Show petroleum notes what is said to be the largest oil derrick in the world has ha been erected at montebello california it is for a rotary Z outfit and has a floor 32 feet square to the crown the heig height is feet while the extreme overall height is ft the op orators who erected it expect to drill a hole feet deep the work of distilling 6 the oil from the mountain of shale at the catlin shale plant near elko nevada resumed after a layoff of two months during this time many improvements have been made hinder runder the direction of manager sheeler and it is expected that they will be able to operate at a greatly in increased efficiency as a result fire which started in an unaccountable manner caused damage of less than at the plant of the utah oil refining fining company in the northwest section of salt lake city on the afternoon of the ath according 6 to E b S holt of the refinery the damage an was confined to the destruction of a boiler house at the acid plant in the north en end d of the works lester C seawell of salt lake city will soon have two tests under way on his holdings at lost soldier says the casper oil index carvey et al of provo utah have taken a lease on acres in sec 9 26 90 and will start a test witt with standard equipment at an early date anna belle WYOM ing 6 oil co has already begun operations on part of its holdi holdings nop in sec 2 26 90 both operations are to be deep tests union oil co of california ha has s apparently opened another black oil field in wyoming with a shallow well on circle t ridge in the shoshoni shoshone Sho shoni indian reservation near the maver springs field at a depth of ft test pumped pu bals from the embar sand deeper drilling to ft failed to 19 depth crease the production well will be produced at present P the to furnish fuel for a deep test to be started immediately 1 1 I same locality test of the potential production of the southern southam zone test of the salt creek oil field was completed and a seven day fici begun middle while no of 01 on zone wednesday july 25 con figures have been ivan lines or given out by either the pipe with a committee yet enough is known know n to predict ct v entire degree of certainty that the potential production of the ane estino field will be less than bals daily careful edw the by those in a position fion to know place the production for the entire field at approximately bals per day bosy special pipe line committee in charge of the test is n milade com compiling piling figures for the first zone which will SOO soon be public casper oil index oil ra the twenty two mile six inch pipeline of the fargo distal ct t company from the poison spider south casper cr cree eek be to casper is complete and ready for a test which will hii of SOO jve made with gas from the companas comp anys wells instead h of the water as is the usual custom says a casper dispa A ith with the completion of the two purn pumping ping stations one I 1 in the field the other at a midway point which are now under construction delivery of crude will be begun Z to the mid west nest refining 6 company which has contracted for barrels well arell no 23 on section 3 33 38 is drilling in the Ten sleep sand the big producing 1 I stratum of the field at 2350 feet which is nineteen feet in the sand and fluid is rising arism 6 rapidly in t the he casin casing 1 an this b gives ives every appearance in its present stage b of being the equal of any of the previous completions the texas company lias has now completed its cycle in the petroleum industry through the united states says L T bass utah representative of the company through its entrance into salt lake and utah this complete cycle includes production refining and marketing facilities of the texaco petroleum products in all three phases from coast to coast and from the gulf of mexico Ail exico to the great lakes the recent developments and expansion of the texas company in the west test was the link needed to make the activities of the company countrywide and the decision in selecting salt lake as a big distributing point f for or this section was done after a thorough and painstaking ex examination im by officials of the company com p any who took more than a year to size up the situation |