INFORMATION CIRCULAR NO. 42


the Sun Oil Company, No. 1 American Tobacco Company well, located
about 1 mile to the north-northeast. Consequently, the test was abandoned
at a total depth of 4,196 feet in Lower Cretaceous sediments after drilling
316 feet belowthe Lower Tuscaloosa marker.

 It was hoped that this well would drill a fault as interpreted from
seismic records; however, a fault was not penetrated in the Upper Creta-
ceous section.


 MONROE COUNTY-OFFSHORE

 The California Company, No. 3 State Lease 1011 well, which
reached a total depth of 12,850 feet, is shown on figure 3, a location and
information map, to be the sixth offshore well which has been drilled in
the Marquesas area. This well is located 790 feet southeast of the same
operator's No. 2 State Lease 1011 dry hole and about 7Y2 miles southwest
of the Gulf Oil Corporation, No. 1 State Lease 826-Y well, which produced
15 barrels of oil on a 14-hour drill stem test from a 59-foot interval
(12,474-12,533 feet) in the Sunniland zone. This 826-Y well probably
could have been developed as a commercial producer if it had been
located on land and the oil present at a shallow depth.


 SANTA ROSA COUNTY

 The Humble Oil and Refining Company, No. I St. Regis Paper
Company well was drilled to a total depth of 11,722 feet, terminating
in probable Hosston sediments of Lower Cretaceous Coahuilan Age.
An important objective of this test of the deeper Lower Cretaceous
section was the Rodessa Formation, which Forgotson (1957) defines
as the upper member of the lower Glen Rose subgroup of Lower Creta-
ceous Trinity Age. This formation is productive in the Citronelle field
which lies about 50 miles to the west-northwest in Alabama.

 In the Lower Tuscaloosa section three conventional cores were
taken but none of these contained oil shows. The results of an open-
hole drill stem test of the top of the Lower Tuscaloosa section (6,572-
6,612 feet), run primarily to obtain a sample of formation water for analy-
si s, are:
 Recovery (using 14-inch top and bottom chokes)
 1,000 feet water cushion
 4,270 feet salt water (95,000 ppm chloride)