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Salt Creek Oil Field

Dutch Well No. 1, 1908, in Salt Creek Oil Field[1]

The Salt Creek Oil Field is located in Natrona County, Wyoming.[2] By 1970, more oil had been produced by this field than any other in the Rocky Mountains region and accounted for 20 percent of the total production in Wyoming.[3]

Petroleum seeps in the area were known before 1880, but oil strikes near Lander led to claims by Schoonmaker and Cy Iba.[4] In 1889 the first well to strike oil was drilled in the Shannon pool by Philip M. Shannon, president of the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Company, who in 1895 built an oil refinery in Casper to process the oil.[5] Dr. Porro, an Italian geologist working for the Dutch company Petroleum Maatschappij Salt Creek in 1906, located the Dutch No. 1 near a large oil seep south of the Shannon wells, which was drilled in 1908.[6] The "gusher" well reached an oil sand after drilling through 1,000 feet (300 m) of shale.[7]

In 1915, a portion of the Teapot Dome was made Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 3.[8]

  1. ^ Wegemann, Plate VII
  2. ^ Wegemann, 1911, p. 37
  3. ^ Barlow and Haun, p. 147
  4. ^ Wegemann, pp.6-7
  5. ^ Wegemann, p. 7
  6. ^ Wegemann, 1911, pp. 72-73
  7. ^ Wegemann, 1911, p. 73
  8. ^ Wegemann, p. 9

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Salt Creek Oil Field (dapit sa lana sa Tinipong Bansa, Wyoming, Natrona County, lat 43,41, long -106,31) CEB Champ pétrolifère de Salt Creek French

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