Total 8.030,000 7,348,000 
Earliest record to date_ - 81,970,000 89,318,000 
Source: State Oil and Gas Board. 
 
 
 
Table 7.—Oil and gas well drilling and total crew-weeks spent in geophysical
oil and gas 
prospecting in 1967 
 
  Geophys Drilling' ical, crew- 
 weeks 2 
County Development wells Exploratory wells Total (Reflec   tion seis 
Oil Gas Dry Oil Gas Dry Wells Footage mograph method) 
Baldwin    1 1 9,011Bullock    1 1 990Choctaw 6 2 3 6 17 172,915 44.3Clarke
   6 6 48,973 44.0Escambia  1   1 5,990Franklin    2 2 2,554Geneva    1 1
8,792Lamar    2 2 6,017Mobile    2 2 20,028 14.0Tuscaloosa    1 1 900Washington
   1 1 21,153 8.0Wilcox    2 2 17,802Winston    1 1 1,725 
 Total 6 3 3 26 38 316,850 110.8 
THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF ALABAMA 
 
 
Table 6.—Crude petroleum production, by 
counties 
(42-gallon barrels) 
59 
 
County 1966 1967 
 
Baldwin 
Choctaw 
Clarke 
Escambia 
Mobile 
 70,177 68,562 
 282,203 411,717 
 121,123 119,089 
 453,389 369,728 
 7,103,108 6,378,904 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
' American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 
2 International Oil Scouts Association, Austin, Tex. 
 
 
 
NONMETALS 
 
 Nonmetals accounted for 44 percent of the State's total value of mineral
production, compared with 48 percent in 
1966. 
 
 Cement.—Alabama ranked third among the States in the production of
masonry cement. Eight companies produced masonry cement at 10 plants in six
counties; leading producers were Southern Cement Co. and Ideal Cement Co.
Shipments of masonry cement declined 8 percent; 25 percent of shipments was
consumed in Alabama. Other shipments were made to Georgia, 33 percent; Florida,
17 percent; Louisiana, 6 percent; Mississippi, 6 per- 
cent; South Carolina, 4 percent; Tennessee, 4 percent; North Carolina, 3
percent; and other States, 2 percent. 
 Alabama ranked seventh among the States in the production of portland cement.
Seven companies produced portland cement at eight plants in five counties;
leading producers were Lone Star Cement Corp. and Ideal Cement Co. Shipments
declined 6 percent; 34 percent of the total was shipped to Alabama destinations.
Other shipments were made to Florida, 22 percent; Georgia, 22 percent; Mississippi,
9 percent; South Carolina, 4 percent; Louisiana, 3 percent; and other States,
6 percent. 
 Raw materials used in the manufacture of portland cement included 48 percent