
Offshore exploratory drilling in federal waters was slow during 1986 and 1987. This period marked the
beginning of important policy-making negotiations and decisions by Florida's Governor Martinez. Negoti-
ations with the Secretary of the U. S. Department of the Interior, Donald Hodol, resulted in greater protection
for Florida's fragile coastal environments.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Several Florida Geological Survey staff members contributed to this report. Charles Tootle compiled oil
field data and production statistics. The Oil and Gas Section maintains files on permitted exploratory and
development drilling. Joan Ragland and Charles Tootle provided comments and assistance in using these
files. Joan Ragland tabulated and assisted with the interpretation of the geophysical exploration permit
data. Jim Jones and Ted Kiper drafted and photographed the figures. Paulette Bond, Joan Ragland, Frank
Rupert, and Tom Scott edited the manuscript and suggested improvements.
Debbie Tucker (Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, Florida) furnished copies of correspondence and
press releases covering the Governor's policies on exploration for oil and gas in federal waters off Florida.
She also provided publications and contacts within the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) offices
where drilling data could be obtained. George Dellagiarino (MMS, Reston, Virginia) and David Cook (MMS,
Metairie, Louisiana) provided the data for drilling in federal waters off Florida.
INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106
1986 AND 1987 FLORIDA PETROLEUM
PRODUCTION AND EXPLORATION
Jacqueline M. I
INTRODUCTION
There are two major oil producing areas in
Florida. One is the Sunniland trend in south Florida,
the other is the western panhandle area. The
Sunniland trend includes 14 oil fields; the western
panhandle area includes seven. Appendix 1 lists
the discovery well data for these fields.
The Sunniland trend production began with Flor-
ida's first oil discovery at Sunniland field in Sep-
tember, 1943. Of the 14 Sunniland trend oil fields,
10 are active, one is temporarily shut-in, and three
are plugged and abandoned. These fields are ori-
ented along a northwest-southeast trend through
Lee, Hendry, Collier, and Dade counties (Figure
1). Production is principally from rudistid reefs
found in the upper one hundred feet of the Lower
Cretaceous Sunniland Formation (Figure 2).
Production in the western panhandle began with
the discovery of Jay field in June, 1970. The seven
panhandle oil fields are located in Escambia and
Santa Rosa Counties, Florida (Figure 3). Five fields
are active, one is temporarily shut-in, and one is
plugged and abandoned. Production is from Upper
Jurassic Smackover Formation carbonates and
Norphlet Sandstone sands (Figure 4).
1986 AND 1987
PRODUCTION
Florida oil production began to decline In 1979
and has continued to do so since then (Table 1
and Figure 5). Total oil production for 1986 was
9,382,973 barrels, down 18 percent from 1985. Oil
production dropped another 12 percent during
1987 for a 1987 total of 8,269,632 barrels. Appen-
dix 2 lists 1986, 1987, and cumulative production
statistics for each of Florida's oil fields including
oil, gas, and water production data. Appendix 3
lists 1986 and 1987 field well statistics including
the number of production, injection, shut-in, and
temporarily abandoned wells for each field.
Although Jay field production is declining, it con-
tinues to dominate Florida oil production. The field
3y
Lloyd, P. G. #74
was discovered in 1970 and reached peak pro-
duction in 1978. It accounts for about 59 percent
of the 1986 oil production total, about 57 percent
of the1987 total, and about 71 percent of the cu-
mulative total. Table 1 lists both state wide annual
oil production and Jay field annual oil production
for 1978 through 1987. Figure 5 graphically Illus-
trates these data, clearly showing Jay field's dom-
inance in Florida oil production trends.
Figure 6 is a histogram comparing 1986 oil pro-
duction with 1987 oil production for all Florida oil
fields except Jay field. Jay field data would obscure
the information for all other fields since its produc-
tion for 1986 was six times greater than that of
West Felda field, the next most productive field in
Florida. Its 1987 production was almost five times
greater. Overall, northwest Florida production de-
creased by 28 percent from 1986 to 1987, while
south Florida production Increased by 13 percent.
The only fields in Florida which showed an increase
in production for these two years were located in
south Florida: West Felda field, Corkscrew field,
and Mid-Felda field.
1986 and 1987
ONSHORE DRILLING
ACTIVITY
Field Development Drilling
OVERVIEW
A total of 14 field development wells were drilled
during 1986 and 1987. A data summary for these
wells is given in Appendix 4. Eleven wells were
completed as successful potential producers, in-
cluding two wells each at the recently discovered
Corkscrew and McClellan fields. Three wells were
plugged and abandoned as dry holes. Unfortu-
nately, this included a second attempt to confirm
the discovery at Bluff Springs field in Escambia
County, Florida. Field development wells were also
drilled at Jay, Mt. Carmel, Blackjack Creek, and
Raccoon Point fields (Appendix 4). The following
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
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Figure 2. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, south Florida.
BROWN
DOLOMITE
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BASAL
CLASTICS
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
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Figure 3. Northwest Florida oil field location map.
INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106
SANDSTONE
LIMESTONE
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ANHYDRITE
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Figure 4. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, northwest Florida.
SYSTEM STAGE GROUPS AND FORMATIONS LITHOLOGY
LOWER
CRETACEOUS BERRIASIAN !. !!. .
COTTON VALLEY i.......
GROUP ...........
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UPPER HAYNESVILLE ...................... .........
KIMMERIDGIAN FORMATION :......
UPPER::::::
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Table 1. Jay Field and State Wide Production Declines.
JAY FIELD PRODUCTION
Oil Prod.,
Barrels
36,080,383
36,075,891
31,905,545
24,972,497
16,750,425
12,530,827
8,769,649
6,358,259
5,518,771
4,676,964
S) I
% Decrease
from
Previous Yr.
0.01
11.56
21.73
32.92
25.19
30.02
27.50
13.20
15.15
STATE WIDE PRODUCTION
Oil Prod.,
Barrels
% Decrease
from Previous Yr.
47,536,191
47,167,861
42,886,498
34,743,513
25,623,366
19,475,574
14,461,969
11,457,913
9,382,973
8,269,632
0.77
9.08
18.99
26.25
23.99
25.74
20.77
18.11
11.87
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State Wide
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1986
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Figure 5. Oil production decline, 1978 through 1987.
Year
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 108
text discusses the 1986 and 1987 field develop-
ment drilling by field. Discovery data, Initial pro-
duction, and available geologic Information Is
Included for each of these fields.
NORTHWEST FLORIDA FIELD
DEVELOPMENT DRILLING
Bluff Springs Field Development
Bluff Springs field was discovered on March 25,
1984. The discovery well, the Stone Petroleum
Corporation St. Regis Paper Company number
29-4 (permit 1125) was a rank wildcat located in
Section 29, T5N, R31W, Escambla County, ap-
proximately 10 miles west-southwest of Jay field
and approximately four miles southeast of the near-
est previously drilled wildcat, permit 1177 (Figure
7 and Appendix 1 In this report; see also Lloyd and
Applegate, 1987). This area, west and southwest
of Jay, is known to be underlain by Louann Salt
with seismic studies Indicating salt-induced fault
structures in the overlying formations (Lloyd and
Applegate, 1987).
The discovery well produced 477 barrels of oil
and 170 barrels of saltwater per day. Oil gravity
was 57.00 A.P.I.. Production is from Jurassic-age
Smackover Formation dolomites from 16,154 to
-16,161 feet mean sea level (MSL) (Figure 8).
These dolomites are dark, fine grained, microcrys-
talline and show evidence of recrystallization from
originally oolitic and possibly pelletal faces (Lloyd,
1986; Lloyd and Applegate, 1987).
The first offset, permit 1136 (Stone Petroleum
Corporation St. Regis Paper Company 29-3), ir-,
located about one-half mile northwest of the dis-
covery well (Figure 7). The Smackover Formation
was encountered at -16,171 feet MSL, structurally
17 feet lower than In the discovery well (Figure 8).
The well produced only saltwater from two thin
zones (-16,182 to -16,185 feet MSL and
-16,192 to -16,195 feet MSL; Figure 8) within
the upper Smackover. Core analysis by Location
Sample Service, Inc. (LSS), Jackson, Mississippi,
yielded mean porosity estimates for these zones
of 11.4 and 8.4 percent, respectively. LSS found a
trace of oil In one sample at -16,185 feet MSL.
This well was apparently located too low on the
structure and was plugged and abandoned as a
dry hole on July 20, 1984.
Ownership of the discovery well transferred to
Hughes Eastern Corporation in 1985. Permits were
issued to Hughes Eastern to drill two offsets, one
east and one southeast of the discovery well (per-
mits 1204 and 1205, Figure 7). Given the results
of the offset to the northwest, presumably Hughes
hoped to find the Smackover at structurally higher
positions In these new offsets. Permit 1204 was
completed in August 1986. They drilled permit 1204
and the Smackover was again found at a structur-
ally lower position (Figure 8) this time 44 feet
lower. Two zones of salt water production were
also encountered (- 16,208 to -16,211 feet MSL
and -16,215 to -16,223 feet MSL; Figure 8). LSS
core analysis yielded mean porosity estimates of
23.9 and 13.6 percent, respectively, and no Indi-
cations of oil. The third offset, permit 1205, has not
been drilled.
Jay Field Development
Jay field (Figure 3) was discovered in June,
1970, by the drilling of the Humble St. Regis num-
ber 1 (permit 417) in Section 43, T5N, R29W, Santa
Rosa County (Appendix 1). The well produced from
the Smackover Formation from -15,266 to
-15,320 feet MSL. The initial production test
yielded 1712 barrels of 50.7' A.P.I. gravity oil and
23 barrels of saltwater per day.
Jay field is located within the "Jay trend" of Es-
cambia and Santa Rosa Counties, Florida and Es-
cambia County, Alabama. The northern extension
of Jay, in Escambla County, is the Little Escambia
Creek (LEC) field. Other fields within the trend in-
clude Mt. Carmel, Coldwater Creek, and Blackjack
Creek fields in Florida and Fanny Church, Flom-
aton, and Big Escambia Creek fields in Alabama.
The fields are located along a normal fault complex
(the Foshee Fault System) which rims the Gulf
Coast to the west through Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Oil accumulation
at Jay is within an asymmetrically shaped anticline
with the fault complex forming the eastern barrier
to oil migration (Applegate and Lloyd, 1985).
The northern seal of Jay field is formed by a
porosity barrier in Alabama where the lithology
changes from porous dolomite to dense, micritic
limestone. The porosity at Jay field is due to do-
lomitization of the pelletal grainstones in the upper
regressive section of the Smackover Formation.
Dolomitization, fresh water leaching, and an an-
hydrite cap rock (Buckner Member of the Haynes-
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
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2 4 6 8 10 12 14
3 5 7 9 11 13 15
AC1VE FLORIDA OL FiELDS EXCLUDING JAY
West Felda
Blackjack Creek
Raccoon Point
Bear Island
Lehigh Park
Sunoco Felda
Bluff Springs
Corkscrew
Mid-Felda
Townsend Canal
Sunniland
Mt. Carmel
McCllelan
Lake Trafford
Figure 6. 1986 and 1987 oil production comparison (excluding field number 1-Jay field).
1200
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400 -
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Figure 7. Bluff Springs, Coldwater Creek, McClellan, and Sweetwater Creek fields location map
showing generalized structure, top of Smackover Formation (modified from Lloyd and
Applegate, 1987).
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106
ville Formation, Figure 4) have helped form a
complex, extensive reservoir. Numerous analyses
of the Jay area Smackover, including comparisons
with modern carbonate environments, have been
made in attempts to understand this complex res-
ervoir (Ottman et al., 1973 and 1976; Sigsby, 1976,
Mancini and Benson, 1980; Lomando et al., 1981;
Vinet, 1984; Moore, 1984; Bradford, 1984; Lloyd
et al., 1986).
Despite the complexity of the Jay field Smac-
kover Formation reservoir, exploration and devel-
opment of the field has been extremely successful.
Core analyses were combined with bottom hole
pressure data, porosity log information, and other
geologic data to arrive at a highly successful res-
ervoir management program (Shirer et al., 1978;
Langston et al., 1981; Langston and Shirer, 1985).
Five new development wells were drilled at Jay
field during 1986 and 1987 (Appendix 4). All five
were successfully completed as potential produc-
ers. Only 13 dry holes have been drilled at Jay
field, compared with 119 producing wells, through
January 1988.
Mt. Carmel Field Development
Mt. Carmel field was discovered in December,
1971 by the Louisiana Land and Exploration Com-
pany (LL & E). The discovery well was the LL & E
Finley Heirs 39-3 (P-504), located about one mile
east of Jay field in Section 39, T5N, R29W, Santa
Rosa County (Figure 9). Initial production was
1,440 barrels of 470 A.P.I. gravity oil per day with
no saltwater.
It is separated from Jay by the Foshee Fault
System (Figure 9). Production is from both the
Smackover Formation and the Norphlet Sand-
stone. Dual reservoir production and complex ge-
ometry have apparently made development of this
field more difficult. As of January, 1988, three pro-
ducing wells and 10 dry holes had been drilled at
Mt. Carmel field.
Two wells were spudded duringl987. One (per-
mit 1219) was completed as a potential producer;
the other (permit 1221) was plugged and aban-
doned as a dry hole (Appendix 4). Permit 1219 was
actually a reentry of an older well that produced oil
from 1973 through 1982. The older well (permit
660) produced about 1.7 million barrels of oil from
the Norphlet Sandstone before going to 100 per-
cent saltwater. At that time, the operator (Louisiana
Land and Exploration Company, LL&E) stated that
log and core analysis of the Smackover Formation
indicated "extremely low porosities and permea-
bilities." They believed that no further production
potential existed and the well was plugged and
abandoned. The reentry (permit 1219) is still con-
fidential. Information explaining why LL&E decided
that the well indeed did have production potential
has not been released. The well was completed
as a potential producer on April 22, 1988.
Blackjack Creek Field Development
The Blackjack Creek field discovery well was the
Humble Oil and Refining Co. St. Regis Paper
Company 13-3 well (permit 523) drilled in Section
13, T4N, R29W, Santa Rosa County, about eight
miles southeast of Jay field. The well was com-
pleted February 14, 1972, as a producer in the
Norphlet Sandstone from -15,965 to -15,975
MSL. Initial production was 371 barrels of 51.3
A.P.I. gravity oil and 4.5 barrels of saltwater per
day. Due to limited productivity and water produc-
tion from the Norphlet Sandstone, the well was
recompleted as a Smackover Formation producer
from -15,635 to -15,745 feet MSL. The initial
production test from the Smackover, on January
22,1975, yielded 1,428 barrels of 51.20 A.P.I. grav-
ity oil and no saltwater.
Blackjack Creek field now produces primarily
from dolomitized oolites of the Smackover For-
mation (Applegate and Lloyd, 1985). About
160,000 barrels of oil have been produced from
the Norphlet Sandstone. The remaining produc-
tion, 53,343,000 barrels through December 1987,
is from the Smackover. The trapping structure is
an anticline located on the downthrown, southwest
side of the regional Foshee Fault System (Figure
10). Similar to Jay field, Blackjack Creek has been
carefully cored and analyzed to achieve a suc-
cessful reservoir management and development
program. Through January, 1988, 20 producing
wells had been drilled at Blackjack Creek. Only five
dry holes had been drilled. This dry hole count
includes the most recent well drilled. Permit 1188
(Appendix 4) was drilled by Exxon Corporation and
was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole on
March 7, 1986.
McClellan Field Development
McClellan field was discovered on February 19,
1986 (Figure 7, Appendix 1). The discovery well,
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Exxon Corporation State of Florida number 33-1
(permit 1194, Appendices 1 and 5) is located about
3.25 miles north of the abandoned Sweetwater
Creek field in Section 33, T6N, R26W, Santa Rosa
County. McClellan field is located within the area
known to be underlain by the Louann Salt and may
have a salt-related trap structure. It is also located
within a few miles of the approximated updip limits
of the Smackover Formation (Figure 7 in this report;
see also Applegate et al., 1978; Ottman et al., 1973
and 1976), thus, the trap could be a stratigraphic
pinchout. Currently released data does not reveal
which trap mechanism produced the Smackover
reservoir for this field.
An initial flowing test of the McClellan field dis-
covery well produced 152 barrels of 410 A.P.I. grav-
ity oil per day and no saltwater. Production is from
Smackover Formation dolomites from 13,828 to
- 13,845 feet MSL (Figure 11). Core analysis of a
potential oil and gas productive zone from 13,819
to 13,845 feet MSL by Core Laboratories, Inc.
