The Goldsmith Field in northwest Ector County is Odessa’s neighborhood giant — a stacked-pay carbonate complex producing since 1935 from the San Andres, Clear Fork, and deeper horizons. Its long life has run the full arc of West Texas recovery practice: dense primary development, mid-century waterfloods, and modern CO2 projects such as the Goldsmith-Landreth San Andres Unit, which brought fresh injection capital to the field in the 2010s.
Source: Texas Railroad Commission production filings, aggregated across RRC field designations 35652062, 35652001, 35652868. Reported volumes lag the calendar by several months.
Goldsmith was discovered in 1935 during the Central Basin Platform’s first great development wave, and the townsite of Goldsmith grew up around the field. Development drilling through the 1940s and 1950s stacked thousands of wells across its multiple pay zones — a pattern typical of Ector County, where a single surface tract can overlie three or four separately developed reservoirs.
The field’s units were progressively waterflooded from the 1950s onward. In the 2010s the Goldsmith-Landreth San Andres Unit became one of the more publicized San Andres CO2 revival projects in the basin, as specialist EOR operators acquired legacy units and applied modern flood design to rock the majors had managed for harvest.
Goldsmith today is a working cross-section of Permian history: legacy waterfloods, an active CO2 unit, and modern redevelopment all within one field outline — with a royalty ownership base accumulated across ninety years of leasing.
The field produces from stacked Permian carbonates — San Andres at roughly 4,200 feet, Clear Fork and the "5600" (Tubb) beneath it, and deeper Devonian pays — on the Central Basin Platform. The stacked geometry is the field’s defining trait: separate reservoirs with separate recovery projects, often under common surface tracts, which multiplies both the engineering options and the complexity of a mineral owner’s division orders.
Goldsmith’s EOR story is the Permian’s in miniature: waterfloods carried the field for half a century, and CO2 came where the rock justified it — most prominently in the Goldsmith-Landreth San Andres Unit, where renewed injection reversed decades of decline in the 2010s. The field demonstrates that "fully developed" legacy assets keep attracting new recovery capital when the reservoir quality is real.
Ector County division orders are famously layered — one inherited interest can pay from a legacy waterflood, a CO2 unit, and a recent redevelopment well simultaneously. Pricing that stack correctly is the difference between a fair offer and a formula. We buy Goldsmith-area minerals and royalties across Ector and Andrews counties, reconcile the payment stack against RRC records ourselves, and put the result in a written offer.
County-level well data, production charts, and selling guides for the counties this field spans:
A legacy Goldsmith waterflood unit that received a modern CO2 flood beginning in the 2010s, becoming one of the basin’s better-known San Andres revival projects. It illustrates the field’s pattern: old units attracting new recovery investment.
Goldsmith is a stacked-pay field — San Andres, Clear Fork, Tubb, and deeper zones are developed as separate reservoirs, often with separate units, under the same tracts. Each producing zone your tract participates in generates its own line on the division order.
Yes. Alongside its legacy waterfloods and the CO2 unit, the broader Goldsmith area continues to see redevelopment drilling. The field designations still report more than 1.7 million barrels of oil a year to the Texas Railroad Commission.