Show oil 01 1 beasi leasing ng supervision goes to bureau of mines supervision of the leasing act of february 25 1920 known as an act to promote the mining of coal phosphate oil oil shale gas and sodium on the public domain was placed by the secretary of the interior under the immediate direction of the bureau of mines the bureau up to the present time has not been able to care adequately for the work which has expanded until the present oil production from government lands in california and wyoming will total barrels annually prospecting permits for drilling also have been granted in eleven other states and alaska seeing the need of more adequate supervision of this production congress in the closing days of its last session allotted to the bierau of mines to properly organize t and carry on this work until july 1 1921 oil and gas production regulations operating regulations to govern the production of oil and gas have been issued according to these regulations it shall be the duty of the oil and gas supervisor and his deputies to visit leased lands where operations operation s for the discovery and production of oil and gas are conducted and to inspect such operations with a view of preventing waste of oil and gas damage to formations or deposits cotna ining oil gas or water or to coal measures or other ini mineral deposits injury to life or property or economic waste and to issue instructions which will prevent such waste lessees lessels under these regulations shall provide tanks suitable for containing and accurately measuring iAea suring the crude oil produced from the wells and shall furnish the supervisor with accurate copies of all tank tables the quality of oil produced is also determined by the supervisor the royalties payable under these leases depends both on the amount and quality of the oil produced ranging from i 12 1212 to 25 per cent for all oil produced of 30 deg baume or over and from 12 1212 to 20 per cent for that of less than 30 deg daume baume F B tough petroleum technologist of the bureau of mines has been made supervisor of oil and gas operations with headquarters in the customhouse building at denver colorado and will report direct to the chief petroleum technologist in washington district engineers and deputy supervisors per visors together with oil gaggers and clerks have been placed at casper wyoming winnett montana bakersfield california and shreveport louisiana reporting i to the supervisor at denver 04 shale and other leases b leases dealing with boal phosphate oil shale and sodium as they involve mining operations both underground and surface s are under the immediate technical charge of george S rice chief mining ent engineer gincer of the bureau at the present time the principal mining operations are in coal althou although agh leases have been applied for covering the other mentioned minerals this part of the work will be handled in the field for the present by a district mining supervisor with offices in the customhouse building at denver operating and safety rules and regulations for coal mining operations under the terms of the act have been prepared a and nd approved by the secretary of the interior and are now in process of publication similar regulations covering the special mining conditions of other minerals are now in course of preparation permits may be issued to include not more than 2560 acres of land wherein ine deposits belong to the united states and are not within any known geological structure tur e of a producing oil or gas field or a similar amount of land containing deposits of coal sodium or phosphates and not to exceed acres of land containing oil shale deposits the boundaries of the geological structures involved in the leases are determined by the geological Geologic hl survey and the control for permits and leases was entrusted by the secretary of the interior to the general land office |