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Iowa Forest City prospect may be large Paleozoic trap

03/16/2009
A 1930s type oil field prospect exists in the Forest City basin in southwestern Iowa. Click here to enlarge imageThis isolated graben-type filled depression of carbonates is in the shallow Paleozoic Silurian-Devonian Hunton petroleum trend whose northern two oil traps are represented by Falls City and Barada oil fields in Richardson County, southeast Nebraska. There, initial oil production was 50 to 900 b/d of oil from 2,400 ft (Fig. 1). Click here to enlarge imageThe 1930s type oil field prospect area is an extension of a proven oil field trend line that was developed by drilling thousands of wells into Paleozoic sediments from giant Oklahoma City field to Barada field, a distance of 2...
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