Show petroleum uny notes big timbers for the midwest oil Comp company anys test on the boundary butte structure 45 miles northwest of shiprock are being transported to the ground and contractor F E lanier will commence building the rig about the fifteenth of april san juan review the Leot leonora iora crew has reached camp in the rozel district at the north end of great salt lake and is erecting a new rig before resuming drilling material for the rig has been forwarded and it is expected that drilling again will be under way within a week or ten days john biglow of seattle president and general manager of the hughes oil company has recently been spending a week looking after his companas comp anys interests in Wy wyoming orning it will be remembered that the hughes oil company brought in a big gusher in the northern part of the lost soldier field early last fall E B milburne of miles city montana who is now in utah as the representative of a montana syndicate holding leases on the chalk creek structures in northeastern utah now being drilled by the ohio co has taken offices in the judge building salt lake city where he will be located durin during 6 the development of these lands in the rozel region the tak lakeside eside company reports that it has completed the job of under reaming and seated the eight inch casing at feet with apparent sti success cess in shutting off the water the hole was suspended and it was reported that a showing of oil encountered at that depth influenced the field superintendent to control the water before drillen drilling deeper the hole is being cleaned out below the casing and it is expected that drilling will be resumed this week A flow of tn gas estimated at between five and six million cubic feet a day has been encountered by the utah oil refining company in its farnham test at a depth of approximately feet geologists of the company are of the opinion that the gas is a hydrogen sulphide and not of petroleum origin it has not been determined as yet whether the discovery is only a pocket of gas a migration through fault fissures or an extensive reservoir tapped although the pressure increased as depth was attained drilling is being continued about the first of the month clarence hoerner and A G burritt geologist returned from a trip of inspection to the big six oil well on green river below moab they arrived at the camp just in time they expected to see the well brou brought ht in at a depth of 2825 feet they were much disappointed to find that a small cave had caused the bailer to get stuck in the hole thus trapping the string of drill tools in the bottom they now are working to cut through or dislodge the bailer so as to reach the tools in the bottom gas pressure and the oil saturated black and brown shale that was comin coming z from the hole when the acci accident cent occurred caused the drillen drilling 6 crew to feel certain that a big flow of oil was only a matter of a little more drilling this company now has spent more than in efforts to bring in a well |