510 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 5.—Crude petroleum production, by counties 
(Thousand 42-gallon barrels) 
County 1966 1967 Principal fields in 1967 
Banner 8,463 2,490 Singleton, Willson Ranch, Harrisburg, Johnson, Vedene,
Olsen.'Cheyenne 2,873 2,597 Southwest Potter, Doran, Juelfs-Gaylord, Graff.Dundy
9 7 East Indian Creek, Rock Canyon, Indian Creek.Frontier 14 83 Bed Canyon.
2Furnas 4 2 Wilsonville, Southwest Wilsonville.Garden 11 11 Richards, McCord.Harlan
26 27 South Alma, Prairie Dog Creek.Hayes 1 1 Black Wood Creek.Hitchcock
253 283 Reiher, Dry Creek, Bush Creek, Culbertson.Kimball 3,946 3,525 Enders,
Sloss, Fernquist, Kimball, Long.Lincoln 4 4 Red Willow Creek.Morrill 726
572 Waitman, Dunlap, Lindberg.Red Willow 1,764 3,183 Sleepy Hollow, Ackman,
Northwest Sleepy Hollow, Silver Creek,    Midway, Bed Canyon. 3Richardson
59 58 Dawson, Falls City, Barada.Scotts Bluff 697 530 Cedar Valley, Minatare,
Stage Hill, Canal, North Minatare. 
 Total 13,850 13,373 
1 Partly in Morrill County. 
' Partly in Red Willow County. 
Partly in Frontier County. 
Partly in Banner County. 
 
Source: Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. 
 
 
 
Table 6.—Oil and gas well drilling in 1967, by counties 
County Oil Gas Dry Total Footage 
Exploratory completions: 
 Banner 3 17 20 116,141 Butler  1 1 2,500 Cheyenne 2 16 18 92,557 Dawes 
1 1 3,165 Frontier 1 2 3 11,169 Furnas  1 1 3,628 Gosper  1 1 3,631 Harlan
 1 1 3,824 Hitchcock  2 2 6,998 Holt  1 1 2,592 Keith  1 1 2,500 Kimball
2 14 16 92,999 Lincoln  1 1 1,716 Morrill 1 10 11 49,157 Nance  1 1 2,893
Red Willow 1 12 13 48,641 Richardson  2 2 5,877 Scotts Bluff  4 4 21,300
Sheridan  4 4 18,480 Sioux  5 5 25,676 
 Total 10 97 107 515,444 
 
Development completions: 
 Banner 8  17 25 150,847 Cheyenne 9 1 30 40 198,805 Frontier 6   6 23,612
Hitchcock 1   1 3,984 Kimball 15  25 40 246,448 Morrill 1  2 3 13,712 Red
Willow 4  7 11 42,515 Richardson 1   1 2,353 
 Total 45 1 81 127 682,276 Total all drilling 55 1 178 234 1,197,720 
 Sources: Petroleum Information Corp., 1967 Résumé, Oil and
Gas Operations in the Rocky Mountains Region; and Committee on Statistics
of Drilling, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.