(Dallas, Texas) indicated a mean porosity of 12.3
percent. The analysis showed additional oil and
gas production potential between -13,854 and
13,863 feet MSL. Mean porosity is about 15 per-
cent for this zone. Both of the analyzed zones con-
tained dark, fine grained, micro-crystalline
dolomites with vuggy porosity.
The first offset and confirmation well was Exxon
Corporation State of Florida number 34-2 (permit
1206). It is located about one-half mile east of the
discovery well. It was tested on March 9, 1987 and
flowed 641 barrels of 43.40 A.P.I. gravity oil and 24
barrels of saltwater per day. The Smackover For-
mation was encountered at 13,788 feet MSL, 27
feet higher than in the discovery well (Figure 11).
Production is from the Smackover Formation from
13,797 to 13,847 feet MSL. Core analysis by
All Points, Inc. (Houston, Texas) yielded a mean
porosity of 11.5 percent for the productive zone.
A second offset to the discovery well, Exxon
Corporation State of Florida number 34-2 (permit
1226) was drilled approximately one-half mile north
of the discovery well (Figure 7). This well was
completed as a potential producer on November
2, 1987. Additional information on this well is still
confidential.
SOUTH FLORIDA FIELD
DEVELOPMENT DRILLING
Corkscrew Field Development
Corkscrew field was discovered on November
19, 1985 with an initial swab test of the R.K. Pe-
troleum Rex Properties number 33-2 (permit
1170, Figure 12). Corkscrew field is located about
two and one-half miles north and slightly west of
the one-well Lake Trafford field in Collier County,
Florida (Figures 1 and 12). In its initial test, the
discovery well produced 435 barrels of oil per day
(with no saltwater) from open hole in the Sunniland
at 11,547 to 11,565 feet (- 11,502 to 11,520
feet MSL). Oil gravity was 250 A.P.I.
Core analysis by Analytical Logging, Inc. (Ft.
Myers, Florida) indicated an oil producing zone
from 11,506 to -11,515 feet MSL. The zone
was described as a "fossil-hash" of dolomitic lime-
stone with an average porosity of 15.25 percent.
The first offset and confirmation well was the R.
K. Petroleum Alico, Inc. number 32-1 (permit
1199). It is located about one-third mile west of the
discovery well (Figure 12, Appendix 4). It was com-
pleted as a potential producer on May 2, 1986. The
initial production test on June 9, 1986 yielded 424
barrels of 260 A.P.I. oil per day and no saltwater.
The Sunniland was encountered at -11,489 feet
MSL; a porous zone was encountered at 11,504
feet MSL. Production is from open hole in the Sun-
niland Formation from 11,503 to -11,511 feet
MSL.
Permit 1201, the R.K. Petroleum Bernice D.
Pepper number 28-3 (Figure 12, Appendix 4) was
drilled as a north outpost to the Corkscrew discov-
ery well. Its surface location is about one-half mile
north-northeast of the discovery. The bottom hole
location is about 1000 feet west of the surface
location. Apparently, it did not encounter the ex-
pected Sunniland pay zone. It was plugged back
to -8955 feet MSL and sidetracked as permit
1201 A. The bottom hole location in the sidetracked
hole is about 800 feet west of the surface hole
location. The sidetracked well pumped 218 barrels
of oil per day (with no saltwater) from open hole in
the Sunniland Formation from -11,501 to
11,519 feet MSL. Similar to the producing zone
of the discovery well, Analytical Logging, Inc. (Ft.
Myers, Florida) described a core from this zone as
a bioclastic, fossil-hash of dolomitic limestone.
Raccoon Point Field Development
Raccoon Point field is the southeastern-most ac-
tive field in the Sunniland trend (Figure 1). The field
was discovered on June 20, 1978 (Appendix 1)
and has been rapidly developed. The discovery
INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106
MOUNT CARMEL FIELD
Santa Rosa County, Florida
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PRODUCER
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CORKSCREW AND
LAKE TRAFFORD FIELDS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
STRUCTURE
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Cheesman, 1988, personal communication).
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well was the Exxon Oleum Corporation number
33-4 (permit 829) drilled in Section 33, T51S,
R43E, Collier County (Appendix 1). Initial produc-
tion was from the -11,372 to -11,376 foot MSL
interval of the Sunniland Formation. The first reli-
able production test was made on June 20, 1978,
when the discovery well pumped 57 barrels of 23.30
A.P.I. gravity oil and 845 barrels of saltwater per
day.
Applegate and Lloyd (1985) published a prelim-
inary structure map of the top of the Sunniland
Formation for Raccoon Point field. Several wells
have been released from confidential status since
that time. Figure 13 is an updated structure map
for the field and indicates a dome trending north-
west-southeast. The new data provides more detail
for the top of the structure; however, the limits of
the field are still undefined.
One producing well was completed at Raccoon
Point during 1986 (permit 1190, Appendix 4). A
total of 15 producing wells have been drilled. No
dry holes have been drilled in the Raccoon Point
field area.
Exploratory Drilling
OVERVIEW
A total of 12 wildcat wells were drilled during
1986 and 1987 (Appendix 5). Nine of these were
drilled in northwest Florida; the remaining three
were drilled in south Florida. Two wells were com-
pleted as potential producers. These were the dis-
covery wells for McClellan and Coldwater Creek
fields. Both fields are located in northwest Florida
and produce from the Smackover Formation (Fig-
ures 3 and 7, Appendix 1).
NORTHWEST FLORIDA
EXPLORATORY DRILLING
McClellan Field Discovery
McClellan field was discovered on February 15,
1986 with the initial testing of the Exxon Corpo-
ration State of Florida number 33-1 (permit 1194,
Appendices 1 and 5, Figure 7). Two successful
development wells (permits 1206 and 1226, Ap-
pendix 4, Figure 7) were drilled during 1987.
McClellan field discovery and development history
is discussed in greater detail in the field develop-
ment section of this report.
Coldwater Creek Field Discovery
Coldwater Creek field was discovered on June
4, 1988. The discovery well was a reentry of a
Smackover wildcat. The original permit was issued
to Inexco Oil Company (permit 1173, Appendix 5,
Figure 7). The location is about two miles east of
the southern portion of Jay field in Section 26,
Township 5 North, Range 29 West. Inexco began
drilling in November, 1985. They drilled the well to
a total depth of -15,407 feet MSL, logged the well,
and recommended plugging and abandonment.
The top of the Smackover Formation had been
encountered at -14,969 feet MSL; the Norphlet
Sandstone at -15,331 feet MSL. Side wall core
analyses by Location Sample Service, Inc. (Jack-
son, Mississippi) indicated a potential oil productive
zone from -14,985 to -15,016 feet MSL. Mean po-
rosity of the zone was about 14.8 percent.
Analysis of the same interval by Charles Tootle
(Florida Geological Survey, unpublished data,
1986) yielded a mean porosity of about 12 percent,
an original oil in place estimate of 2,080,107 bar-
rels, and a recoverable oil estimate of 312,016 bar-
, rels. Tootle (personal communication, 1988)
' believes that there might not be enough recover-
able oil for economical production. This interpre-
tation is based on current oil prices and operating
costs (the oil contains hydrogen sulfide which
would add significantly to operating costs).
LL&E took over operations on January 10, 1986.
They considered completing the well, however,
they decided to plug and abandon it. The plugging
procedures were completed by January 18, 1986.
Another operator, Bruxoil, Inc., then took over re-
sponsibility for the well. They received a permit to
shoot a seismic line across the area (geophysical
permit G-70-86, Appendix 6). The purpose was to
determine whether to reenter the existing well or
drill at a new location. They decided not to reenter
the well and have not submitted any permit appli-
cations to drill in the vicinity.
In 1987, Red Rock Oil and Minerals Corporation,
received permit 1220 (Appendix 5 and Figure 7) to
reenter the well, believing that it did have economic
potential. They completed redrilling on May 24,
1987 and ran the first production test on June 4,
1988. Details of the test have not been released.
Production is from the zone discussed above, from
-14,985 to -15,016 feet MSL in the Smackover For-
mation. Production has been intermittent.
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR NO. 106
Other Northwest Florida
Exploratory Drilling
The remaining northwest Florida wildcats were
plugged and abandoned as dry holes (Appendix
5). They were Smackover Formation or Norphlet
Sandstone test wells, with one exception which
tested the Tuscaloosa Formation.
Permit 1229, the Pruet Production Company-
Champion International number 35-4, had the Up-
per Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Formation as its target.
The Pruet well is located between Jay and Mt.
Carmel fields in Santa Rosa County within the
structurally complex area associated with the
Foshee Fault System (Figure 9). Interest in the
Tuscaloosa Formation in this particular area is
probably due to the recent discovery of the Foshee
field in Escambia County, Alabama (Montgomery,
1987). The Foshee field was discovered on the
upthrown side of a normal fault associated with the
Foshee Fault System. The field produces from the
Lower Tuscaloosa. The Lower Tuscaloosa is pro-
ductive at several other fields in southwestern Al-
abama. The other fields, however, are widely
scattered and were all opened more than 30 years
ago. The Foshee field has uniquely high gravity oil
(40-42o A.P.I.) compared to other Upper Creta-
ceous fields in southwestern Alabama. Gravities
for other Upper Cretaceous field in the area range
from less than 200 to approximately 30 A.P.I.
(Montgomery, 1987; Sexton, 1986; Mancini and
Payton, 1981). Montgomery (1987) states that this
may indicate that the oil at Foshee field originated
from a deeper source and migrated along fault
planes associated with the Foshee Fault System.
Montgomery (1987) notes that this discovery set
off strong interest in the Tuscaloosa in southwest-
ern Alabama and possibly in Santa Rosa County,
Florida. The drilling of permit 1229 supports the
latter part of his statement. The location was prob-
ably chosen in the hopes of finding high gravity oil
associated with fault-plane migration as was the
case at Foshee field in Alabama. Unfortunately,
the well was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole
on January 14, 1988.
SOUTH FLORIDA
EXPLORATORY DRILLING
The Sunniland Formation is the only petroleum
producing horizon in South Florida. The Sunniland
trend oil fields produce from an area that is about
145 miles long and 12 miles wide (Figure 1 in this
report; see also Applegate and Pontigo, 1984). Bio-
clastic limestones in the upper Sunniland Forma-
tion form oil producing highs on the trend. The
highs are bioherms composed of rudistids, algal
plates, foraminifera and pelletal debris and are
quite porous and permeable. They grade laterally
into miliolid-rich, non-porous, light-colored lime-
stones (Applegate and Pontigo, 1984).
Geochemical analysis by Applegate and Pontigo
(1984) confirmed that the source for the Sunniland
trend's oil is a dark-colored micritic limestone facies
found in the lower Sunniland Formation. Their geo-
logic investigations indicate that the dark-colored
micritic faces is absent updip (to the northeast)
from the producing trend. In addition, permeability
downdip (to the southwest) appears too low for
hydrocarbon migration. They conclude that pro-
duction can be expected to occur where the porous
units are juxtaposed with the organic-rich, dark-
colored micrites. This has occurred along the "reef-
trend" (the current producing trend consisting of
rudistid-bioherm reservoirs).
Applegate and Pontigo (1984) conclude that new
Sunniland discoveries away from the currently pro-
ducing trend can be expected downdip only if new
zones of suitable porosity are found in conjunction
with the dark micrite faces. Exploration updip from
the producing trend has been sparse and unsuc-
cessful. As pointed out by Montgomery (1987), the
total area within the Sunniland trend is fairly large
(about 1,500 square miles) and well control is low.
The best overall exploration approach appears to
be identification of paleoenvironment and faces
changes within and immediately adjacent to the
productive trend (Montgomery, 1987).
Three wildcat wells were drilled in south Florida
during the 1986-1987 period (Appendix 5). All three
were plugged and abandoned as dry holes. As
expected, the Sunniland Formation was the target
for production in all three cases. Unexpected was
the location of the J. M. Huber Corporation Lykes
Brothers number 26-2 (permit 1193). This well is
located in Section 26, Township 39 South, Range
31 East, in Glades County, Florida approximately
6.6 miles northeast of the nearest Sunniland pro-
duction at the Townsend Canal field. Only two other
wells have been drilled in Glades County. Both
were drilled in the 1950's and were dry holes.
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
GEOPHYSICAL
EXPLORATION
ACTIVITY
Twenty applications for geophysical permits
were received during 1986; 16 were received dur-
ing 1987. Of these 36 applications, 32 have been
permitted, three were withdrawn by the applicants,
and one is still being processed (Appendix 6). Fig-
ure 14 shows the areas covered by these permits.
Geophysical exploration during 1986 included
the first permitted offshore seismic activity in
Florida state waters. Two airgun surveys were
completed covering 2,330 miles of seismic lines off
the coast of the panhandle. Another previously
unpermitted area, in the central peninsula of
Florida, was explored in 1987. It included 124 miles
of Vibroseis survey in Citrus, Hernando, Lake,
Pasco, and Sumter Counties.
A single application was received for exploration
in the northern peninsula. Although this application
was later withdrawn by the applicant, it Indicates
continued interest in this area. The withdrawn ap-
plication included a request to conduct a Vibrosels
survey covering 100 miles in Columbia, Lafayette,
and Suwannee Counties. Previously permitted sur-
veys in 1984 and 1985 covered 100 miles of Vi-
broseis lines in Jackson, Madison, Hamilton, and
Columbia Counties.
Table 2 summarizes geophysical survey mileage
for 1984 through 1987 permits. The 1986 peak in
geophysical survey mileage is due to the inclusion
of the 2,330 miles of offshore survey. Panhandle
onshore exploration peaked in 1985 with 1,067.5
miles approved and eventually surveyed. Survey
mileage in this region was significantly lower in
1986 and 1987.
The value for completed south Florida explora-
tion during 1987 is low because several surveys
are pending for this area. An additional 370.43
miles of survey are pending from 1987 applications:
two approved permits covering 171.43 miles have
not been surveyed and an additional application
including 199 miles is still being processed.
Table 2. Geophysical Survey Mileage, 1984 through 1987.
COMPLETED GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
1984 1985 1986 1987
Area Total Total Total Total
North Peninsula 48.00 52.00 0.00 0.00
Central Peninsula 0.00 0.00 0.00 124.00
South Florida 22.00 392.25 463.20 25.00
Panhandle Onshore 570.50 1,067.50 236.60 209.35
Panhandle Offshore 0.00 0.00 2,330.00 0.00
*Completed 640.50 1,511.75 3,029.80 358.35
PENDING GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
South Florida 4.00 0.00 0.00 370.43
Panhandle Onshore 37.00 0.00 0.00 10.00
Panhandle Offshore 0.00 350.00 0.00 314.00
Pending 41.00 350.00 0.00 694.43
TOTALS: COMPLETED AND PENDING GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
Completed + Pending
681.50
1,861.75
3,029.80
1,052.78
"NOTE: Mileage for a completed geophysical survey is totaled under the year that the application for a
geophysical permit was received. Actual survey may have been completed during a subsequent year.
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EXPLANATION L
PERMITTED AND SURVEYED
PERMITTED, NOT SURVEYED
O APPLICATION RECIEVED, NOT PERMITTED
SCALE
0 30 60 MILES
0 50 100 KILOMETERS \
STATE OF FLORIDA
1986-87 GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION
Figure 14. 1986 and 1987 geophysical exploration activity.
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Overall, geophysical exploration was steady dur-
ing this period in Florida. New areas were explored
during 1986 and 1987. These were the offshore
panhandle area and the central peninsula area.
Interest in Florida's oil producing areas, the pan-
handle and south Florida, remains fairly constant.
There is also a constant interest in the northern
peninsula area (Table 2 and Figure 14 in this report;
see also Applegate and Lloyd, 1985; Lloyd and
Applegate, 1987).
EXPLORATION IN
FEDERAL WATERS,
OFFSHORE FLORIDA
Background
State ownership of the continental shelf off Flor-
ida extends three miles into the Atlantic Ocean and
about 10.5 miles (three marine leagues) into the
Gulf of Mexico. The federal government controls
resources beyond these state boundaries out to
200 miles. The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is a
jurisdictional term that describes the offshore area
which is under control of the federal government.
"Federal waters," in this context, does not refer to
ownership, but rather to responsibility (Johnson
and Tucker, 1987).
