INFORMATION CIRCULAR NO. 42


 Pressures
 BHFP, 517 to 2,505 pounds
 SIBHP, 2,905 pounds
 Hydrostatic, 3,437 pounds

 There was recovery from 22 of the 26 sidewall samples taken from
7,638 to 11,387 feet, butno show of oil was reported in any of the samples.

 Well control, though very limited at the level of the Rodessa
Formation, is adequate to reveal that, on Upper Cretaceous markers,
both the Humble and Socony Mobile wells are about normal regionally.
This indicates that probably the seismic information used in selecting
the locations of both of these wells will need to be reassessed.


 LAND

 FLORIDA MAINLAND

 The Division of Geology has specific information on two lease
 plays in Florida during 1962. First, in the month of July, the Phillips
 Petroleum Company took a 10-year mineral lease on 36,826.48 acres
 in the following parts of Hendry County:
 T. 43 S., R. 29 E.
 T. 43 S., R. 30 E.
 T. 43 S., R. 31 E.
 T. 44 S., R. 29 E.
 T. 44 S., R. 30 E.
 T. 44 S., R. 32 E.
 It is reported that Phillips paid a bonus of $1.00 per acre plus 50 cents
 per year rental on this acreage, which lies slightly east of a block leased
 by the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company.

 In a second leasing play, occurring in the latter part of the year,
 18,000 acres along the, St. Mary's River between Folkston, Charlton
 County, Georgia, and Hilliard, Nassau County, Florida, were leased
 by W. B. and E. C. McCarter, Houston, Texas.

 The latest information available to the Division of Geology on
 the total amount of acreage held under oil and gas lease in Florida
 pertains to 1961, and is from the International Oil and Gas Develop-
 ment Year Book of 1962, p. 55. This source, as supplemented by infor-
 mation from the State Land Office relative to offshore acreage, reveals