| Show everybody becoming infected with utah uta h oil boom fever 11 As the shafer no 1 gusher goes on the rampage again scenes are shifting rapidly in the utah oil field situation every report that comes from the moab co country indicates that greater and greater interest is bein being shown donihe on the part of oil men great and small and the fever is bec becoming 0 i n J 1 ng contagious 6 to a degree why even the usually imer imperturbable tt irba staff of this staid old mining journal which has fedt weathered H mining booms oil booms and hot air boo booms effis co covering a period of more than a quarter of a century asbe is be coming so nervous and fidgety that it seems the only i way v a y I 1 to make it hold an even keel and keep it from gobig cra era zier than it ever has been in the past is to call in the dod doc tor and see what can be done for the patients the safety valve clung to its seat fairly fir firmly aly until just j I 1 a few days ago when the news was flashed up from moab that all attempts to control the action of the dis discovery advery well known as shafer no 1 on the kane creek or big Six dome nine miles from mc acab ab on the colorado river h had ad failed and that the gas pressure had torn everything loose and tha t oil a thousand barrels a day of it was being hurled h u n deeds of feet into the air above the top of the new newly y re rea constructed derrick what has happened since or what may h happen appen 6 before fare 11 this number of the mining review is hurled from M C alie e press that word hurled seems to be more nearly ds descriptive cri of the state of mind of everyone I 1 who talks it 0 oil i I 1 t anan i any other can not be even guessed at now the presumption is that the men who are hand handling handlik lim the well know their business and that they will not allow the well to e et t away from them and become lost that would b be e cal efty and with the entire oil world riveting its anttn attention fion an t this is great oil disclosure in ift utah a disclosure that pam promises s to P make this state shine as brilliantly as a petrol petroleum euni produce as it now shines as a profitable producer of copper i I 1 g golca 0 i d silver lead and zinc no calamities are wanted nor nar ain an ticia ted 11 conditions at well now identical with day it came in n the present situation is described in a dispatch from r i moab made public sunday last it said after several days of pumping mud and when it if W was a s thought that the oil flow was being brought 0 under co control n arol the well started out again 1 I last night blowing out all the mud that had been pumped into the hole bole and sending a s stream of oil high above the derrick and oil and mud le being in g forced out between the ten and twelve inch casing the well is now in practically the same condition as when first blew in on december 8 and a steady stream of oil is boiling out oat between the two strings ot of casing despairing of stopping the flow by the use of mud field superintendent C A smith is adopting a new plan to io bring the gusher under control A control is being installed connecting the ten and twelve inch casina casing and preventing the further waste of oil from between t the e two strings of pipe oxide or iron will then be pumped into the well with the mud this is a heavy material which is widely used in gusher fields in harnessing big oil and gas wells while the operation is somewhat expensive and is only used in case of extreme necessity the situation at the big six well demands it in view of the latest developments at the local well all doubt as to the size of the flow has been dispelled the in of 1000 barrels a day oil flow now is is considerably excess a according c cording to oil men who have been at the camp the past day or two when the oil sand is opened up tip the flow will doubtless increase materially the problem of getting t the he well under controulis con troLis is a dif ficus t one and it will probably be several weeks before cas ing can be set utah oil refining co to build pipeline at the close of last week the utah oil refining 6 company which is deeply interested in the new bilfield oilfield oil field region through its identity with the midwest exploration company as well as the utah southern oil and other associations made application in the utah land office for fora a right of way strip for forty miles and which it is estimated will cost a mile to construct so that oil may be delivered at elba on the line of the rio grande western road this application indicates the faith in which the promised productivity of the field is held if the permit is granted the line li necomes comes under the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission commission as a public carrier other companies being permitted to avail themselves of the carrying capacity no N time I 1 limit is stated or asked in the application but john C Q howard president of the utah oil refining company has publicly stated that he considered it would be several months before the pipeline construction could be in initiated atiat e d in the meantime however many tests are to be put down tune of several bundred thousand dollars announcement has been made of two more tests for the region one on the kane creek structure where shafer no 1 well was wa s brought in and another on the shafer structure riggings biggings Rigg ings and material for these tests are on the ground at the arese prese present t time it also has been announced anno that the texas company I 1 intends to close on the river bed cutting these structures which will m mean ean further immediate tests for the field I 1 midwest utah southern official talks B 0 jones vice president of the utah southern south ern oil oi company who was at the shafer well early last week on a trip trig of inspection and exploration down the river rive r below moab exo expressed essed himself in an interview as follows durin during the short time I 1 was at the well 1000 barrels za of klondyke mud were pumped into the well under heavy pressure since leaving moab I 1 have learned that pressure has been reduced from pounds to the square inch to about half of this so that control is being gained steadily it is estimated that the rock pressure of the well were it not i choked down by mud would reach at least 1000 pounds to the square inch anyone knowing anything about drilling knows that thai a pressure as heavy as this means d a bik big well utah is to be the center of a remarkable drilling campaign without doubt the cane creek or big six structure is but one one of a line of structures that line along a major fold reaching from moab through the elk mountain structure to gypsum creek in arizona where it apparently fades away all of these structures on which there are large have splendid possibilities on his trip down the river mr jones was accompanied acied by y JL J L dugan drilling superintendent of the utah southern oil company and dr C V jones consulting oil engineer of new york |