For planning purposes, the federal government
divides the OCS into planning areas. Three plan-
ning areas surround Florida: the Eastern Planning
Area, the Straits of Florida, and the South Atlantic
Planning area (Figure 15). The planning areas are
further subdivided into "map areas" (for example,
Pensacola Area, Destin Dome Area, Desoto Can-
yon Area) and "blocks." A three-square-mile block
is the actual leasing unit used by the Department
of the Interior (Johnson and Tucker, 1987).
Activity
The first federal oil and gas lease sale off Florida
was conducted in May, 1959 off the Florida keys
in what is now the Straits of Florida Planning Area.
Ten additional OCS lease sales have occurred
since then; seven in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Planning Area and three in the South Atlantic Plan-
ning area. There have been no sales in the Straits
of Florida Planning Area since the 1959 sale. The
last lease sale in the South Atlantic Planning Area
off Florida was Sale 78 in July, 1983.
The two most recent lease sales off Florida were
in the Eastern Planning Area. They were Sales 79
and 94, held in January, 1984 and January, 1985,
respectively. These lease sales are discussed in
Applegate and Lloyd (1985) and Lloyd and Apple-
gate (1987). Active leases in the Eastern Planning
Area are shown on Figure 16.
Seven wells were drilled off Florida during 1986
and 1987. Appendix 7 includes data on these wells.
Four of the wells were in the Destin Dome and
Pensacola areas, where the principle drilling tar-
gets are the Smackover Formation and the Nor-
phlet Sandstone (Figure 4). Of the two Destin
Dome wells, one was plugged and abandoned and
the other temporarily abandoned. One of the Pen-
sacola area wells was simply a sidetrack hole of
the other. These were temporarily abandoned.
The remaining three wells were located in the
Charlotte Harbor, Desoto Canyon, and Florida Mid-
dle Ground areas. Cretaceous limestones and do-
lomites are the principle targets in these areas. All
three of these wells were plugged and abandoned
as dry holes.
The federal government classifies offshore well
completions as produciblee" and "other." Produ-
cible zone completions include both producing and
shut-in wells. Shut-in completions are those tem-
porarily taken out of production pending either re-
pairs or major or minor workovers. Other zone
completions include service wells and "not restor-
able" completions. Not restorable completions are
judged not capable of production and are to be
plugged and abandoned and permanently sealed
(Harris, 1988). Both Destin Dome wells were class-
ified as producible. The Charlotte Harbor, Desoto
Canyon, and Florida Middle Ground wells were dry
holes and thus are classified as not restorable. The
Pensacola area well has not been classified yet.
Policy
Recent years have been a critical period for off-
shore exploration policy decisions. The five-year
(1987-1992) Federal Outer Continental Shelf Oil
and Gas Leasing Program was finalized. Governor
Martinez's negotiations with the federal govern-
ment concerning this program reflected Florida's
strong environmental policies and his belief that
"oil and gas activities must not be allowed at the
expense of our unique and sensitive resources"
(Governor Martinez, March 3, 1987 letter to Sec-
retary of the Interior, Donald Hodel).
When the five-year oil and gas leasing plan was
INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106
proposed by the Secretary of the Interior Donald
Hodel, Governor Martinez expressed his concerns
to both Hodel and to President Reagan. He re-
quested that sensitive areas off Apalachicola Bay
in northwest Florida, Florida Bay and the Florida
Keys be removed from the plan. In August 1987,
the Governor filed a petition for judicial review in
federal court of the Department of the Interior's 5-
year leasing plan because these areas were not
removed (Press Release, Office of the Governor,
August 14, 1987).
In January 1988, Secretary Hodel accompanied
Governor Martinez on a snorkeling trip to the Flor-
ida Keys. The Governor was able to show Secre-
tary Hodel "exactly what it is that we in Florida are
fighting to protect." The following March, the Sec-
retary of the Interior agreed to remove 11 million
acres of sensitive habitat around Florida Bay and
the Keys from further consideration of leasing un-
der the 5-year plan (Figure 15). The Secretary fur-
ther agreed to require a one-year study before any
drilling could take place in an area of "special con-
cern" off Cape San Bias in northwest Florida (Fig-
ure 15). The study would verify that the exploration
is for gas and not oil. The Department of the Interior
would also establish an emergency response team
to deal with possible accidents. As a result of this
agreement, the petition for judicial review of the 5-
year plan was dropped (Press Release, Office of
the Governor, March 24, 1988).
In May, 1988, the Governor requested that the
federal government delay exploratory drilling for oil
and gas off southwest Florida. The request spe-
cifically referred to leases which were sold off
southwest Florida during 1984 and 1985. The
leases are located in an areas south of Naples to
just north of the Dry Tortugas, Marquesas Islands,
and the Florida Keys (south of 260 north latitude,
Figure 15). Congress had required a three-year
environmental study before exploratory drilling
would be permitted in this area. A panel of scien-
tists was assembled by Governor Martinez to re-
view the federal environmental study. The panel
concluded that the federal study was not extensive
enough to ensure protection of sensitive environ-
mental resources. Specifically, there was not
enough information to determine the potential ef-
fects of an oil spill. Subsequently, the Governor
supported and Congress imposed a one-year drill-
ing moratorium on the area south of 26 north lat-
itude (Press Releases, Office of the Governor, May
26, 1988 and June 16, 1988).
In June 1988, Hodel agreed to remove 14 million
acres in the same area (south of 260 north latitude)
from the November 1988 lease sale (Figure 15).
Martinez and Hodel appointed two task forces to
assess the environmental impact of proposed drill-
ing in previously leased areas. One task force will
assess the risk posed by oil spills and will deter-
mine the directions spilled oil would be carried by
winds and currents. The second task force will as-
sess the impact of drilling on marine and coastal
resources (Press Release, Office of the Governor,
June 16, 1988). President George Bush estab-
lished an additional federal task force to review
drilling and leasing in this area. This task force
report is due to the president in January 1990.
There will be no leasing and probably no drilling in
the area until then (Deborah Tucker, 1989, per-
sonal communication).
SUMMARY
Florida oil production continued to decline during
1986 and 1987. Jay field, as the leading producing
field for Florida, controls the rate of decline.
Although production was down for the state overall
and for northwest Florida, it increased in south
Florida. The Florida oil fields which showed an
increase in production were West Felda,
Corkscrew, and Mid-Felda fields.
Attempts to further develop the recently discov-
ered Bluff Springs field were unsuccessful. The first
two offset wells were plugged and abandoned as
dry holes. Development of McClellan field was
more successful with two offsets completed as po-
tential producers. The first offset to the Corkscrew
field discovery was completed as a potential pro-
ducer. The second offset required a sidetrack hole,
but was also eventually completed as a potential
producer.
An additional nine field development wells were
drilled at Jay, Mt. Carmel, Blackjack Creek, and
Raccoon Point fields. Seven of these were com-
pleted as potential producers and two were
plugged and abandoned as dry holes. The dry
holes were located at Mt. Carmel and Blackjack
Creek fields.
Twelve wildcat wells were drilled in Florida during
1986 and 1987. Nine were drilled in northwest
Florida and three in south Florida. Two of these
were the discovery wells for McClellan and
Coldwater Creek fields. Both fields are located in
FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Figure 15. Florida portion of the 1987-1992 federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing
program (Johnson and Tucker, 1987). The areas off Florida Bay and the Florida Keys were
removed from the 5-year plan. The area south of 26 North latitude was removed from the
November 1988 lease sale.
INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106
Figure 16. Active leases and wells drilled during 1986 and 1987 in federal waters, offshore Florida
(Slitor and Wiese, 1988).
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northwest Florida and produce from the Smackover
Formation.
With one exception, all northwest Florida wild-
cats were targeted for the Upper Jurassic Smack-
over Formation or Norphlet Sandstone. The ex-
ception was a well drilled to test the Tuscaloosa
Formation. This interest probably results from the
recent discovery of Tuscaloosa production at
Foshee field in Escambia County, Alabama.
All three south Florida wildcats were Sunniland
Formation test wells. One well was located in
Glades County, almost seven miles northeast of
the closest Sunniland production. Applegate and
Pontigo (1984) indicate that Sunniland production
is not likely to be discovered in this area updip from
the producing trend.
Geophysical exploration in Florida's oil-produc-
ing areas, the panhandle and south Florida, re-
mained fairly constant. Two new areas were
explored during 1986 and 1987, the offshore pan-
handle area and the central peninsula area. There
was also a continued interest in the north peninsula
area.
Drilling in federal waters offshore of Florida was
slow during 1986-87. During this time, Florida's
Governor Martinez began negotiations with the
Secretary of the Interior, Donald Hodel, concerning
the Florida portion of the federal outer continental
shelf oil and gas leasing program. Strong protection
was gained for Florida's fragile coastal environ-
ments. Two large blocks of offshore territory were
removed from oil and gas leasing consideration
and a drilling moratorium was implemented
for areas previously leased offshore of southwest
Florida. The federal and state governments also
agreed to establish two task forces to study the
environmental impact of offshore drilling.
In his March 3, 1987 letter to Secretary of the
Interior Hodel, Governor Martinez states:
"Florida has in the past not objected to
oil and gas activities when assurances
were made that our sensitive marine
and coastal resources and the econom-
ics they support would not be adversely
affected. I too support strong protection
of resources vital to Florida. Oil and gas
activities must not be allowed at the ex-
pense of our unique and sensitive re-
sources."
This philosophy is consistent with the manner in
which onshore resources in the environmentally
sensitive areas of south Florida have been
developed. Detailed environmental scrutiny and
regulation have successfully accompanied oil
exploration and production along south Florida's
Sunniland trend. A continuation of this philosophy
into the future will hopefully see the discovery and
wise development of new petroleum resources,
both onshore and offshore, while protecting
Florida's other natural and sensitive environmental
resources.
INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106
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Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, p. 365-374.
APPENDIX 1
FLORIDA OIL FIELD DISCOVERY WELL DATA
DISCOVERY PERMIT
DATE NO.
FIELD
COUNTY
PERFORATIONS TOTAL
DRILL FLOOR OR OPEN HOLE DEPTH
(DF) ELEVATION DEPTH BELOW BELOW
FT. MSL DF. FT. DF, FT.
NAME OF PRODU-
CING FORMATION
DISCOVERY OIL GRAVITY,
STATUS DEGREES API
Sunniland
Forty Mile Bend
Sunoco Felda
West Felda
Lake Trafford
Jay
Mt. Carmel
Blackjack Creek
Bear Island
Seminole
Lehigh Park
Sweetwater Creek
Baxter Island
Mid-Felda
Raccoon Point
Pepper Hammock
Townsend Canal
Bluff Springs
Corkscrew
McClellan
Coldwater Creek
9-26-43
2-1-54
7-22-64
8-2-66
3-30-69
6-15-70
12-19-71
2-14-72
12-5-72
11-14-73
7-30-74
4-22-77
8-11-77
10-13-77
6-20-78
9-28-78
6-27-82
3-25-84
11-10-85
2-19-86
6-4-88
42
167
315
371
401
417
504
523
563
662
712
881
865
904
829
897
1070
1125
1170
1194
1220
Collier
Dade
Hendry
Hendry
Collier
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa
Collier
Hendry
Lee
Santa Rosa
Collier
Hendry
Collier
Collier
Hendry
Escambia
Collier
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa
34
24
53
48
39
204
273
155
30
35
38
254
29
58
38
42
52
178
44
245
164
11,602-11,626
11,322-11,339
11,472-11,485
11,486-11,489
11,870-11,892
15,470-15,524
15,260-15,280
15,790-15,900
11,589-11,595
11,415-11,420
11,389-11,394
14,299-14,340
11,512-11,515
11,492-11,496
11,410-11,414
11,629-11,633
11,416-11,421
16,332-16,339
11,547-11,565
14,072-14,090
15,150-15,170
11,626
11,557
11,485
11,675
11,987
15,984
15,399
16,235
11,817
11,651
11,630
14,611
11,823
11,686
11,658
11,897
11,462
16,800
11,565
14,475
15,400
Sunniland
Sunniland
Sunniland
Sunniland
Sunniland
Smackover
Smackover
& Norphlet
Smackover
Sunniland
Sunniland
Sunniland
Smackover
Sunniland
Sunniland
Sunniland
Sunniland
Sunniland
Smackover
Sunniland
Smackover
Smackover
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Flowing
Flowing
Flowing
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Pumping
Flowing
Swab Test
Flowing
Flowing
APPENDIX 2
1986, 1987 AND CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION DATA (1)
1986 PRODUCTION
Gas
(MCF)
Water
(Bbis)
Oil
(Bbis)
1987 PRODUCTION
Gas
(MCF)
Water
(Bbis)
CUMULATIVE
Oil
(MBbIs)
PRODUCTION
Gas
(MMCF)
NORTHWEST FLORIDA
Bluff Springs 133.281 76,555 97,489 43.434 24.404 154,394 177 102
Jay 5.518.771 8,212.553 44.652,415 4,676,964 7.830.538 51,653,832 355,936 451,819
Blackjack Creek 888,837 1.224,107 7,498,439 695,496 1.106,421 7,422.946 53,503 50,233
Mt. Carmel 45,649 54,294 205,919 31,338 71 94,032 4,590 4,780
McClellan 37,771 14,788 170 27,870 10,266 185 66 25
Sweetwater Creek (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 15
Subtotal 6,624,309 9.582.297 52,454,432 5,475,102 8,971,700 59.325,389 414,286 506,974
SOUTH FLORIDA
Sunoco Felda 165,685 10,127 2,058,374 136,823 9,439 1,968,188 11,409 975
Mid-Felda 61,652 0 127,532 88,085 0 209.489 1,083 10
Townsend Canal 56,700 0 174,628 47,817 0 201,228 329 0
Lehigh Park 184.978 19,132 2,172,210 170,490 16,557 1,477,860 4,892 493
West Felda 918,659 58,977 7,297,077 1,032,969 62,002 7,893,180 40,102 3,141
Corkscrew 73,578 0 0 173,537 0 0 257 0
Lake Trafford 11,095 0 0 10,742 0 0 276 0
Seminole (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 85 0
Sunniland 53,546 4,162 1,143,141 28,077 1.861 731,908 18,409 1,822
Bear Island 439,550 38,403 2,898,415 351,562 29,561 1,783,278 9,993 789
Pepper Hammock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baxter Island (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Raccoon Point 793,221 105,464 478,216 754,428 90,770 605,809 2,930 348
