Show DIAMOND DRILL WELL GETS OIL AT FIFTEEN HUNDRED FEET IN SIX WEEKS the drill bit in the panuco oil transport company s well at morrison jefferson county colo reached the top of an oil sand wednesday Wedes day the according to the denver mining record it was encountered unexpectedly at about 1500 feet and the core bit penetrated the sand about one foot and brought up to the surface a quantity of sand heavily saturated with oil of about 38 gravity field manager powell stated that he did not expect to reach any oil producing horizon of any consequence at such a shallow depth but thought at least 2000 feet would be required to encounter oil in paying quantities no preparation had been made for the completion of the well although sufficient casing was on the ground to immediately commence the work of casing and additional casing has been ordered and will be delivered at the well as quickly as possible after the hole has been cased down to the oil sand it will be cemented this work will probably require from ten to twenty days depend depending ingon on how quickly the additional casing can be e obtained and then drilling into the sand can be commenced of all wild cat wells drilled anywhere in the country the panuco oil transport company was probably better prepared with efficient and practical equipment this no doubt is the main reason why such remarkable driling success was accomplished at morrison only about six weeks of drilling b has been required to drill the well to the present depth while many wild cat wells have been drilling for months and even years A diamond core drill is employed at morrison this enabled the entire formation through which the bit passed to be taken out and brought to the surface for examination and of couse any oil formation would have been detected had it not been for this fact this sand at morrison would have probably been drilled into and the well destroyed a as there was no casing in the hole except a few hundred feet just below the surface also with this machine the p possibility lity of mudding off or passing through an oil sand was eliminated |