Southland Life Ins. - Oil Lease
An oil lease located 6.0 miles South West of the city of Benavides, Texas.
Short history note
The Southland Life Ins. lease is located in what used to be named SWEDEN, TEXAS. The Southland Life Ins. lease is adjacent to the Miller-Rutldge . lease and shares the same history.
"The Benavides, or North Sweden field was discovered Apifl 16, 1637", when Cravis and Doran completed their No. 1 F. V. Puig for an initial production of 6 barrels per hour of 45 gravity oil through a 1/8—inch choke, from a sand in the Government Wells zone at a depth of 4,766 feet. Development was fairly rapid, and on July 1, Standard Oil of Kansas extended the field 1 mile south and encountered a new pay about 50 feet above the discovery horizon. This extension and new horizon was followed one month later by the discovery of production in the Cockfield at a depth of approximately 5,350 feet in the Rossi No. 1 well of the Navarro Oil Company. Other producing horizons have since been proven at depths of approximately 3,650 and 4,600 feet.
Number of Acres
The Southland Life Ins. oil lease covers an extension of 6,343.0 acres. There is OIl well 27 with a total depth of 5,200 feet and Oil well 2 with a total depth of 5,483 feet as shown in Figure below.