Forty Mile Bend (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 2
Subtotal 2,758,664 236,265 16,349,593 2,794,530 210,190 14,880,940 89,800 7,580
STATEWIDE TOTAL 9,382,973 9,818,562 68,804,025 8,269,632 9,181,890 74,206,329 503,952 514,537
1. Statistics compiled by Charles Tootle, Florida Geological Survey, Oil and Gas Section.
2. Relds are listed in order from north to south.
3. Plugged and abandoned oil fields.
Abbreviations: Bbis Barrels (42 US Gallons)
MBbIs Thousand Barrels
MCF Thousand Cubic Feet
MMCF Million Cubic Feet
FIELD (2)
Oil
(Bbis)
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STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Tom Gardner, Executive Director DIVISION OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Jeremy A. Craft, Director FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Walter Schmidt, State Geologist INFORMATION CIRCULAR NO. 106 1986 and 1987 FLORIDA PETROLEUM PRODUCTION AND EXPLORATION By Jacqueline M. Lloyd Published for the FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Tallahassee 1989 fNIVERSITY OF FLO3JA UIU-AM I
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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES 3 1262 04499 3862 ) /j / BOB MARTINEZ Governor JIM SMITH BOB BUTTERWORTH Secretary of State Attorney General TOM GALLAGHER GERALD LEWIS State Treasurer State Comptroller BETTY CASTOR DOYLE CONNER Commissioner of Education Commissioner of Agriculture TOM GARDNER Executive Director ii
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Florida Geological Survey Tallahassee August 1989 Governor Bob Martinez, Chairman Florida Department of Natural Resources Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Dear Governor Martinez: The Florida Geological Survey, Division of Resource Management, Department of Natural Resources, is publishing as its Information Circular 106, 1986 and 1987 Florida Petroleum Production and Exploration. This report, prepared by Jacqueline M. Lloyd, discusses 1986 and 1987 oil and gas production and exploration. It includes 1986 and 1987 production and exploration tables. It also includes cumulative production statistics. This information is useful to the oil and gas industry and to the state in planning wise development and conservation of Florida's oil and gas resources. Respectfully yours, Walter Schmidt, Ph.D., P.G. State Geologist and Chief Florida Geological Survey iil
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Printed for the Florida Geological Survey Tallahassee 1989 ISSN 0085-0616 iv
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract .................................................................................. viii Acknowledgem ents................................ ..................................... viii Introduction .............................................................................. 1 1986 and 1987 Production.............................................................. 1 1986 and 1987 Onshore Drilling Activity............................................... 1 Field Development Drilling ......................................................... 1 O verview .............................................................. ............... 1 Northwest Florida Field Development Drilling .................................... 7 Bluff Springs Field Development................................................ 7 Jay Field Development .......................................................... 7 Mt. Carmel Field Development................................................. 11 Blackjack Creek Field Development.......................................... 11 McClellan Field Development................................................. 11 South Florida Field Development Drilling ....................................... 12 Corkscrew Field Development .................................................. 12 Raccoon Point Field Development............................................ 12 Exploratory Drilling.............................................................. ... 17 O verview ............................................................................. 17 Northwest Florida Exploratory Drilling........................................... 17 McClellan Field Discovery...................................................... 17 Coldwater Creek Field Discovery ............................................. 17 Other Northwest Florida Exploratory Drilling ................................. 19 South Florida Exploratory Drilling ............................................... 19 V
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Geophysical Exploration Activity ....................................................... 20 Exploration In Federal Waters, Offshore Florida .................................... 22 Background .................................... ....................................... 22 A ctivity ................................................................................. 22 P olicy .................................................................................. 22 Sum m ary................................................................................. 23 R eferences............................................................................... 27 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure Page 1. South Florida oil field location map ................................................. 2 2. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, south Florida .............................. .................................................. 3 3. Northwest Florida oil field location map............................................. 4 4. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, northwest Florid a .............................. .................................................. 5 5. Oil production decline, 1978 through 1987 ......................................... 6 6. 1986 and 1987 oil production comparison......................................... .8 7. Bluff Springs, Coldwater Creek, McClellan, and Sweetwater Creek fields location m ap ............................................................................... 9 8. Geophysical log correlation, Bluff Springs field..................................... 10 9. Mount Carmel field structure map, top of Norphlet Sandstone................... 13 10. Blackjack Creek field structure map, top of Smackover Formation ............... 14 11. Geophysical log correlation, McClellan field........................................ 15 12. Corkscrew and Lake Trafford fields structure map, top of Sunniland Formation 16 13. Raccoon Point structure map, top of Sunniland Formation....................... 18 14. 1986 and 1987 geophysical exploration activity .................................... 21 15. Florida portion of the 1987-1992 federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program ..................................................................... 24 16. Active leases and wells drilled during 1986 and 1987 in federal waters, offshore Florida ........................................................................ .25 vi
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TABLES Table Page 1. Jay field and state wide production decline......................................... 6 2. Geophysical survey mileage, 1984 through 1987................................. 20 APPENDICES Appendix Page 1. Florida oil field discovery well data................................................ 29 2. 1986, 1987 and cumulative production data........................................ 30 3. 1986 and 1987 field well statistics .................................................. 31 4. 1986 and 1987 field wells drilled .................................................... 32 5. 1986 and 1987 wildcat wells drilled................................................. 35 6. 1986 and 1987 geophysical exploration activity.................................. 37 7. 1986 and 1987 wells drilled in federal waters offshore Florida.................... 39 vii
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ABSTRACT Florida oil production declined during 1986 and 1987. Despite this state-wide decline, production increased in south Florida. A total of 14 field development wells were drilled during 1986 and 1987. Eleven were completed as potential producers. Three were plugged and abandoned as dry holes. The potential producers included development wells drilled at the recently discovered McClellan and Corkscrew fields. Successful wildcat drilling in northwest Florida led to the discoveries of McClellan and Coldwater Creek fields. With one exception, northwest Florida exploratory drilling was targeted for the Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation or Norphlet Sandstone. The exception was an Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Formation test well. South Florida wildcats targeted the Lower Cretaceous Sunniland Formation. Geophysical exploration concentrated in Florida's productive areas, the panhandle and south Florida. Two new areas were explored during 1986 and 1987. These were the offshore panhandle area and the central peninsula area. Offshore exploratory drilling in federal waters was slow during 1986 and 1987. This period marked the beginning of important policy-making negotiations and decisions by Florida's Governor Martinez. Negotiations with the Secretary of the U. S. Department of the Interior, Donald Hodol, resulted in greater protection for Florida's fragile coastal environments. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Several Florida Geological Survey staff members contributed to this report. Charles Tootle compiled oil field data and production statistics. The Oil and Gas Section maintains files on permitted exploratory and development drilling. Joan Ragland and Charles Tootle provided comments and assistance in using these files. Joan Ragland tabulated and assisted with the interpretation of the geophysical exploration permit data. Jim Jones and Ted Kiper drafted and photographed the figures. Paulette Bond, Joan Ragland, Frank Rupert, and Tom Scott edited the manuscript and suggested improvements. Debbie Tucker (Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, Florida) furnished copies of correspondence and press releases covering the Governor's policies on exploration for oil and gas in federal waters off Florida. She also provided publications and contacts within the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) offices where drilling data could be obtained. George Dellagiarino (MMS, Reston, Virginia) and David Cook (MMS, Metairie, Louisiana) provided the data for drilling in federal waters off Florida. viii
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 1986 AND 1987 FLORIDA PETROLEUM PRODUCTION AND EXPLORATION By Jacqueline M. Lloyd, P. G. #74 INTRODUCTION was discovered in 1970 and reached peak production in 1978. It accounts for about 59 percent There are two major oil producing areas in of the 1986 oil production total, about 57 percent Florida. One is the Sunniland trend in south Florida, of the1987 total, and about 71 percent of the cuthe other is the western panhandle area. The mulative total. Table 1 lists both state wide annual Sunniland trend includes 14 oil fields; the western oil production and Jay field annual oil production panhandle area Includes seven. Appendix 1 lists for 1978 through 1987. Figure 5 graphically illusthe discovery well data for these fields. trates these data, clearly showing Jay field's domThe Sunniland trend production began with Flortrnane n Florthese data, clearly showing Jay field's domida's first oil discovery at Sunniland field in September, 1943. Of the 14 Sunniland trend oil fields, Figure 6 is a histogram comparing 1986 oil pro10 are active, one is temporarily shut-in, and three duction with 1987 oil production for all Florida oil are plugged and abandoned. These fields are orifields except Jay field. Jay field data would obscure ented along a northwest-southeast trend through the information for all other fields since its producLee, Hendry, Collier, and Dade counties (Figure tion for 1986 was six times greater than that of 1). Production is principally from rudistid reefs West Felda field, the next most productive field in found in the upper one hundred feet of the Lower Florida. Its 1987 production was almost five times Cretaceous Sunniland Formation (Figure 2). greater. Overall, northwest Florida production deProduction in the western panhandle began with creased by 28 percent from 1986 to 1987, while the discovery of Jay field in June, 1970. The seven south Florida production Increased by 13 percent. panhandle oil fields are located in Escambia and The only fields in Florida which showed an increase Santa Rosa Counties, Florida (Figure 3). Five fields in production for these two years were located in are active, one is temporarily shut-in, and one is south Florida: West Felda field, Corkscrew field, plugged and abandoned. Production is from Upper and Mid-Felda field. Jurassic Smackover Formation carbonates and Norphlet Sandstone sands (Figure 4). 1986 and 1987 ONSHORE DRILLING 1986 AND 1987 ACTIVITY PRODUCTION Field Development Drilling Florida oil production began to decline in 1979 OVERVIEW and has continued to do so since then (Table 1 and Figure 5). Total oil production for 1986 was A total of 14 field development wells were drilled 9,382,973 barrels, down 18 percent from 1985. Oil during 1986 and 1987. A data summary for these production dropped another 12 percent during wells is given in Appendix 4. Eleven wells were 1987 for a 1987 total of 8,269,632 barrels. Appencompleted as successful potential producers, indix 2 lists 1986, 1987, and cumulative production cluding two wells each at the recently discovered statistics for each of Florida's oil fields including Corkscrew and McClellan fields. Three wells were oil, gas, and water production data. Appendix 3 plugged and abandoned as dry holes. Unfortulists 1986 and 1987 field well statistics including nately, this included a second attempt to confirm the number of production, injection, shut-in, and the discovery at Bluff Springs field in Escambia temporarily abandoned wells for each field. County, Florida. Field development wells were also Although Jay field production is declining, it condrilled at Jay, Mt. Carmel, Blackjack Creek, and tinues to dominate Florida oil production. The field Raccoon Point fields (Appendix 4). The following 1
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY S24E R2IE R28E E_ --E LEHIGH PARK TOWNSED CANAL i MID-PFELA HENORY CO. t I [ O. SJUNOCO-FELOA Sf CO. PALM I FIELD .9-;---T\ LAK TRAFFOtOD SUN LAN 0 SEMINOL.E S' BEAR IS4AND P EPPER IAMMOCKI S1 $ BAXTER ISLAND --_. ,BROWARD COLLIER CO. RAC OON POINT ; I 410 FORTY MILE BEND I' ;.-^ PLA -TN MONROE CO. T_ *|IIAC TIV( t. FIt 1 I 0 INAC I IV O F Il 0 ,, "A'""N 'f. ^ 10 KM O ---"';CALL IO Mil S Figure 1. South Florida oil field location map. 2
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 S STAGE GROUPS AND FORMATIONS LITHOLOGY >RATTLESNAKE HAMMOCK i FORMATION ,AAAAAAAAAAAAA M, LAKE TRAFFORD <= FORMATION / z z z 0 SUNNILAND FORMATION PUNTA GORDA ANHYDRITE AAAAAAAAA\AAAA SAAAAAAAAAAAAA .APTIAN -"I-----------_ 0 ABLE MEMBER 1AAAAAAAAAAA .2 C. TWELVE MILE BROWN r o <:MEMBER DOLOMITE SI I ZONE Q: 0-W ox( --i: w j 9 0 0 o J WEST FELDA SHALE PUMPKIN BAY FORMATION "AAAAAAAAAA ---------AAAAAAAAAAAAA BARRIAMIAN .. HAUTERIVIAN VALANGINIAN BONE ISLAND FORMATION BERRIASIAN I 1 AAAAAAAAAAAAA LAAAAAAAAAAAAA LAAAAAAAAAAAAA A AAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0); WOOD RIVER FORMATION ^A^. AA TITHONIAN (A I I I I I .::::::: ::::::::: :::::: BASAL .. ; ....... .... LIMESTONE DOLOMITE SSHALE f:l CLASTICS I ANHYDRITE Figure 2. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, south Florida. 3
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY R33W R32W R31W R R RI R? \ .-T. CARMEL FIELD S ....'....-.... .... McCLELLAN IELD / BLUFF SPRINGS FIELD J JAY FIEO SWGEET WATER iLACKJACK : ( ,CREEK FIELDO __-_ --I EILANATION & ACTIVE OIL FIELD INACTIVE OIL FIELD 4(".=4 \ I CANTONMENT ';CALL WES PENSACOLA -..1NIACOLA / Figure 3. Northwest Florida oil field location map. 4
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 SYSTEM STAGE GROUPS AND FORMATIONS LITHOLOGY LOWER CRETACEOUS BERRIASIAN .!.. !!. COTTON VALLEY i....... GROUP...... S ...1ooo1. .o... ....... .. TITHONIAN UNDIFFERENTIATED .......... UPPER HAYNESVILLE KIMMERIDGIAN FORMATION UPPER::::: : JURASSIC -----:AAAAAA ...AAAAAAAAAAA BUCKNER *AAAAAAAAAA MEMBER AAAAAAAAAAAA LOWER (LOWER KIMMERIDGIAN HAYNESVILLE ',1.... ...... KIMMERIGIAN FFORMATION ION OXFORDIAN _______________________ NORPHLET SANDSTONE K i ^i JURASSIC CALLOVIAN LOUANN SALT KIMMERISANDSTONE SSILLTSTONE SHALE r LIMESTONE DOLOMITE CONGLOMERATE FORAI z Z z z z SSMACKOVER gi CLASTICS ANHYDRITE SALT Figure 4. Stratigraphic nomenclature, Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, northwest Florida. 5
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Table 1. Jay Field and State Wide Production Declines. JAY FIELD PRODUCTION STATE WIDE PRODUCTION % Decrease Oil Prod., from Oil Prod., % Decrease Year Barrels Previous Yr. Barrels from Previous Yr. 1978 36,080,383 47,536,191 1979 36,075,891 0.01 47,167,861 0.77 1980 31,905,545 11.56 42,886,498 9.08 1981 24,972,497 21.73 34,743,513 18.99 1982 16,750,425 32.92 25,623,366 26.25 1983 12,530,827 25.19 19,475,574 23.99 1984 8,769,649 30.02 14,461,969 25.74 1985 6,358,259 27.50 11,457,913 20.77 1986 5,518,771 13.20 9,382,973 18.11 1987 4,676,964 15.15 8,269,632 11.87 r 4 Joy I ield | U 5 ,Stote Wide 1 1 1 /; 1'8( ()K' 1984 1986 1'l P/ I'M 1 98 1985 198/ Figure 5. Oil production decline, 1978 through 1987. 6
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 108 text discusses the 1986 and 1987 field developOwnership of the discovery well transferred to ment drilling by field. Discovery data, Initial proHughes Eastern Corporation in 1985. Permits were ductlon, and available geologic Information Is Issued to Hughes Eastern to drill two offsets, one included for each of these fields. east and one southeast of the discovery well (permits 1204 and 1205, Figure 7). Given the results of the offset to the northwest, presumably Hughes hoped to find the Smackover at structurally higher NORTHWEST FLORIDA FIELD positions In these new offsets. Permit 1204 was DEVELOPMENT DRILLING completed in August 1986. They drilled permit 1204 and the Smackover was again found at a structurBluff Springs Field Development ally lower position (Figure 8) -this time 44 feet lower. Two zones of salt water production were Bluff Springs field was discovered on March 25, also encountered (16,208 to -16,211 feet MSL 1984. The discovery well, the Stone Petroleum and -16,215 to -16,223 feet MSL; Figure 8). LSS Corporation -St. Regis Paper Company number core analysis yielded mean porosity estimates of 29-4 (permit 1125) was a rank wildcat located in 23.9 and 13.6 percent, respectively, and no indiSection 29, T5N, R31W, Escambla County, apcations of oil. The third offset, permit 1205, has not proximately 10 miles west-southwest of Jay field been drilled. and approximately four miles southeast of the nearest previously drilled wildcat, permit 1177 (Figure Jay Field Development 7 and Appendix 1 In this report; see also Lloyd and Jay Feld Development Applegate, 1987). This area, west and southwest Jay field (Figure 3) was discovered in June, of Jay, is known to be underlain by Louann Salt 1970, by the drilling of the Humble St. Regis numwith seismic studies indicating salt-Induced fault ber 1 (permit 417) in Section 43, T5N, R29W, Santa structures In the overlying formations (Lloyd and Rosa County (Appendix 1). The well produced from Applegate, 1987). the Smackover Formation from -15,266 to The discovery well produced 477 barrels of oil -15,320 feet MSL. The initial production test and 170 barrels of saltwater per day. Oil gravity yielded 1712 barrels of 50.7' A.P.I. gravity oil and was 57.00 A.P.I.. Production is from Jurassic-age 23 barrels of saltwater per day. Smackover Formation dolomites from -16,154 to Jay field is located within the "Jay trend" of Es-16,161 feet mean sea level (MSL) (Figure 8). cambia and Santa Rosa Counties, Florida and EsThese dolomites are dark, fine grained, microcryscambia County, Alabama. The northern extension talline and show evidence of recrystallization from of Jay, In Escambla County, is the Little Escambia originally oolitic and possibly pelletal facles (Lloyd, Creek (LEC) field. Other fields within the trend in1986; Lloyd and Applegate, 1987). clude Mt. Carmel, Coldwater Creek, and Blackjack The first offset, permit 1136 (Stone Petroleum Creek fields in Florida and Fanny Church, FlomCorporation -St. Regis Paper Company 29-3), iraton, and Big Escambia Creek fields in Alabama. located about one-half mile northwest of the disThe fields are located along a normal fault complex covery well (Figure 7). The Smackover Formation (the Foshee Fault System) which rims the Gulf was encountered at -16,171 feet MSL, structurally Coast to the west through Alabama, Mississippi, 17 feet lower than in the discovery well (Figure 8). Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Oil accumulation The well produced only saltwater from two thin at Jay is within an asymmetrically shaped anticline zones (16,182 to -16,185 feet MSL and with the fault complex forming the eastern barrier -16,192 to -16,195 feet MSL; Figure 8) within to oil migration (Applegate and Lloyd, 1985). the upper Smackover. Core analysis by Location The northern seal of Jay field is formed by a Sample Service, Inc. (LSS), Jackson, Mississippi, porosity barrier in Alabama where the lithology yielded mean porosity estimates for these zones changes from porous dolomite to dense, micritic of 11.4 and 8.4 percent, respectively. LSS found a limestone. The porosity at Jay field is due to dotrace of oil In one sample at -16,185 feet MSL. lomitization of the pelletal grainstones in the upper This well was apparently located too low on the regressive section of the Smackover Formation. structure and was plugged and abandoned as a Dolomitization, fresh water leaching, and an andry hole on July 20, 1984. hydrite cap rock (Buckner Member of the Haynes7
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1000 --00 7 1986 S| 1987 -800 400 200 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 ACIVE FLORIDA OL HELDS EXCLUDNG JAY 2 West Felda 9 Corkscrew 3 Blackjack Creek 10 Mid-Fclda 4 Raccoon Point 11 Townsend Canal 5 Bear Island 12 Sunniland 6 Lehigh Park 13 Mt. Carmel 7 Sunoco Felda 14 McClilelan 8 Bluff Springs 15 Lake Trafford Figure 6. 1986 and 1987 oil production comparison (excluding field number 1-Jay field). 8
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THIS AREA NOT CONTOURED2 112I'%.^. 1. ir77s COL WATER CREEK FIELD SWEETWATER CREEK FIELD I JY FI ELD' ", O00,. BLACKJACK CREEK FIELD Z 609+ S. 0W. DRY HOLE -PLUGGED & ABANDONED PRODUCER 0 PERMITTED LOCATION Figure 7. Bluff Springs, Coldwater Creek, McClellan, and Sweetwater Creek fields location map showing generalized structure, top of Smackover Formation (modified from Lloyd and Applegate, 1987).
