Sesser Anticline (New)

Location

Eastern T5 and 6S, R1E, Franklin County (I,J-5)

References

J. Treworgy 1981

Description

The Sesser Anticline is named for the town of Sesser and the Sesser Oil Field. It was listed as a "significant unnamed structure" by Treworgy. As mapped on the Beech Creek ("Barlow") Limestone (ISGS open files), the Sesser Anticline is about 8 miles (13 km) long and has about 50 feet (15 m) of closure. The axis trends north to south and is slightly curved. The Sesser Anticline is not apparent on Keys and Nelson's (1980) structure map of the Herrin Coal Member. Like the Benton Anticline, the Sesser Anticline probably developed mostly in latest Mississippian to early Pennsylvanian time. The anticline supports a major part of Sesser Consolidated Oil Field, which has produced 4.6 million barrels of oil, mainly from the Aux Vases (Chesterian) Sandstone and Lower Devonian Clear Creek reservoirs.