Illinois Basin Home Industry Links News Our Company History Management Clients Human Resources Safety Progress Graphs Illinois Basin Rotary Rigs Rigging Up Rotary Rig #1 Rotary... Futures Illinois Basin Opportunities for Enhanced Recovery Although the Illinois Basin is a relatively mature reservoir, abundant opportunities exist for primary and enhanced recovery... methods. The Basin covers 59,000 square miles in the tri-state area of Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky and contains coveted high gravity, low sulfur oil. The average pay zones range...

Geo N. Mitchell Drilling Co., Inc. Home Industry Links News Our Company History Management Clients Human Resources Safety Progress Graphs Illinois Basin Rotary Rigs Rigging Up... in Seminole, Oklahoma. In the 1940 s when the oil boom exploded in the Illinois Basin, George Mitchell s father, Thomas, and his four brothers migrated to Carmi, Illinois... survived depressed times and grew from a single-rig operation into one of the largest drilling contractors in the Illinois Basin. Mitchell Drilling now employs over 85 people...

Biography Home Industry Links News Our Company History Management Clients Human Resources Safety Progress Graphs Illinois Basin Rotary Rigs Rigging Up Rotary Rig #1 Rotary Rig #6... boom in 1939 from Seminole, Oklahoma to the Illinois Basin. After two decades of highs and lows, George's father, Thomas A. Mitchell, passed away in December of 1960 leaving... the business into one of the largest and most respected drilling and service companies in the Illinois Basin. In 1991, Mitchell received the IOGA's Lifetime Achievement Award...

Service Rigs Home Industry Links News Our Company History Management Clients Human Resources Safety Progress Graphs Illinois Basin Rotary Rigs Rigging Up Rotary Rig #1 Rotary Rig... Completion and Workover Rigs Mitchell Drilling has added the only NEW workover rigs in the Illinois Basin since the early 1980s. We now have 7 spudders; the newest service fleet... in the Basin. Our roots are in contract drilling, but over 30 years ago, we recognized the need for servicing wells: pulling and resetting liners, cleaning, fracing, acidizing...

Exploration Home Industry Links News Our Company History Management Clients Human Resources Safety Progress Graphs Illinois Basin Rotary Rigs Rigging Up Rotary Rig #1 Rotary Rig... of harnessing this captive source of energy. Mitchell Drilling became a part of this exciting new energy enterprise in the Illinois Basin by participating in Illinois Methane, LLC.... Spearheaded by George DeMier of DeMier Oil in Mt. Vernon, Illinois and Tulsa, Oklahoma, this visionary venture was co-managed with Gail Runnels, a Tulsa attorney and George N...