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-0 SUCKNER AN Y ...... ... ... .. MEAN42 POROS7ITY*E0 f 0 SM C O R. ....... ...,. FORMATION ...... ".. Dual Induction Focused Log BHC Acoustilog Compensated Neutron Utho Density .Dual Inductlon-SFLIQemma Ray Figure 8. Geophysical log correlation, Bluff Springs field.
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 ville Formation, Figure 4) have helped form a log and core analysis of the Smackover Formation complex, extensive reservoir. Numerous analyses indicated "extremely low porosities and permeaof the Jay area Smackover, including comparisons bilities." They believed that no further production with modern carbonate environments, have been potential existed and the well was plugged and made in attempts to understand this complex resabandoned. The reentry (permit 1219) is still conervoir (Ottman et al., 1973 and 1976; Sigsby, 1976, fidential. Information explaining why LL&E decided Mancini and Benson, 1980; Lomando et al., 1981; that the well indeed did have production potential Vinet, 1984; Moore, 1984; Bradford, 1984; Lloyd has not been released. The well was completed et al., 1986). as a potential producer on April 22, 1988. Despite the complexity of the Jay field Smackover Formation reservoir, exploration and develBlackjack Creek Field Development opment of the field has been extremely successful.ack Creek field discove well was the Core analyses were combined with bottom hole Theb OBla Creekfined dscoeryeg Pae pressure data, porosity log information, and other Company 13-3 well (permit 523) drilled in Section Company 13-3 well (permit 523) drilled in Section geologic data to arrive at a highly successful res13, T4N, R29W, Santa Rosa County, about eight ervoir management program (Shirer et al., 1978; miles southeast of Jay field. The well was comLangston et al., 1981; Langston and Shirer, 1985). pleted February 14, 1972, as a producer in the Five new development wells were drilled at Jay field during 1986 and 1987 (Appendix 4). All five Norphlet Sandstone from -15,965 to -15,975 MSL. Initial production was 371 barrels of 51.30 were successfully completed as potential producA.P.I. gravity oil and 4.5 barrels of saltwater per ers. Only 13 dry holes have been drilled at Jay gravity oil and 4.5 barrels of saltwater producfield, compared with 119 producing wells, through tion from the Norphlet Sandstone, the well was January 1988. recompleted as a Smackover Formation producer Mt. Carmel Field Development from -15,635 to -15,745 feet MSL. The initial production test from the Smackover, on January Mt. Carmel field was discovered in December, 22, 1975, yielded 1,428 barrels of 51.20 A.P.I. grav1971 by the Louisiana Land and Exploration Comity oil and no saltwater. pany (LL & E). The discovery well was the LL & E Blackjack Creek field now produces primarily -Finley Heirs 39-3 (P-504), located about one mile from dolomitized oolites of the Smackover Foreast of Jay field in Section 39, T5N, R29W, Santa mation (Applegate and Lloyd, 1985). About Rosa County (Figure 9). Initial production was 160,000 barrels of oil have been produced from 1,440 barrels of 470 A.P.I. gravity oil per day with the Norphlet Sandstone. The remaining producno saltwater. tion, 53,343,000 barrels through December 1987, It is separated from Jay by the Foshee Fault is from the Smackover. The trapping structure is System (Figure 9). Production is from both the an anticline located on the downthrown, southwest Smackover Formation and the Norphlet Sandside of the regional Foshee Fault System (Figure stone. Dual reservoir production and complex ge10). Similar to Jay field, Blackjack Creek has been ometry have apparently made development of this carefully cored and analyzed to achieve a sucfield more difficult. As of January, 1988, three processful reservoir management and development ducing wells and 10 dry holes had been drilled at program. Through January, 1988, 20 producing Mt. Carmel field. wells had been drilled at Blackjack Creek. Only five Two wells were spudded duringi 987. One (perdry holes had been drilled. This dry hole count mit 1219) was completed as a potential producer; includes the most recent well drilled. Permit 1188 the other (permit 1221) was plugged and aban(Appendix 4) was drilled by Exxon Corporation and doned as a dry hole (Appendix 4). Permit 1219 was was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole on actually a reentry of an older well that produced oil March 7, 1986. from 1973 through 1982. The older well (permit 660) produced about 1.7 million barrels of oil from McClellan Field Development the Norphlet Sandstone before going to 100 percent saltwater. At that time, the operator (Louisiana McClellan field was discovered on February 19, Land and Exploration Company, LL&E) stated that 1986 (Figure 7, Appendix 1). The discovery well, 11
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Exxon Corporation -State of Florida number 33-1 19, 1985 with an initial swab test of the R.K. Pe(permit 1194, Appendices 1 and 5) is located about troleum -Rex Properties number 33-2 (permit 3.25 miles north of the abandoned Sweetwater 1170, Figure 12). Corkscrew field is located about Creek field in Section 33, T6N, R26W, Santa Rosa two and one-half miles north and slightly west of County. McClellan field is located within the area the one-well Lake Trafford field in Collier County, known to be underlain by the Louann Salt and may Florida (Figures 1 and 12). In its initial test, the have a salt-related trap structure. It is also located discovery well produced 435 barrels of oil per day within a few miles of the approximated updip limits (with no saltwater) from open hole in the Sunniland of the Smackover Formation (Figure 7 in this report; at -11,547 to -11,565 feet (11,502 to -11,520 see also Applegate et al., 1978; Ottman et al., 1973 feet MSL). Oil gravity was 250 A.P.I. and 1976), thus, the trap could be a stratigraphic Core analysis by Analytical Logging, Inc. (Ft. pinchout. Currently released data does not reveal Core analysis by Analytical Logging, Inc. (Ft. which trap mechanism produced the Smackover Myers, Florida) indicated an oil producing zone reservoir for this field. from -11,506 to -11,515 feet MSL. The zone An initial flowing test of the McClellan field diswas described as a "fossil-hash" of dolomitic limecovery well produced 152 barrels of 410 A.P.I. gravstone with an average porosity of 1525 percent. ity oil per day and no saltwater. Production is from The first offset and confirmation well was the R. Smackover Formation dolomites from -13,828 to K. Petroleum -Alico, Inc. number 32-1 (permit -13845 feet MSL (Figure 11). Core analysis of a 1199). It is located about one-third mile west of the potential oil and gas productive zone from -13,819 discovery well (Figure 12, Appendix 4). It was comto -13,845 feet MSL by Core Laboratories, Inc. pleted as a potential producer on May 2, 1986. The (Dallas, Texas) indicated a mean porosity of 12.3 initial production test on June 9, 1986 yielded 424 percent. The analysis showed additional oil and barrels of 26 A.P.I. oil per day and no saltwater. gas production potential between -13,854 and The Sunniland was encountered at -11,489 feet -13863 feet MSL. Mean porosity is about 15 perMSL; a porous zone was encountered at -11,504 -13,863 feet MSL. Mean porosity is about 15 perfeet MSL. Production is from open hole in the Suncent for this zone. Both of the analyzed zones cont MSL Production from open hole in the Suntained dark, fine grained, micro-crystalline niland Formation from -11,503 to -11,511 feet dolomites with vuggy porosity. MSL. The first offset and confirmation well was Exxon Permit 1201, the R.K. Petroleum -Bernice D. Corporation -State of Florida number 34-2 (permit Pepper number 28-3 (Figure 12, Appendix 4) was 1206). It is located about one-half mile east of the drilled as a north outpost to the Corkscrew discovdiscovery well. It was tested on March 9, 1987 and ery well. Its surface location is about one-half mile flowed 641 barrels of 43.4 A.P.I. gravity oil and 24 north-northeast of the discovery. The bottom hole barrels of saltwater per day. The Smackover Forlocation is about 1000 feet west of the surface mation was encountered at -13,788 feet MSL, 27 location. Apparently, it did not encounter the exfeet higher than in the discovery well (Figure 11). pected Sunniland pay zone. It was plugged back Production is from the Smackover Formation from to -8955 feet MSL and sidetracked as permit -13,797 to -13,847 feet MSL. Core analysis by 1201A. The bottom hole location in the sidetracked All Points, Inc. (Houston, Texas) yielded a mean hole is about 800 feet west of the surface hole All Points, Inc. (Houston, Texas) yielded a mean location. The sidetracked well pumped 218 barrels porosity of 11.5 percent for the productive zone. ocato The sidetracked well pumped 218 barrels A second offset to the discovery well, Exxon of oil per day (with no saltwater) from open hole in Corporation -State of Florida number 34-2 (permit the Sunniland Formation from -11,501 to 1226) was drilled approximately one-half mile north -11,519 feet MSL. Similar to the producing zone of the discovery well (Figure 7). This well was of the discovery well, Analytical Logging, Inc. (Ft. completed as a potential producer on November Myers, Florida) described a core from this zone as 2. 1987. Additional information on this well is still a bioclastic, fossil-hash of dolomitic limestone. confidential. SOUTH FLORIDA FIELD Raccoon Point Field Development DEVELOPMENT DRILLING Raccoon Point field is the southeastern-most active field in the Sunniland trend (Figure 1). The field Corkscrew Field Development was discovered on June 20, 1978 (Appendix 1) Corkscrew field was discovered on November and has been rapidly developed. The discovery 12
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 MOUNT CARMEL FIELD 34 35 Santa Rosa County, Florida SU STRUCTURE MAP TOP SD \ OF NORPHLET SANDSTONE (Jim Miller, 1974) ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA ANTA ROSA COUNTY FLORIDA 29 28 0 2000 FEET \\\ \2 0 600 METERS S\\ 1430 DU\ I S 1219 60 2 \ o \, ,61 0 1 -147 70 \ 75 632 PERMIT NUMBER C T \974 -14770 DEPTH 14770 BOTTOM HOLE LOCATION 1o SABANDONED LOCATION T 2 313
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY I 1 BLACKJACK CREEK FIELD 3 2 I Santa Rosa County, Florida D STRUCTURE MAP TOP OF SMACKOVER FORMATION 00? 1 2 1 0 4000 FEET to 29 .12 ,-,86 -15097 0 1200 METERS ( -15721 687 -1 e 581 \\ -1760 N 988 N 622 -1S630 ? S144 583 659 \ .14 *-15604, *-1B659 \ 1 i 886 S-15024 988A *-155 \1 17 \ .-572 *-.15627\ \ 52 693 " -15701 01110 5558 \ 636 D 2-15661 2 123 678 62316 D 20 578 \ -18714 o -15700 ._ -.. \ • a,, ., -728 .....\.\ 1 -, ,1.. '8-lS73s o/ \ PRODUCER 0 .*. ./\ BOTTOM HOLE LOCATION '58o00 o .*..*.o .. A2 _. _.7 / '"i-15613 DRY HOLE 77 ? JUNKED HOLE -157-o' *' WATER INJECTION WELL .--** OIL WATER CONTACT 518 PERMIT NUMBER -15714 DEPTH C. I. 50 FEET 31 32 I T3N Figure 10. Blackjack Creek field structure map, top of Smackover Formation (after Blackjack Creek Geological Committee, 1974.) 14
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-, ,41LJI ... .,-'" i.. I BUCKNER i... .ANHYDRITE -.4.... ... .I 12.3% POROSITY 11.5% .. ...I ...... .... .a z........ .. ... SMACKOVER .. ... SFORMATION ........ .. -TENSION ENSIIN I CURYSi... Dual Induction-SFL/Gamma Ray Dual Induction-SFL/Gamma Ray Figure 11. Geophysical log correlation, McClellan field.
