Table 9.—Oil and gas well drilling and total crew-weeks spent in geophysical
oil and gas prospecting in 1967 
 
County 
 Drilling' Geophysical, 
       crew—weeks 2 
 Exploratory wells Total (reflectwr,   seismograph 
Oil Gas Dry Wells Footage method) 
 
Broward 
 
 5.5 
Charlotte                                   
Charlotte (offshore) 
Citrus (offshore) 
Collier                                     
Dade                                      
Franklin 
1 
                              1 
                              1 
3 
1 
                                                  
1 12,500         1 12,931       1 6,041 1.53 36,485 24.01 11,510 4.0  13.0

Hendry 
Hernando                                   
2 
 3.5 
 2 7,629 
Lee 
Levy (offshore) 
Palm Beach 
                         1 
                                             
  5.01 4,735 .5  4.0 
Santa Rosa                                  
1 
1 6,600 10 
Total 
                        11 
11 98,431 620 
 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF FLORIDAcreased 13 percent below that of 1966; cumulative
production from both fields totaled 13.1 million barrels. Humble Oil and
Refining Co.'s Sunniland field in Collier County and Sun Oil Co.'s Sunoco-Felda
field in Hendry County produced a total of 1,568,000 barrels of oil during
the year. Cumulative production, 1943—67, from the Sunniland field

lAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists. 
2 International Oil Scouts Association, Austin, Texas. 
 
 
 In 1967, a total of 98,000 feet was drilled in 11 exploratory wells, including
a 12,900-foot test drilled offshore from Charlotte County by Mobil Oil Co.
All of these wells have been plugged and abandoned. 
 The interest in Florida geophysical activity which began in 1964 continues
to the present, with the bulk of the work in State and Federal waters of
the Gulf of Mexico. In 1967, 23 permits were 
235 
 
was 10.5 million barrels of low gravity oil; production in 1967 came from
16 wella, In 1967, 26 pumping wells in the SunocoFelda field yielded 983,000
barrels of oil with a gravity of about 24° API; the cumulative production
1964—67, of the field is 2.6 million barrels. No wells were drilled
in the field during the year. 
 
issued for geophysical surveys of these bottoms. 
 There were no changes in the legal code governing the conservation of oil
and gas in Florida in 1967. As an administrative action, however, the State
required that the Mobil Oil Co. post a $500,000 bond to assure performance
' of remedial action in the event that the beaches should be contaminated
during the drilling of three oil tests located offshore from the west coast
of the State.