The Oil Drum

My son's an Aggie at the Galveston campus as his interests are marine science. Persistent always seemed a nice way to describe the Aggie personality, the less pretty ways are obstinate and hard-headed. Its a great school, I'm really proud of my son, he's hard-working and a great guy, but, like all you Aggies, obstinate and hard-headed .

I've always been fascinated by surface geology as an exploration method. For some reason its been out of fashion for the last 60 years or so, but it found more oil fields than any other technique other than seismic. And, its still useful today I suspect if people would just pay attention. I can show you four good wildcat locations in the city of Houston, which are easy to see on the surface.
There's been 15-20 feet of subsidence because of ground water withdrawel for city water, and the town is full of active faults. The Coastal Subsidence District has them mapped, and they show highs by looking at the typography. Most of the water withdrawn was from fairly deep Miocene sands, so they exist at depth. Since Harris County is truly great producing country in really great trends, they'd all make decent prospects, but just as big a pain in the posterior as the Barnett Shale in Tarrant and Dallas counties to produce. They are all in areas that were too urbanised in 1930 to be worth wildcatting,
Bob Ebersole