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Title: Deep drilling continues, though records don't show it

Journal Article · · World Oil; (USA)
OSTI ID:7160077

This article discusses how, although current prices may not appear to merit the expense of drilling for deep gas today, operators are looking beyond the immediate future. Faith in the future of deep gas drillers onward. Current prices may not justify it, but there is still a great deal of interest in the really deep plays. Technically, there was only one drilling record in 1988. The E.L. Spence Trust 1, in Missouri's Reelfoot Rift region of the Mississippi embayment, was drilled to the Lamotte formation at 10,089 ft. This well surpassed the old record of 4,906 ft set back in 1966.

OSTI ID:
7160077
Journal Information:
World Oil; (USA), Vol. 208:2; ISSN 0043-8790
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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