190 Berger — Hogshooter Gas Sand. 



be a continuous body of sand in a north-south direction, 

 but very narrow and lenticular in the opposite direction. 

 To the north it is productive in the Burgess oil field, 

 located at the corner of Townships 26 and 27 North, 

 Ranges 13 and 14 East. The Burgess field extends in a 

 southeast-northwest direction and is about four miles in 

 length. North of this oil field the sand is productive of 

 gas in scattered wells, and in the small gas field two miles 

 east of Copan, Oklahoma. Five miles farther north, the 

 Vander Pool produced from this sand. This field com- 

 pares with the Hogshooter field in its shape which is long 

 and narrow, extending northward from Section 34, Town- 

 ship 29 North, Eange 13 East, into Kansas. 



To the south of the Hogshooter gas field the sand is not 

 so easily determined as it is to the north. This is due 

 principally to two causes. Firstly, the reliable well 

 records of this area are scarce. Secondly, the Cherokee 

 shale and the Boone formation diverge 2 to the south and 

 other beds come in between them. These intermediate 

 beds thicken rapidly to the south, making it difficult to 

 trace individual horizons in the well logs. 



However, from the data available, it is considered that 

 the Hogshooter sand takes an almost due south course. 

 It is certainly the producing sand in the small oil field in 

 the southwest corner of Township 23 North, Range 14 

 East. Six miles farther south a small gas field in Sec- 

 tions 35 and 36, Township 22 North, Range 13 East, and 

 the oil field in the southwest corner of Township 22 

 North, Range 14 East, produce from this sand. The 

 large gas field in the north central part of Township 21 

 North, Range 14 East, produces from a thick sand that 

 seems to be the Hogshooter sand, even though the few 

 good records show a thick shale to be present between 

 the sand and the Boone formation. 



As before mentioned the Hogshooter sand is very 

 narrow. Throughout most of its extent it varies from 

 one to five miles in width. Locally there are narrow 

 extensions westward and eastward from the main body. 

 In the Hogshooter Gas field the sand has maximum 

 recorded thickness of 168 feet, but does not appear in the 

 logs of wells drilled four miles to the west and three miles 

 to the east. In the Burgess oil field, where the axis 



2 Eelation of the Ft. Scott Formation to the Boone chert of S.E. Kansas 

 and N.E. Oklahoma, Journal of Geology, vol. 26, 7, p. 619. 



