Salt Creek Oil Field

The Salt Creek Oil Field is located in Natrona County, Wyoming.^[2] By 1970, more oil had been produced by this field than any other in the Rocky Mountains region and accounted for 20 percent of the total production in Wyoming.^[3]

Petroleum seeps in the area were known before 1880, but oil strikes near Lander led to claims by Schoonmaker and Cy Iba.^[4] In 1889 the first well to strike oil was drilled in the Shannon pool by Philip M. Shannon, president of the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Company, who in 1895 built an oil refinery in Casper to process the oil.^[5] Dr. Porro, an Italian geologist working for the Dutch company Petroleum Maatschappij Salt Creek in 1906, located the Dutch No. 1 near a large oil seep south of the Shannon wells, which was drilled in 1908.^[6] The "gusher" well reached an oil sand after drilling through 1,000 feet (300 m) of shale.^[7]

In 1915, a portion of the Teapot Dome was made Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 3.^[8]

^ Wegemann, Plate VII
^ Wegemann, 1911, p. 37
^ Barlow and Haun, p. 147
^ Wegemann, pp.6-7
^ Wegemann, p. 7
^ Wegemann, 1911, pp. 72-73
^ Wegemann, 1911, p. 73
^ Wegemann, p. 9

[1] Wegemann, Plate VII

[2] Wegemann, 1911, p. 37

[Barlow_and_Haun,_p._147-3] Barlow and Haun, p. 147

[4] Wegemann, pp.6-7

[5] Wegemann, p. 7

[6] Wegemann, 1911, pp. 72-73

[7] Wegemann, 1911, p. 73

[8] Wegemann, p. 9

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