A complete owner’s guide to mineral rights in the Bend Arch region of north-central Texas — covering Stephens, Eastland, Palo Pinto, Young, Shackelford, and Throckmorton counties.
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The Bend Arch is a Pennsylvanian-age structural high in north-central Texas. It separates the Fort Worth Basin (east) from the Midland Basin / Permian (west). Geographically, the arch covers parts of Stephens, Eastland, Palo Pinto, Young, Shackelford, and Throckmorton counties — the heart of the historic 1917-1921 north Texas oil boom.
The arch’s Pennsylvanian carbonate and clastic sequence (Caddo Limestone, Strawn Group, Marble Falls Limestone) is the productive package across the region. Discovered between 1917 and 1925, the trend produced enormous volumes during the boom era and continues to produce small but steady oil volumes from thousands of long-life waterflood wells today.
Stephens County — Breckenridge oil boom epicenter; BASA Resources’ Caddo waterflood units
Eastland County — Ranger oil field (1917 discovery), still produces today
Palo Pinto County — Mineral Wells / Strawn area; Pennsylvanian Strawn Group
Young County — Olney area; Palo Pinto and Caddo formations
Shackelford County — Albany area; lower Pennsylvanian carbonates
Throckmorton County — northern extension of the Bend Arch trend
The dominant producing formation across the Bend Arch is the Caddo Limestone — a Pennsylvanian-age carbonate at depths of approximately 2,800-3,500 ft TVD. Reservoir quality is moderate (porosity 8-15%) with fracture-enhanced permeability. The Caddo produces oil with limited associated gas under modern waterflood-driven recovery.
Below the Caddo, the deeper Marble Falls Limestone and Strawn Group sandstones provide additional pay zones in some Bend Arch fields.
Bend Arch counties produce primarily through long-life waterflood units. Per-well rates average 2-5 BOPD (classic stripper economics), but reserve life is long — typically 15-30+ years on actively-maintained units.
Modern activity centers on selective directional re-entries (re-drilling existing units to access deeper Caddo Disposal intervals) rather than new horizontal development. BASA Resources’ 2014-2018 Stephens County re-entry program added several of the highest-producing wells in the region.
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