Talk:Wichita County, Texas

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Bad sentence, or is it just me? 27.20% of all households were made up of individuals and aren't all households made up of individuals? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.242.167.242 (talk) 20:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

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Burkburnett oil field/ Wichita County oilfields (incl Electra)
I'm surprised the North Texas oil fields don't get much coverage here. So here's a start:


 * History of Oil Discoveries in Texas Electra, 1911. Burkburnett, 1918.

Let's see, are these in the County writeup?: Nope. And. If anything, Geology_of_Wichita_Falls,_Texas is even more pitiful: "Petroleum resources were discovered in the region in the early 1900s, and the area remains a locus of exploration and production." OK!

So, "Wichita County would eventually produce over 827,590,411 barrels of oil which defined the economic development of North Texas during the twentieth century: Oi Boom! --a "Supergiant" field in oilfield terms, and with a present value ($US 50/bbl) of circa  $US 4 billion!

Current prodxn is less but still substantial. For 2012-2013: source Further east
 * Wichita County         2.1 MM bbl
 * Archer County          1.15  MM bbl
 * Montague County, TX    2.9 MM bbl
 * Cooke County, TX          2.8 MM bbl

I presume the oilfield guys work like we miners used to: "the best place to find oil is where oil was found before" ...   --Pete Tillman (talk) 21:12, 11 November 2017 (UTC), retired (mining) geologist