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Show J ') , I , 1 -:- - ------ ' ' """"' ..' . . "f . -v ' ' . "... '' - S ' ... f ' . ... GOING HOME: A Mets player steps on home plate just ahead of the ball (circle) on a steal from third on a pass ball. The Mets, with three wins last week, broke out of the pack, but there's a long season left and It's still anybody's ballgame. j PHILLIPS WELL TEST: WM Says fflfcrcl fa CoffliiaerefeJ Keserooiir The U.S.G.S. (U.S. Geological Geo-logical Survey) reported last week that tests of the Phillips Phil-lips Petroleum well 13 miles north of Milford prove there is a geothermal reservoir In the Roosevelt Springs area In commercial quantities. The well, which they say was drilled to 2,728 feet, had initial flows in excess of 200,000 pounds per hour with temperatures of over 400 degrees de-grees Fahrenheit. The tests were conducted by Phillips Petroleum Co. recently on May 23rd. During the tests, steam could be seen at Milford Mil-ford for several hours. Pictures and a story in the Beaver County News covered cover-ed the tests at that time. The well is the fourth drilled by Phillips Petrole- Philllps presently is preparing pre-paring to start drilling on another location just a short distance north of the last well on a permit to explore the 6-8,000 foot horizon. They have done no drilling since the well first erupted on April 29th. At that time it also blew for several hours. Besides the Roosevelt Springs KGRA, which was leased in July 1974for $877,-000, $877,-000, the Cove Fort KGRA in Beaver and Millard County, just across the Mineral Range, brought bonus bids on March 5th of this year of over $2.6 million and the recent bid opening June 12th brought bids on five units in Thermo, 18 miles south of Milford, and Monroe KGRA, one mile east of Monroe in Sevier County. At present, the Department Depart-ment of Geology at the University Uni-versity of Utah, under the direction of Dr. Stanley Ward, has several crews in the Milford area doing research re-search on a National Science Foundation grant. Exploration is planned by several other firms in the area throughout 1975. Other major oil companies holding leases are; Union Oil Co., Getty Oil Co., and Chevron Oil Co., as well as several independent geothermal exploration ex-ploration companies. um Co. In the Roosevelt Springs KGRA. Phillips obtained ob-tained nine leases In the bonus bon-us bidding on July 30, 1974. The successful well is on a 2,454 acre lease on which they bid $314,199. Of the four wells drilled, ' the last is the only one which t has been tested. It was plan - ned to probe the 6-8,000-foot ' hori-n, but was abandoned ; at 2,728 feet when pressures forced them to stop drilling. Of the other three wells, still untested, one is suspected of being dry and the other two it is believed are commercial. "Further tests are in process pro-cess by Phillips to determine the productive capability of this wet-steam reservoir," said USGS. USGS officials said the well marks the first successful success-ful geothermal test in Utah and noted if wells in this area are productive, the central part of Utah will have an alternate al-ternate source of energy for the future. The steam came as no surprise sur-prise to Mllfordites, who can remember when drillers looking for mineral, hit steam at 240 ft. depth in 1967. The steam blew for several weeks before being capped, and steam still escapes from the closed valve. |