| Show WORLDS DEEPEST OIL WELL IN WYOMING WEST OF LARAMIE the worlds deepest oil well is going strong at feet on the simpson ridge anticline a few miles southwest of 01 La laramie raillie wyo says the rawlins reporter and the producers refiners refinery Re finers corporation has the distinction of having gone one farther toward the center of the earth than any other othe Z organization engaged in developing the natural resources resource 5 or 0 any country not to exceed one year of actual drilling time hasteen has been expended in drilling this hole after excluding shutdowns for winter this record breaking hole is not being drilled for curi sake but in the belief that if ever the dakota sand is reached an enormous producer will be brou brought blit ill in As s long as there is the faintest hope and barring accident the operation will be continued 1 1 the deepest well heretofore drilled is the Goff well i in 11 west virginia which was an effort on the part of a group of oil companies to define the various formations in that tha state this well penetrated the rocks of several geological periods to a depth of feet when it was abandoned abandon ed the deepest well in california where holes are com nion mon is one we well 11 in the rosecrans field which was carried to a depth of feet the next deepest well to the producers refiners refinery Re finers operation at simpson ridge in the rocky mountain states is that of A A rollestone near longmont Long mont which is shut down at feet awaiting the building of a derrick to replace one recently destroyed by fire the new derrick is higher than the old one indicating that rollestone is determined to continue the hole as far as feasible this well was drilled by electricity at simpson ridge the producers refiners refinery Re finers corporation has a large area in which production is found at feet there are five wells most of them averaging thirty barrels a day and two small machines are to be kept busy this summer drilling new boles the discovery well now three years old has been pumping eighteen barrels a day for the last year and prior to that time made an average of better than twenty five barrels daily the oil is of high grade and as a well can be finished in two weeks the probabilities bili ties are that the field will be a factor in the industry before the summer ends |