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CORKSCREW AND LAKE TRAFFORD FIELDS COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA STRUCTURE MAP TOP OF SUNNILAND FORMATION I(
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 well was the Exxon -Oleum Corporation number Coldwater Creek Field Discovery 33-4 (permit 829) drilled in Section 33, T51S, Coldwater Creek field was discovered on June R43E, Collier County (Appendix 1). Initial produc4, 1988. The discovery well was a reentry of a tion was from the -11,372 to -11,376 foot MSL Smackover wildcat. The original permit was issued interval of the Sunniland Formation. The first relito Inexco Oil Company (permit 1173, Appendix 5, able production test was made on June 20, 1978, Figure 7). The location is about two miles east of when the discovery well pumped 57 barrels of 23.3 the southern portion of Jay field in Section 26, A.P.I. gravity oil and 845 barrels of saltwater per Township 5 North, Range 29 West. Inexco began day. drilling in November, 1985. They drilled the well to Applegate and Lloyd (1985) published a prelima total depth of -15,407 feet MSL, logged the well, inary structure map of the top of the Sunniland and recommended plugging and abandonment. Formation for Raccoon Point field. Several wells The top of the Smackover Formation had been have been released from confidential status since encountered at -14,969 feet MSL; the Norphlet that time. Figure 13 is an updated structure map Sandstone at -15,331 feet MSL. Side wall core for the field and indicates a dome trending northanalyses by Location Sample Service, Inc. (Jackwest-southeast. The new data provides more detail son, Mississippi) indicated a potential oil productive for the top of the structure; however, the limits of zone from -14,985 to -15,016 feet MSL. Mean pothe field are still undefined. rosity of the zone was about 14.8 percent. One producing well was completed at Raccoon Analysis of the same interval by Charles Tootle Point during 1986 (permit 1190, Appendix 4). A (Florida Geological Survey, unpublished data, total of 15 producing wells have been drilled. No 1986) yielded a mean porosity of about 12 percent, dry holes have been drilled in the Raccoon Point an original oil in place estimate of 2,080,107 barfield area. rels, and a recoverable oil estimate of 312,016 bar, rels. Tootle (personal communication, 1988) Exploratory Drilling believes that there might not be enough recoverOVERVIEW able oil for economical production. This interpreS. tation is based on current oil prices and operating A total of 12 wildcat wells were drilled during costs (the oil contains hydrogen sulfide which 1986 and 1987 (Appendix 5). Nine of these were would add significantly to operating costs). drilled in northwest Florida; the remaining three LL&E took over operations on January 10, 1986. were drilled in south Florida. Two wells were cornThey considered completing the well, however, pleted as potential producers. These were the disthey decided to plug and abandon it. The plugging covery wells for McClellan and Coldwater Creek procedures were completed by January 18, 1986 fields. Both fields are located in northwest Florida procedures wer e completed by January 18, 1986. Another operator, Bruxoil, Inc., then took over reand produce from the Smackover Formation (Figsponsibility for the well. They received a permit to ures 3 and 7, Appendix 1). shoot a seismic line across the area (geophysical permit G-70-86, Appendix 6). The purpose was to ORTHWEST FLORY RIDALLING determine whether to reenter the existing well or EXPLORATORY DRILLING drill at a new location. They decided not to reenter the well and have not submitted any permit appliMcClellan Field Discovery cations to drill in the vicinity. McClellan field was discovered on February 15, In 1987, Red Rock Oil and Minerals Corporation, 1986 with the initial testing of the Exxon Corporeceived permit 1220 (Appendix 5 and Figure 7) to ration -State of Florida number 33-1 (permit 1194, reenter the well, believing that it did have economic Appendices 1 and 5, Figure 7). Two successful potential. They completed redrilling on May 24, development wells (permits 1206 and 1226, Ap1987 and ran the first production test on June 4, pendix 4, Figure 7) were drilled during 1987. 1988. Details of the test have not been released. McClellan field discovery and development history Production is from the zone discussed above, from is discussed in greater detail in the field develop-14,985 to -15,016 feet MSL in the Smackover Forment section of this report. mation. Production has been intermittent. 17
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RACCOON POINT FIELD I 2;1 22 Collier County, Florida | 1167 STRUCTURE MAP e TOP OF SUNNILAND FORMATION 0 2000 4000 FEET 11I 6 ,, 0116 0 600 1200 METERS 4 -11334 28 7 27 26 25 CI.-11330 -11314 0 FEET 829 01061 1082 928 SPRODUCERRD CO BsTTM HOLE LOCATIONDADE C. fl SALT ATER 4 4 )2 99998 I1190 0 -1 \-11360 18 C.1 1. 10 FEET -11360 DEPTH TO TOP OF
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 Other Northwest Florida trend oil fields produce from an area that is about Exploratory Drilling 145 miles long and 12 miles wide (Figure 1 in this The remaining northwest Florida wildcats were report; see also Applegate and Pontigo, 1984). Bioged reaind andonedst Fri hls (pen clastic limestones in the upper Sunniland Formaplugged and abandoned as dry holes (Appendix tion form oil producing highs on the trend. The 5). They were Smackover Formation or Norphlet highs are bioherms composed of rudistids, algal Sandstone test wells, with one exception which tested the Tuscaloosa Formation. plates, foraminifera and pelletal debris and are tested the Tuscaloosa Formation. p Permit 1229, the Pruet Production Companyquite porous and permeable. They grade laterally ampio nt ia 1 into miliolid-rich, non-porous, light-colored limeChampion International number 35-4, had the Upstones (Applegate and Pontigo, 1984). per Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Formation as its target. Geochemical analysis by Applegate and Pontigo The Pruet well is located between Jay and Mt. aruetl fells is lante b tny and Mt. (1984) confirmed that the source for the Sunniland structurally complex area associated with the trend's oil is a dark-colored micritic limestone facies Foshee Fault System (Figurea associaterest in the found in the lower Sunniland Formation. Their geoFoshee Fault System (Figure 9). Interest in the .i i Tuscaloosa Formation in this particular area is logic investigations indicate that the dark-colored probably due to the recent discovery of the Foshee from the producing trend. In addition, permeability field in Escambia County, Alabama (Montgomery, downdip (to the southwest) appears too low for 1987). The Foshee field was discovered on the hydrocarbon migration. They conclude that proupthrown side of a normal fault associated with the duction can be exected to occur where the porous Foshee Fault System. The field produces from thee exposed with the organic-rich, darkunits are juxtaposed with the organic-rich, darkLower Tuscaloosa. The Lower Tuscaloosa is procolored micrites. This has occurred along the "reefductive at several other fields in southwestern Altrend" (the current producing trend consisting of abama. The other fields, however, are widely rudistid-bioherm reservoirs). scattered and were all opened more than 30 years Applegate and Pontigo (1984) conclude that new ago. The Foshee field has uniquely high gravity oil uland oi o t cuet p ( o ae d to oe U r Crea-Sunniland discoveries away from the currently pro(40-42o A.P.I.) compared to other Upper Cretaducing trend can be expected downdip only if new ceous fields in southwestern Alabama. Gravities in the area range zones of suitable porosity are found in conjunction for other Upper Cretaceous field in the area rangemicrite facies. Exploration updip from from less than 200 to approximately 300 A.P.I. (Montgomery, 1987; Sexton, 1986; Mancini and the producing trend has been sparse and unsucPayton, 1981). Montgomery (1987) states that this cessful. As pointed out by Montgomery (1987), the may indicate that the oil at Foshee field originated total area within the Sunniland trend is fairly large from a deeper source and migrated along fault (about 1,500 square miles) and well control is low. planes associated with the Foshee Fault System. The best overall exploration approach appears to Montgomery (1987) notes that this discovery set be identification of paleoenvironment and facies off strong interest in the Tuscaloosa in southwestchanges within and immediately adjacent to the ern Alabama and possibly in Santa Rosa County, productive trend (Montgomery, 1987). Florida. The drilling of permit 1229 supports the Three wildcat wells were drilled in south Florida latter part of his statement. The location was probduring the 1986-1987 period (Appendix 5). All three ably chosen in the hopes of finding high gravity oil were plugged and abandoned as dry holes. As associated with fault-plane migration as was the expected, the Sunniland Formation was the target case at Foshee field in Alabama. Unfortunately, for production in all three cases. Unexpected was the well was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole the location of the J. M. Huber Corporation -Lykes on January 14, 1988. Brothers number 26-2 (permit 1193). This well is located in Section 26, Township 39 South, Range 31 East, in Glades County, Florida approximately SOUTH FLORIDA 6.6 miles northeast of the nearest Sunniland proEXPLORATORY DRILLING duction at the Townsend Canal field. Only two other The Sunniland Formation is the only petroleum wells have been drilled in Glades County. Both producing horizon in South Florida. The Sunniland were drilled in the 1950's and were dry holes. 19
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOPHYSICAL continued interest in this area. The withdrawn apEXPLORATION plication included a request to conduct a Vibroseis ACTIVITY survey covering 100 miles in Columbia, Lafayette, and Suwannee Counties. Previously permitted surTwenty applications for geophysical permits veys in 1984 and 1985 covered 100 miles of Viwere received during 1986; 16 were received durbroseis lines in Jackson, Madison, Hamilton, and ing 1987. Of these 36 applications, 32 have been Columbia Counties. permitted, three were withdrawn by the applicants, Table 2 summarizes geophysical survey mileage and one is still being processed (Appendix 6). Figfor 1984 through 1987 permits. The 1986 peak in ure 14 shows the areas covered by these permits. geophysical survey mileage is due to the inclusion Geophysical exploration during 1986 included of the 2,330 miles of offshore survey. Panhandle the first permitted offshore seismic activity in onshore exploration peaked in 1985 with 1,067.5 Florida state waters. Two airgun surveys were miles approved and eventually surveyed. Survey completed covering 2,330 miles of seismic lines off mileage in this region was significantly lower in the coast of the panhandle. Another previously 1986 and 1987. unpermitted area, in the central peninsula of The value for completed south Florida exploraFlorida, was explored in 1987. It included 124 miles tion during 1987 is low because several surveys of Vibroseis survey in Citrus, Hernando, Lake, are pending for this area. An additional 370.43 Pasco, and Sumter Counties. miles of survey are pending from 1987 applications: A single application was received for exploration two approved permits covering 171.43 miles have in the northern peninsula. Although this application not been surveyed and an additional application was later withdrawn by the applicant, it indicates including 199 miles is still being processed. Table 2. Geophysical Survey Mileage, 1984 through 1987. COMPLETED GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS 1984 1985 1986 1987 Area Total Total Total Total North Peninsula 48.00 52.00 0.00 0.00 Central Peninsula 0.00 0.00 0.00 124.00 South Florida 22.00 392.25 463.20 25.00 Panhandle Onshore 570.50 1,067.50 236.60 209.35 Panhandle Offshore 0.00 0.00 2,330.00 0.00 *Completed 640.50 1,511.75 3,029.80 358.35 PENDING GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS South Florida 4.00 0.00 0.00 370.43 Panhandle Onshore 37.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 Panhandle Offshore 0.00 350.00 0.00 314.00 Pending 41.00 350.00 0.00 694.43 TOTALS: COMPLETED AND PENDING GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS Completed + Pending 681.50 1,861.75 3,029.80 1,052.78 "NOTE: Mileage for a completed geophysical survey is totaled under the year that the application for a geophysical permit was received. Actual survey may have been completed during a subsequent year. 20
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 .N EXPLANATION ^ PERMITTED AND SURVEYED PERMITTED, NOT SURVEYED APPLICATION RECIEVED, NOT PERMITTED SCALE 0 30 60 MILES 0 50 100 KILOMETERS STATE OF FLORIDA 1986-87 GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION Figure 14. 1986 and 1987 geophysical exploration activity. 21
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Overall, geophysical exploration was steady durand 94, held in January, 1984 and January, 1985, ing this period in Florida. New areas were explored respectively. These lease sales are discussed in during 1986 and 1987. These were the offshore Applegate and Lloyd (1985) and Lloyd and Applepanhandle area and the central peninsula area. gate (1987). Active leases in the Eastern Planning Interest in Florida's oil producing areas, the panArea are shown on Figure 16. handle and south Florida, remains fairly constant. Seven wells were drilled off Florida during 1986 There is also a constant interest in the northern and 1987. Appendix 7 includes data on these wells. peninsula area (Table 2 and Figure 14 in this report; Four of the wells were in the Destin Dome and see also Applegate and Lloyd, 1985; Lloyd and Pensacola areas, where the principle drilling tarApplegate, 1987). gets are the Smackover Formation and the Norphlet Sandstone (Figure 4). Of the two Destin EXPLORATION IN Dome wells, one was plugged and abandoned and FEDERAL WATERS, the other temporarily abandoned. One of the PenOFFSHORE FLORIDA sacola area wells was simply a sidetrack hole of the other. These were temporarily abandoned. Background State ownership of the continental shelf off FlorThe remaining three wells were located in the ida extends three miles into the Atlantic Ocean and Charlotte Harbor, Desoto Canyon, and Florida Midabout 10.5 miles (three marine leagues) into the die Ground areas. Cretaceous limestones and doGulf of Mexico. The federal government controls lomites are the principle targets in these areas. All resources beyond these state boundaries out to three of these wells were plugged and abandoned 200 miles. The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is a as dry holes. jurisdictional term that describes the offshore area The federal government classifies offshore well which is under control of the federal government, completions as "producible" and "other." Produ"Federal waters," in this context, does not refer to cible zone completions include both producing and ownership, but rather to responsibility (Johnson shut-in wells. Shut-in completions are those temand Tucker, 1987). porarily taken out of production pending either reFor planning purposes, the federal government pairs or major or minor workovers. Other zone divides the OCS into planning areas. Three plancompletions include service wells and "not restorning areas surround Florida: the Eastern Planning able" completions. Not restorable completions are Area, the Straits of Florida, and the South Atlantic judged not capable of production and are to be Planning area (Figure 15). The planning areas are plugged and abandoned and permanently sealed further subdivided into "map areas" (for example, (Harris, 1988). Both Destin Dome wells were classPensacola Area, Destin Dome Area, Desoto Canified as producible. The Charlotte Harbor, Desoto yon Area) and "blocks." A three-square-mile block Canyon, and Florida Middle Ground wells were dry is the actual leasing unit used by the Department holes and thus are classified as not restorable. The of the Interior (Johnson and Tucker, 1987). Pensacola area well has not been classified yet. Activity Policy The first federal oil and gas lease sale off Florida Recent years have been a critical period for offwas conducted in May, 1959 off the Florida keys shore exploration policy decisions. The five-year in what is now the Straits of Florida Planning Area. (1987-1992) Federal Outer Continental Shelf Oil Ten additional OCS lease sales have occurred and Gas Leasing Program was finalized. Governor since then; seven in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Martinez's negotiations with the federal governPlanning Area and three in the South Atlantic Planment concerning this program reflected Florida's ning area. There have been no sales in the Straits strong environmental policies and his belief that of Florida Planning Area since the 1959 sale. The "oil and gas activities must not be allowed at the last lease sale in the South Atlantic Planning Area expense of our unique and sensitive resources" off Florida was Sale 78 in July, 1983. (Governor Martinez, March 3, 1987 letter to SecThe two most recent lease sales off Florida were retary of the Interior, Donald Hodel). in the Eastern Planning Area. They were Sales 79 When the five-year oil and gas leasing plan was 22
