Bertha Rogers Roger Mills
The Bertha Rogers well is located in Washita County, Oklahoma, not Roger Mills County.
It was an ultra-deep oil well drilled in Washita County between 1973 and 1974, reaching a depth of 9,583 meters (approximately 31,440 feet), making it the deepest borehole in the world at the time until it was surpassed by the Soviet Union’s Kola Superdeep Borehole in 1979.
The drilling was conducted by the Lone Star Producing Company using the Loffland Bros. Rig 32, the largest land-based drilling rig in the world at that time.
The well was abandoned after drilling was halted on April 13, 1974, following the drill bit being melted by a pocket of molten sulfur encountered at depth, after 504 days of drilling.
The well produced natural gas until July 1997 before being permanently plugged and abandoned.
The precise location is near Clinton Sherman Airport and Burns Flat, with coordinates estimated around 35.31°N 99.19°W.
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Gee, I was off a county. Roger Mills is about ten miles west.