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Lampasas gets first commercial field with Strawn gas in Fort Worth basin

08/27/2007
The Fort Worth basin was noted for prolific oil and gas production long before the discovery of Newark East field in 1981 and the extensive Barnett shale gas play (Fig. 1).In 1917, the discovery of Ranger field stimulated one of the largest exploration and development drilling “booms” in Texas.1 Ranger field produces from the Atoka-Bend formation, a sandstone-conglomerate reservoir that directly overlies the Barnett formation. Click here to enlarge imageOperators drilled more than 1,000 wildcat tests in and around the Fort Worth basin attempting to duplicate the success of Ranger field. These wildcat efforts resulted in the discovery of more oil/gas fields and production from...
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