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 proposed by the Secretary of the Interior Donald In June 1988, Hodel agreed to remove 14 million Hodel, Governor Martinez expressed his concerns acres in the same area (south of 260 north latitude) to both Hodel and to President Reagan. He refrom the November 1988 lease sale (Figure 15). quested that sensitive areas off Apalachicola Bay Martinez and Hodel appointed two task forces to in northwest Florida, Florida Bay and the Florida assess the environmental impact of proposed drillKeys be removed from the plan. In August 1987, ing in previously leased areas. One task force will the Governor filed a petition for judicial review in assess the risk posed by oil spills and will deterfederal court of the Department of the Interior's 5mine the directions spilled oil would be carried by year leasing plan because these areas were not winds and currents. The second task force will asremoved (Press Release, Office of the Governor, sess the impact of drilling on marine and coastal August 14, 1987). resources (Press Release, Office of the Governor, In January 1988, Secretary Hodel accompanied June 16, 1988). President George Bush estabGovernor Martinez on a snorkeling trip to the Florlished an additional federal task force to review ida Keys. The Governor was able to show Secredrilling and leasing in this area. This task force tary Hodel "exactly what it is that we in Florida are report is due to the president in January 1990. fighting to protect." The following March, the SecThere will be no leasing and probably no drilling in retary of the Interior agreed to remove 11 million the area until then (Deborah Tucker, 1989, peracres of sensitive habitat around Florida Bay and sonal communication). the Keys from further consideration of leasing under the 5-year plan (Figure 15). The Secretary further agreed to require a one-year study before any SUMMARY drilling could take place in an area of "special concern" off Cape San Bias in northwest Florida (FigFlorida oil production continued to decline during ure 15). The study would verify that the exploration 1986 and 1987. Jay field, as the leading producing is for gas and not oil. The Department of the Interior field for Florida, controls the rate of decline. would also establish an emergency response team Although production was down for the state overall to deal with possible accidents. As a result of this and for northwest Florida, it increased in south agreement, the petition for judicial review of the 5Florida. The Florida oil fields which showed an year plan was dropped (Press Release, Office of increase in production were West Felda, the Governor, March 24, 1988). Corkscrew, and Mid-Felda fields. In May, 1988, the Governor requested that the Attempts to further develop the recently discovfederal government delay exploratory drilling for oil ered Bluff Springs field were unsuccessful. The first and gas off southwest Florida. The request spetwo offset wells were plugged and abandoned as cifically referred to leases which were sold off dry holes. Development of McClellan field was southwest Florida during 1984 and 1985. The more successful with two offsets completed as poleases are located in an areas south of Naples to tential producers. The first offset to the Corkscrew just north of the Dry Tortugas, Marquesas Islands, field discovery was completed as a potential proand the Florida Keys (south of 260 north latitude, ducer. The second offset required a sidetrack hole, Figure 15). Congress had required a three-year but was also eventually completed as a potential environmental study before exploratory drilling producer. would be permitted in this area. A panel of scienAn additional nine field development wells were tists was assembled by Governor Martinez to redrilled at Jay, Mt. Carmel, Blackjack Creek, and view the federal environmental study. The panel Raccoon Point fields. Seven of these were comconcluded that the federal study was not extensive pleted as potential producers and two were enough to ensure protection of sensitive environplugged and abandoned as dry holes. The dry mental resources. Specifically, there was not holes were located at Mt. Carmel and Blackjack enough information to determine the potential efCreek fields. fects of an oil spill. Subsequently, the Governor Twelve wildcat wells were drilled in Florida during supported and Congress imposed a one-year drill1986 and 1987. Nine were drilled in northwest ing moratorium on the area south of 26o north latFlorida and three in south Florida. Two of these itude (Press Releases, Office of the Governor, May were the discovery wells for McClellan and 26, 1988 and June 16, 1988). Coldwater Creek fields. Both fields are located in 23
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 880 860 840 820 800 N -30 --SOUTH ATLANTIC I. l PLANNING AREA 0 -28 EASTERN GULF f OF MEXICO PLANNING AREA -0 2 6. ......... EXPLANATION 7] BUFFERARSTRAITS DF -BUFFER AREA PREVIOUSLY FLORIDA U REMOVED FROM LEASING PLANNING AREA AREA OFF FLORIDA BAY AND THE FLORIDA KEYS REMOVED FROM LEASING, MARCH 1988 (10.9 MILLION ACRES) AREA SOUTH OF 26 NORTH LATITUDE ..REMOVED FROM LEASING, JUNE 1988 -(14 MILLION ACRES) SPECIAL CONCERN AREA SCALE 0 30 60 MILES d EXISTING LEASES 0 50 100 KILOMETERS Figure 15. Florida portion of the 1987-1992 federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program (Johnson and Tucker, 1987). The areas off Florida Bay and the Florida Keys were removed from the 5-year plan. The area south of 26 North latitude was removed from the November 1988 lease sale. 24
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 SAW. MWAMOAM ENN 6 91 .. TENNECO ) CONOCO oe SOX A S B" \NtB63j ,r[ L--'LOYO RDGE _______ H EB W ___ SAINT PETERSBURG \ 6406 AMOC O 1 / \\ | SLEASES S DESSTRICT AREAS E AAL H AINE VILL Id PLANNING AREAS ~ ---*V"ERNON -f ---i--: _U ^ 0_20_ 40_ 60_ 80 7\ \ WSi^ ^ ^ 0 ~60 T£O KILOMETERS ^^ \ ,!!i^ a SHELLOELHOK\ ? U v^n? ^- ^^ RAKN T N.,.NECO ... Lo 8363 F~ DE OTO A FLORID MIDD R UND RPON SPIGS Figure 16. Active leases and wells drilled during 1986 and 1987 in federal waters, offshore Florida (Slitor and Wiese, 1988). LLOYD RIDGE 25W SAINT PETERSBURG LEASESL ACTIVE LEASES .wn ElDISTRICT AREAS VER N I 9PLANNING AREAS SCALE 0 20 40 60 80 0 60 120 KILOMETERS 4.5 HOWELL HOOK Io ULLEY R! i LINE RANKIN o TORTUGAS Figure 16. Active leases and wells drilled during 1986 and 1987 in federal waters, offshore Florida (Slitor and Wiese, 1988). 25
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY northwest Florida and produce from the Smackover ments. Two large blocks of offshore territory were Formation. removed from oil and gas leasing consideration With one exception, all northwest Florida wildand a drilling moratorium was implemented cats were targeted for the Upper Jurassic Smackfor areas previously leased offshore of southwest over Formation or Norphlet Sandstone. The exFlorida. The federal and state governments also ception was a well drilled to test the Tuscaloosa agreed to establish two task forces to study the Formation. This interest probably results from the environmental impact of offshore drilling. recent discovery of Tuscaloosa production at In his March 3, 1987 letter to Secretary of the Foshee field in Escambia County, Alabama. Interior Hodel, Governor Martinez states: All three south Florida wildcats were Sunniland "Florida has in the past not objected to Formation test wells. One well was located in oil and gas activities when assurances Glades County, almost seven miles northeast of were made that our sensitive marine the closest Sunniland production. Applegate and and coastal resources and the economPontigo (1984) indicate that Sunniland production ics they support would not be adversely is not likely to be discovered in this area updip from affected. I too support strong protection the producing trend. of resources vital to Florida. Oil and gas Geophysical exploration in Florida's oil-producactivities must not be allowed at the exing areas, the panhandle and south Florida, repense of our unique and sensitive remained fairly constant. Two new areas were sources." explored during 1986 and 1987, the offshore panThis philosophy is consistent with the manner in handle area and the central peninsula area. There which onshore resources in the environmentally was also a continued interest in the north peninsula sensitive areas of south Florida have been area. developed. Detailed environmental scrutiny and regulation have successfully accompanied oil Drilling in federal waters offshore of Florida was exploration and production along south Florida's slow during 1986-87. During this time, Florida's Sunniland trend. A continuation of this philosophy Governor Martinez began negotiations with the into the future will hopefully see the discovery and Secretary of the Interior, Donald Hodel, concerning wise development of new petroleum resources, the Florida portion of the federal outer continental both onshore and offshore, while protecting shelf oil and gas leasing program. Strong protection Florida's other natural and sensitive environmental was gained for Florida's fragile coastal environresources resources. 26
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 REFERENCES Applegate, A.V. and Lloyd, J.M., 1985, Summary of Florida petroleum production and exploration, onshore and offshore, through 1984: Florida Bureau of Geology Information Circular no. 101, 69 p. and Pontigo, F.A., Jr., 1984, Stratigraphy and oil potential of the Lower Cretaceous Sunniland Formation in south Florida: Florida Bureau of Geology Report of Investigation no. 89, 40 p. Pontigo, F.A., Jr., and Rooke, J.H., 1978, Jurassic Smackover oil prospects in the Apalachicola embayment, Oil and Gas Journal, January 23, 1978, p. 80-84. Blackjack Creek Geological Committee, 1974, Blackjack Creek field unit, Exhibit M-1 for Florida Department of Natural Resources Hearing No. 38. Bradford, C.A., 1984, Transgressive-regressive carbonate facies of the Smackover Formation, Escambia County, Alabama, in Ventress, W.P.S., Bebout, D.G., Perkins, B.F., and Moore, C.H., eds., The Jurassic of the Gulf Rim: Proceedings of the Third Annual Research Conference, Gulf Coast Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, p. 27-39. Harris, W.M., 1988, Federal Offshore Statistics: 1986; Leasing, Exploration, Production, and Revenues: U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, OCS Report, MMS 88-0010, 95 p. Johnson, P.G., and Tucker, D.L., 1987, The federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program; a Florida perspective: February, 1987: Office of the Governor, Office of Planning and Budgeting, Intergovernmental Coordination Unit, 16 p. Langston, E.P., and Shirer, J.A., 1985, Performance of the Jay-LEC field unit under mature waterflood and early tertiary operations: Journal of Petroleum Technology, v. 37, p. 261-268. Shirer, J.A., and Nelson, D.E., 1981, Innovative reservoir management -key to highly successful Jay-LEC waterflood: Journal of Petroleum Technology, v. 33, p. 783-791. Lloyd, J.M., 1986, Bluff Springs field discovery renews interest in Florida's western panhandle: Oil and Gas Journal, June 30, 1986, p. 105-108. and Applegate, A.V., 1987, Part 1: 1985 Florida petroleum production and exploration: Florida Bureau of Geology Information Circular No. 104, p. 1-42. Ragland, P.C., Ragland, J.M. and Parker, W.C., 1986, Diagenesis of the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Jay field, Florida (abstract): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 98th Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, p. 645. Lomando, A.J., Jr., Schrieber, C., and Nurmi, R.D., 1981, Sedimentation and diagenesis of Upper Smackover grainstone, Jay-field area, West Florida (abstract): American Association of Petroleum Geologist Bulletin, v. 65, no. 5, p. 950. Mancini, E.A., and Benson, D.J., 1980, Regional Stratigraphy of Upper Jurassic Smackover carbonates of southwest Alabama: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 30, p. 151165. 27
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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and Payton, J.W., 1981, Petroleum geology of South Carlton Field, Lower Tuscaloosa "Pilot Sand," Clarke and Baldwin Counties, Alabama: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 31, p. 139-147. Miller, J., 1974, Mount Carmel field structure map: The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company's Report for Florida Department of Natural Resources Hearing No. 27. Montgomery, S., 1987, Reservoir intervals of the northeastern Gulf, Upper Cretaceous, in Exploring the eastern Gulf: The case for expansion: Petroleum Frontiers, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 70-74. Moore, C.H., 1984, The Upper Smackover of the Gulf Rim: depositional systems, diagenesis, porosity evolution and hydrocarbon development, in Ventress, W. P.S., Bebout, D.G., Perkins, B.F., and Moore, C.H., eds., The Jurassic of the Gulf Rim: Proceedings of the Third Annual Research Conference, Gulf Coast Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, p. 283-307. Ottman, R.D., Keyes, P.L., and Ziegler, M.A., 1973, Jay field -a Jurassic stratigraphic trap: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 23, p. 146-157. 1976, Jay field -a Jurassic stratigraphic trap, in Braunstein, J., ed., North American Oil and Gas Fields: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 24, p. 276-286. Sexton, T.A., ed., 1986, The petroleum industry in Alabama, 1985: Alabama State Oil and Gas Board Oil and Gas Report 3-1, 80 p. Shirer, T.A., Langston, E.P., and Strong, R.B., 1978, Application of field-wide conventional coring in the Jay-Little Escambia Creek Unit: Journal of Petroleum Technology, v. 30, p. 1774-1780. Sigsby, R.J., 1976, Paleoenvironmental analysis of the Big Escambia Creek-Jay-Blackjack Creek field area: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 26, p. 258-278. Slitor, D.L. and Wiese, J.D., 1988, Gulf of Mexico Update: July 1986 -April, 1988: U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, OCS Information Report, MMS 880038, 40 p. Vinet, M.J., 1984, Geochemistry and origin of Smackover and Buckner dolomites (Upper Jurassic), Jay field area, Alabama-Florida, in Ventress, W.P.S., Bebout, D.G., Perkins, B.F., and Moore, C.H., eds., The Jurassic of the Gulf Rim: Proceedings of the Third Annual Research Conference, Gulf Coast Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, p. 365-374. 28
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APPENDIX 1 FLORIDA OIL FIELD DISCOVERY WELL DATA PERFORATIONS TOTAL DRILL FLOOR OR OPEN HOLE DEPTH DISCOVERY PERMFT (DF) ELEVATION DEPTH BELOW BELOW NAME OF PRODUDISCOVERY OIL GRAVITY, DATIE NO. FIELD COUNTY FT. MSL DF. FT. DF, FT. CING FORMATION STATUS DEGREES API 9-26-43 42 Sunniland Collier 34 11,602-11,626 11,626 Sunniland Pumping 26 2-1-54 167 Forty Mile Bend Dade 24 11,322-11,339 11,557 Sunniland Pumping 21 7-22-64 315 Sunoco Felda Hendry 53 11,472-11,485 11,485 Sunniland Pumping 25 | 8-2-66 371 West Felda Hendry 48 11,486-11,489 11,675 Sunniland Pumping 26 K 3-30-69 401 Lake Trafford Collier 39 11,870-11,892 11,987 Sunniland Pumping 26 6-15-70 417 Jay Santa Rosa 204 15,470-15,524 15,984 Smackover Flowing 51 z 12-19-71 504 Mt. Carmel Santa Rosa 273 15,260-15,280 15,399 Smackover Flowing 47 0 < & Norphlet 5 2-14-72 523 Blackjack Creek Santa Rosa 155 15,790-15,900 16,235 Smackover Flowing 51 C 12-5-72 563 Bear Island Collier 30 11,589-11,595 11,817 Sunniland Pumping 26 11-14-73 662 Seminole Hendry 35 11,415-11,420 11,651 Sunniland Pumping 25 z 7-30-74 712 Lehigh Park Lee 38 11,389-11,394 11,630 Sunniland Pumping 28 0 4-22-77 881 Sweetwater Creek Santa Rosa 254 14,299-14,340 14,611 Smackover Pumping 45 ., 8-11-77 865 Baxter Island Collier 29 11,512-11,515 11,823 Sunniland Pumping 22 10-13-77 904 Mid-Felda Hendry 58 11,492-11,496 11,686 Sunniland Pumping 26 6-20-78 829 Raccoon Point Collier 38 11,410-11,414 11,658 Sunniland Pumping 23 9-28-78 897 Pepper Hammock Collier 42 11,629-11,633 11,897 Sunniland Pumping 27 6-27-82 1070 Townsend Canal Hendry 52 11,416-11,421 11,462 Sunniland Pumping 28 3-25-84 1125 Bluff Springs Escambia 178 16,332-16,339 16,800 Smackover Flowing 57 11-10-85 1170 Corkscrew Collier 44 11,547-11,565 11,565 Sunniland Swab Test 26 2-19-86 1194 McClellan Santa Rosa 245 14,072-14,090 14,475 Smackover Flowing 41 6-4-88 1220 Coldwater Creek Santa Rosa 164 15,150-15,170 15,400 Smackover Flowing 47
