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Show Pag, 2 February 12, i960 BLANDING OUTLOOK oti3teE5 DSoaSng Publiohod OTtry Friday I. at Blandlng, V. Cox Ctaa Hsulten, Utah PUBLISHER PHOTOGRAPHER CORRESPONDENTS Graoe Stanovoy, East Blooding Mildred Raoooe, NW Blending Hilda Perkin , SU Blending Joanna Pieree, Bluff Donna Brown, Mexican Hat LICENSED CONTRACTORS FHA LOANS LUMBER & BUILDING MATERIALS Cornelia Perkins, Monti cello Subscription Rates: San Juan County , o ns year .$4.00 San Juan County , six months 2.25 Elsewhere in U.S.A. 1 year 4.50 6 Elsewhere in U.S.A. months 2.50 Boeond Clasa Postage Paid . DOORS GLASS ROOFING A HARDWARE FLORMAN PAINT ,: (jams' mom sopm UTAH SLANGING at Blandlng, Utah ' Aneth is a victory for the scientific approach b b Editorial Chief of Police Ray Cahoon has announoed that a veterinarian will be at the fire station from noon to 5 p,m, on February 24th to give rabbles shots to dogs Cost of the shots will be $250 Dog lieenses for 1960 become the above date and may be $5,0Q for male and due on purchased at spayed females and $10,00 for unspayed females. All dogs are to be kept cn leash for 20 days beginning on the above date (Feb, 24), Dogs caught running loose during the A NEW. ERA in regulatory practice was inaugurated in Utah last week when the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission ordered well spacing in the huge Aneth field. The decision was not just a victory for one group of companies over another group. It was not just a victory for the advocates of wider spacing in general. It was a victory for technology; a milestone in the science of reservoir engineering; and above all an object lesson in the unprejudiced, scientific approach to regulation. 80-ac- re UTAH IS A YOUNG OIL STATE. Two years ago its leash period will be Impounded by the City, according to Mr, Gaboon Spacing from Pg. brand-ne- would be w AS A RESULT of this action: O The $5,000,000 not spent in unnecessary Aneth development drilling will be used for wildcatting, chiefly in Utah. O A precedent has been set for initial wide spacing and making the advocates of close spacing bear the burden of proof. O Utah is established as a progressive oil state and its commission has a rare reputation for being conscientious, objective, and uninhibited by per- sonal predilections or industry precedents. O Regulatory bodies of other states may emulate Utahs scientific apreservoir to of efficient control, problems proach recovery, and proper well spacing. OIL AND GAS JOURNAL well. facilities for water Injeotion will require more additional drilling than would Setting-u- p 40 aore epaoing but it will not be a rush project and oonas- -( quently no boon, Furtherost along is the in planning Creek proposed unit to be operated by Superior Utah Oil and Gas Oil Company, , Conservation consider MoElmo will Commission Superior's application on February 15, N, Lis comb, Blandlng, tioned Mr, Henderson on whasJ had authority to nue in the spaoing Iseue since their deolslon would restrict produ- Utah G&GCC ction and the is Commission de- nied any suoh authority but le allowed only to prevent waste, Mr, Henderson said that the commission was fully aware that oil communities suoh as Blandlng would ba unhappy about the 80 said that the eonisslon strongly favored the 40 aore plan when hearings began over 2 years ago but subsequent testimony and evidence so clearaore verdlet, He . ly proved that all produeable 80 oil oould be produced aore spaced wells had mmission no by that the Co- ohoioc but to losuc the order for that pattern Whether suited itUtah Bland the oosmlssiadjl highly pralead for its during ths long hearing by the nation's leading oil not, psr-forma- pib-lloatl- noe on, THE OIL AND GAS JOUR- limit NAL, this TK unit with water five-spott- ed injection 1 each set-u- p, pressuring commission, composed of men with no oil or technical background whatever, plunged into the intricacies of reservoir drainage with a determination to base its decision on facts alone. . Today the Utah commission is more thoroughly grounded in production technology than any state commission in the country. Through 42 days of the Aneth hearings the five commissioners absorbed the technical evidence with a patience and dedication that won the unstinted praise of both winners and losers. Only technical evidence was admitted. No references were permitted to economic considerations, industry practices elsewhere, or even studies of other reservoirs. The only pressures that concerned the commission were well pressures, not political pressures.' No reservoir in the world has ever been analyzed as closely as Aneth. Half a dozen companies on both sides of the spacing issue cored more than 100 wells at frequent intervals, conducted some 50 interference tests, and made hundreds of pressure-dro- p tests. What was learned is a really significant contribution to. knowledge of reservoir behavior, dispelling some long-hel- d beliefs and confirming some disputed newer theories. On such scientific evidence and on none other the Utah commission decided that Aneth field can be produced without requiring the operators to drill some 500 additional infill wells. j Ahea) Dog Days sditor-.i- al on pegs 2 of publication's Is reproduced newspaper, not oonvlnoed it's Oit-lolegal" Hr, Liaeoab told the as ths meeting broke up. "I'm atill ok |