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APPENDIX 2 1986, 1987 AND CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION DATA (1) FIELD (2) 1986 PRODUCTION 1987 PRODUCTION CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION Oil Gas Water Oil Gas Water Oil Gas (BbIs) (MCF) (BbIs) (Bbis) (MCF) (Bbis) (MBbIs) (MMCF) NORTHWEST FLORIDA Bluff Springs 133,281 76,555 97,489 43,434 24,404 154,394 177 102 Jay 5,518,771 8,212.553 44.652,415 4,676.964 7.830.538 51,653,832 355,936 451,819 Blackjack Creek 888,837 1.224,107 7,498,439 695,496 1.106,421 7,422,946 53,503 50,233 Mt. Carmel 45,649 54,294 205,919 31,338 71 94,032 4,590 4,780 McClellan 37,771 14,788 170 27,870 10,266 185 66 25 Sweetwater Creek (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 15 ISubtotal 6,624,309 9.582,297 52,454,432 5,475,102 8,971,700 59.325,389 414,286 506,974 SOUTH FLORIDA Sunoco Felda 165,685 10,127 2,058,374 136,823 9,439 1,968,188 11,409 975 0) Mid-Felda 61,652 0 127,532 88,085 0 209.489 1,083 10 m Townsend Canal 56,700 0 174,628 47,817 0 201,228 329 0 rLehigh Park 184.978 19,132 2,172,210 170,490 16,557 1,477,860 4,892 493 O West Felda 918,659 58,977 7,297,077 1,032,969 62,002 7,893,180 40,102 3,141 0 Corkscrew 73,578 0 0 173,537 0 0 257 0 Lake Trafford 11,095 0 0 10,742 0 0 276 0 / Seminole (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 85 0 § Sunniland 53,546 4,162 1,143,141 28,077 1,861 731,908 18,409 1,822 m Bear Island 439,550 38,403 2,898,415 351,562 29,561 1,783,278 9,993 789 Pepper Hammock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Baxter Island (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Raccoon Point 793,221 105,464 478,216 754,428 90,770 605,809 2,930 348 Forty Mile Bend (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 2 Subtotal 2,758,664 236,265 16,349,593 2,794,530 210,190 14,880,940 89,800 7,580 STATEWIDE TOTAL 9,382,973 9,818,562 68,804,025 8,269,632 9,181,890 74,206,329 503,952 514,537 1. Statistics compiled by Charles Tootle, Florida Geological Survey, Oil and Gas Section. 2. Relds are listed in order from north to south. 3. Plugged and abandoned oil fields. Abbreviations: Bbis -Barrels (42 US Gallons) MBbIs -Thousand Barrels MCF -Thousand Cubic Feet MMCF -Million Cubic Feet
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INFORMATION CIRCULAR No. 106 APPENDIX 3 1986 AND 1987 FIELD WELL STATISTICS (1) FIELD (2) 1986 1987 Number of Wells Number of Wells PRO INJ SI TA TOT PRO INJ SI TA TOT NORTHWEST FLORIDA Bluff Springs 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 Jay 36 30 52 0 118 41 28 52 0 121 Blackjack Creek 9 7 7 0 23 7 7 11 0 25 Mt. Carmel 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 McClellan 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 3 Sweetwater Creek (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subtotal 48 37 59 0 144 53 35 64 0 152 SOUTH FLORIDA Sunoco Felda 8 2 2 10 22 8 2 2 10 22 Mid-Felda 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 Townsend Canal 2 0 2 0 4 2 0 2 0 4 Lehigh Park 2 0 2 0 4 2 0 2 0 4 West Felda 22 0 15 6 43 23 0 14 6 43 Corkscrew 2 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 3 Lake Trafford 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 Seminole (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sunniland 1 0 12 0 13 3 0 10 0 13 Bear Island 14 2 12 0 28 13 0 14 0 27 Pepper Hammock 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 Baxter Island (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Raccoon Point 11 0 3 0 14 13 0 1 0 14 Forty Mile Bend (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subtotal 65 4 49 16 134 70 2 46 16 134 STATEWIDE TOTAL 113 41 108 16 278 123 37 110 16 286 1. Statistics compiled by Charles Tootle, Florida Geological Survey, Oil and Gas Section. 2. Fields are listed in order from north to south. 3. Plugged and abandoned oil fields. Abbreviations: PRO -Producing Wells INJ -Injection Wells SI -Shut In Wells TA -Temporarily Abandoned Wells TOT -Total No. Wells 31
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APPENDIX 4 1986 AND 1987 FIELD WELLS DRILLED Drill Floor FIELD Well (1) and Operator-Well Completion Eiev., Ft. Total (3) County Permit No. Name & No. Location (2) Date Above MSL Depth, Ft. Status BLUFF SPRINGS FIELD Escambia W-15962 Hughes Eastern869' FSL & 8-22-86 182 16,500 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, P-1204 Ralph J. Estes, 800' FWL 8-22-86. et aL., No. 28-3 Sec. 28. T5N, R31W -n JAY FIELD 0 Santa Rosa W-15896 Exxon Corp. -E.G. 350' FSL & 1-3-86 201 15,815 Completed as a potential producer. m P-1179 Jeffreys, et al., No. 6-5 609.6' FEL Sec. 6, TSN, R29W Santa Rosa W-15894 Exxon Corp. -SL Regis SHL: 10-21-87 270 15,789 Completed as a potential producer. C P-1187 Paper Co. No. 5-10 1085' FNL & 1100' FWL m BHL975' FNL & 1100' FWL Sec. 5, T5N, R29W Santa Rosa W-15892 Exxon Corp. -St Regis SHL: 3-10-86 262 15,880 Completed as a potential producer. P-1191 Paper Co. No. 5-9 2266' FSL & 1974' FWL BHL: 2025' FSL & 1750 FWL Sec. 5, T5N, R29W
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Santa Rosa W-15891 Exxon Corp. -Leon SHL: 1-17-86 220 15,760 Completed as a potential producer. P-1192 Thomas, et al., No. 40710' FNL & 2B 485' FWL BHL: 600' FNL & 600' FWL Sec. 40, T5N, R29W Santa Rosa W-16028 Exxon Corp. -LF. Smith 2253' FSL & 2-5-87 297 15,778 Completed as a potential producer. P-1210 No. 19-9 2331' FEL Sec. 19, T5N, R29W MT. CARMEL FIELD Santa Rosa No. W# (4) Southeastern Pipe2010' FNL & 4-22-88 228 15,003 Completed as a potential producer. P-1219 line Co. -Wolfe2834' FWL Hendricks No. 36-1B Sec. 36, T6N, R29W O Santa Rosa W-16124 (5) James B. Furrh, Jr. SHL: 8-10-87 194 15,200 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, z W-16125(ST) Inc. -Griffis 900' FNL & 8-10-87. P-1221 No. 28-2 1488' FWL BHL: 1050' FNL & 0 1263' FWL Z Sec. 28, 0 T6N, R29W o MCCLELLAN FIELD Santa Rosa W-15962 Exxon Corp. -State 1298' FNL & 2-13-87 252 14,400 Completed as a potential producer. P-1206 of Florida 1313' FWL No. 34-2 Sec. 34, T6N, R26W Santa Rosa No. W# (4) Exxon Corp. -State 976.2' FSL & 11-2-87 275 14,205 Completed as a potential producer. P-1226 of Florida 1377.1' FEL No. 28-4 Sec. 28, T6N, R26W
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BLACKJACK CREEK FIELD Santa Rosa W-15893 Exxon Corp. -St. SHL: 3-7-86 154 MD: 16,075 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole. P-1188 Regis Paper Co. 205 FSL & TVD: 15.965 3-7-86. No. 14-6 400' FEL BHL: 750' FSL & 100' FEL Sec. 14, T4N. R29W CORKSCREW FIELD Collier W-15913 R. K. Petroleum SHL: 5-2-86 44 MD: 11.721 Completed as a potential producer. P-1199 Corp. -Alico, Inc. 1671.3' FNL & TVD: 11.557 No. 32-1 186.9' FWL Sec. 33 BHL: 1452.6' FNL & 1 660' FEL 0 Sec. 32, T46S. R28E Collier W-16005 R.K. Petroleum -SHL: 4-30-87 44 1201: 11,697 P-1201A sidekicked from P-1201 and 0 P-1201 & Bernice D. Pepper 671.2' FSL & 1201 A: 11,849 completed as a potential producer. P-1201A No. 28-3 1699' FWL BHL 1201: 0 671.2' FSL P 699' FWL c BHL 1201A: < 677' FSL 900' FWL Sec. 28, T46S, R28E RACCOON POINT FIELD Collier W-15914 Exxon Corp. -SHLU 3-28-86 35 MD: 13,325 Completed as a potential producer. P-1 190 Collier Land & Cattle 873' FNL & TVD: ? Corp. 755' FWL No. 2-4 BHL: 1320' FSL & 1320' FEL Sec. 2, T52S, R34E 1. Florida Geological Survey well number for samples (cuttings or core chips). 2. For directionally drilled wells, SHL is surfaced hole location, BHL is bottom hole location. 3. MD: measured depth; TVD: true vertical depth (determined by directional survey). 4. Well samples have not been submitted yet. R ft .,.^4 -$-%^1-
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APPENDIX 5 1986 AND 1987 WILDCAT WELLS DRILLED Drill Floor Well (1) and Operator-Well Completion Elev., Ft. Total County Permit No. Name & No. Location Date Above MSL Depth, Ft. Status NORTHWEST FLORIDA Escambia No. W# (2) Hughes Eastern -1108' FNL & 5-14-87 270 16,311 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, P-1212 S. E. Killam 486' FEL 5-14-87. No. 9-1 Sec. 9, T5N, R31W Escambia W-16126 ARCO -R.H. 1029' FSL & 3-17-88 193 17,262 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, 0 P-1228 Sherrill No. 34-3 1050' FWL 3-17-88. Sec. 34, T5N, R33W 0 CA Franklin W-16068 David New Drilling 1675' FSL & 11-25-87 40 12,478 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, 0 P-1227 Co., Inc. -Buckeye 1350' FWL 12-4-87. 0 Cellulose Corp. Sec. 20, et al., No. 20-3 T6S, R5W Z Santa Rosa No. W# (2) Inexco Oil Co. -2076.1' FNL & 1-24-86 164 MD: 15,586 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, P P-1173 Pittman Estate 2228.9' FWL TVD: 15,572 1-24-86. No. 26-2 Sec. 26, C> T5N, R29W Santa Rosa W-15915 Exxon Corp. -1101' FNL & 2-15-86 244 14,475 Completed as a potential producer. P-1194 State of Florida 1186' FEL (McClellan field) No. 33-1 Sec. 33, T6N, R26W Santa Rosa W-15871 Pruet Production 1050' FSL & 3-18-86 164 15,448 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, P-1195 Co. -Floyd 1202' FWL 1-24-86. No. 6-3 Sec. 6, T4N, R28W
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Sania Rosa W-15078 Tenneco Oi Co. -315 FNL & 11-17-86 150 17.030 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole. P-1207 Chanpion inerna1290' FEL 11-17-86. tonal No. 10-1 Sec. 10, T3N. R30W Santa Rosa No W# (2) Red Rock Oil & 2.076.1' FNL & 6-22-87 171 15.400 Reentry of P-1173. Completed as a P-1220 Minerals Corp. -2,228.9' FWL potential producer. (Coldwater Creek Pi&tman Estate Sec. 26, field) No. 26-2A TSN. R29W Santa Rosa No W# (2) Pruet Production 1962' FSL & 1-6-88 251 6,800 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, P-1229 Co. -Champion 756' FEL 1-14-88. International Sec. 35. No. 35-41 T6N, R29W SOUTH FLORIDA Collier W-15975 Triton Oil & Gas -1373' FNL & 8-22-86 53 11,600 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, 0 P-1202 Alico Development 1258' FEL 8-22-86. No. 7-1 Sec. 7, T46S. R30E Collier W-16049 Triton Oil & Gas -1105.5' FNL & 10-9-87 45 11,900 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, P-1222 Turner Corp. 1178.1' FWL 10-9-87. No. 26-2 Sec. 26, T47S, R29E CO C Glades W-15880 J.M. Huber Corp. -1400' FNL & 2-14-86 55 9,235 Plugged & abandoned as a dry hole, P-1193 Lykes Brothers, 1850' FWL 2-14-86. < Inc. No. 26-2 Sec. 26, T39S, R31E 1. Florida Geological Survey well number for samples (cuttings or core chips). 2. Well samples have not been submitted yet.
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APPENDIX 6 1986 AND 1987 GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION ACTIVITY SHOT SURVEY PERMIT EXPIRATION ENERGY DEPTH, CHARGE HOLE LENGTH, PERMIT GEOPHYSICAL CO. SURVEYED FOR COUNTY APPROVED DATE STATUS SOURCE FT. SIZE, LBS SPACING MILES G-54-85 GECO GECO BY,CA, 09-Sep-86 08-Mar-87 Completed Vibroseis N.A. N.A. N.A. 548.50 GU,LI,F G-62-86 Western Exxon ES,SR 12-Mar-86 10-Jun-86 Completed Dynamite 80-120 15 220 13.75 G-63-86 Western Exxon CO,LA,SU N.A. Withdrawn Vibroseis N.A. N.A. N.A. 100.00 G-64-86 Ward Exp. Co Hughes Eastern ES 28-Mar-86 27-Sep-86 Completed Seismogel 150 1-15 440 4.45 G-65-86 Shell Westem E&P Shell Western E&P CL 11-Apr-86 06-Apr-87 Completed Vibroseis N.A. N.A. N.A. 45.50 G-66-86 Petty-Ray Exxon OK,SR 29-May-86 25-Nov-86 Completed Dynamite 80-120 10 220 62.00 z G-67-86 Exxon Exxon Offshore 19-Aug-86 15-Feb-86 Completed Airgun N.A. N.A. N.A. 105.00 G-68-86 Shell Offshore Shell Offshore Offshore 09-Sep-86 08-Mar-87 Cancelled Airgun N.A. N.A. N.A. 250.00 2 G-69-86 GECO GECO Offshore 19-Aug-86 14-Aug-87 Completed Airgun N.A. N.A. N.A. 2,225.00 G-70-86 GFS Bruxoil SR 09-Jul-86 05-Jan-87 Completed Dynamite 80-150 10 330 3.00 0 G-71-86 Seis Pros Seis Pros CL,HE 19-Aug-86 15-Feb-87 Completed Vibroseis N.A. N.A. N.A. 180.00 z .G-72-86 Conoco Conoco SR 12-Aug-86 08-Feb-87 Completed Offroad N.A. N.A. N.A. 9.00 g Vibroseis 0 G-73-86 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P CL 12-Aug-86 08-Feb-87 Completed Dynamite 6-200 .33-20 Test 6.00 C G-74-86 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P DD,PB,BR 07-May-87 06-May-88 Completed Vibroseis N.A. N.A. N.A. 91.70 a G-75-86 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P CL 20-Nov-86 19-May-87 Expired Dynamite 6-50 0.33-2 15 29.00 z G-76-86 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P CL,DD,MN 02-Sep-87 01-Sep-88 Expired Dynamite 27 2 50 97.00 • G-77-86 Western Tenneco ES,SR 20-Nov-86 19-May-87 Completed Dyn, Vib 70 2 165 133.00 G-78-86 Petty-Ray Amoco F 05-Dec-86 03-Jun-87 Cancelled Dynamite 50 20 440 40.00 ca G-79-86 Shell Westem E&P Shell Western E&P HE,PB N.A. Withdrawn Dynamite 6-28 .33-2 15 38.50 G-80-86 GFS LA Land & Exp SR 18-Dec-86 16-Jun-87 Completed Offroad N.A. N.A. N.A. 11.40 Vibroseis G-81-86 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P BR,CL, 02-Apr-87 01-Apr-88 Completed Dynamite 6-28 .33-2 15 140.00 HE,PB G-82-87 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P CL 02-Apr-87 01-Apr-89 Completed Vibroseis N.A. N.A. N.A. 25.00 G-83-87 GFS Exxon SR,OK 02-Apr-87 01-Apr-88 Completed Dynamite 100 20 440 77.80 G-84-87 GFS Ashland SR,ES 01-May-87 30-Apr-88 Completed Seismic 100 20 440 63.40 Gel G-85-87 GFS Ashland SR,ES 01-May-87 30-Apr-88 Cancelled Seismic 100 20 440 50.00 Gel G-86-87 GFS Ashland SR,ES 01-May-87 30-Apr-88 Completed Seismic 100 20 440 7.00 Gel G-87-87 Western Southern Fuel C,HR,L,P,S 27-Jul-87 26-Jul-88 Completed Vibroseis N.A. N.A. 440 124.00
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G-88-87 DKegcon Conoco SR 16-Sep-87 15-Sep-88 Copleted Vibrator N.A N.A N.A. 2875 G-89-87 Srel1 Western E&P Shell Western E&P CL.HE,PB 21-Mar-88 21-Mar-89 Pending Seismic 27 3 150 85.50 Gei G-90-87 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P DD.BR N.A. Withdrawn Seismic 27 3 150 151.50 Get G-91-87 Shell Western E&P Shell Western E&P DD,BR 02-Mar-88 02-Mar-89 Pending Vibroses N.A. N.A. N.A. 85.93 G-92-87 Shell Offshore Shell Western E&P Offshore 14-Dec-87 13-Dec-88 Pending Air Gun N.A. N.A. N.A. 250.00 G-93-87 GFS Davis Petroleum SR 15-Jan-88 14-Jan-89 Completed Seismac 100 15 330 12.40 Gel G-94-87 Dee Expl Confidentiaj SR.ES 15-Jan-88 14-Jan-89 Pending Dynamite 100 15 440 10.00 G-95-87 Coastal Petroleum Coastal GL.HE, Application incomplete Pending Marine N.A. N.A. N.A. 199.00 MT,OE.PB Vibroseis G-96-87 Western ARCO Offshore 10-Mar-88 10-Mar-89 Pending Airgun N.A. N.A. N.A. 64.00 G-97-87 GFS Union TX SR 11-Feb-88 10-Feb-89 Completed Vibrator N.A. N.A. N.A. 20.00 County Abbreviations: Total Miles in Applications 5.387.08 Total Surveyed 3,936.65 BR-Broward ES-Escambia L-Lake P-Pasco Central Peninsula 124.00 m BY-Bay F-Franklin LI-Uberty SR-Santa Rosa South Florida 488.20 C-Citrus GL-Glades MT-Martin S-Sumter Panhandle Onshore 994.45 CA-Calhoun GU-Gutf MN-Monore SU-Suwannee Panhandle Offshore 2,330.00 m CL-Collier HE-Hendry OK-Okahoosa Total Pending (Permitted) 495.43 CO-Columbia HR-Hemando OE-Okeechobee Total Pending (Not Currently Permitted) 199.00 DD-Dade LA-Lafayette PS-Palm Beach Total Withdrawn. Cancelled, or Expired 756.00 C -n .<
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APPENDIX 7 1986 AND 1987 WELLS DRILLED IN FEDERAL WATERS, OFFSHORE FLORIDA PLUGGED & WELL DEPTH, FT. SPUD ABANDONED AREA NO. OPERATOR LOCATION BELOW MSL DATE DATE COMMENTS Charlotte Harbor OCS-G-4950 Shell OffBlock 622 10,450 05/10/86 06/21/86 Plugged and abandoned. shore, Inc. Lower Cretaceous test. Desoto Canyon OCS-G-6472 Shell OffBlock 512 12,250 04/26/86 06/21/86 Plugged and abandoned. shore, Inc. Lower Cretaceous test. z Destin Dome OCS-G-6406 Conoco, Inc. Block 56 Confidential 06/12/87 01/26/88 Temporarily abandoned. Lease is qualified as producible. Destin Dome OCS-G-8338 Amoco ProBlock 111 Confidential 06/10/87 10/16/87 Plugged and abandoned. duction Lease is qualified as producible. Z C Florida Middle OCS-G-8363 Tenneco Block 455 12,301 09/24/86 11/08/86 Plugged and abandoned. 0 Ground Lower Cretaceous test. Pensacola OCS-G-6391 Tenneco Block 948 Confidential 10/14/87 01/19/88 Temporarily abandoned. Z No. 2 Not qualified. P Pensacola OCS-G-6391 Tenneco Block 948 Confidential 06/07/87 10/07/87 Temporarily abandoned. No. 2 ST Not qualified. Driller's depth and information listed under "comments" provided by David Cook (MMS, personal communication, 1988). Remaining data from Slitor and Wiese (1988).
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