Show LATEST ABOUT OIL STRIKE OF UNION CO ON LISBON STRUCTURE since the following account of the lisbon dome oil strike was made word comes that the well has blown itself in and tools are stuck iffet below the surface considerable excitement was created last week says the moab times by the report that oil had been encountered in the union oil company s well on lisbon structure forty nailes miles southeast of moab an investigation elicited the information fornia tion that the strike had been made friday the drillen illers dr keeping the news secret for several days D W clark assistant sis tant superintendent of operations for the union company arrived saturday night and with E H field feld superintendent remained at the well several days to supervise the drilling in operations the oil stratum was encountered encounter edat at a depth of 2565 feet the well started making a large 6 volume of gas and feet of oil rose in the hole due to the poisonous character 0 of f the gas operations had to be suspended until a control head could be secured and attached the control head arrived tuesday and wednesday operations were resumed A core barrel was run and a seven foot core was cut this showed that the oil was coming from a thin stratum of sandy limey shale one to three feet in thickness although the pay lens was thin it was extremely rich forcing oil up the hole feet the stratum was found to be a stringer in the salt the latter material being above and below the oil making horizon the oil was bailed baided from the well making filc anve or six barrels s and drilling was resumed there is a possibility that the oil stratum encountered is a lens brorn from f a thicker body of sandy shale and operations for the next few days will be watched with interest interest in ift the local oil field was further aroused this week when it became known that the frank shafer no I 1 well on cane creek dome had been flowing oil for several days the oil is coming up between the six inch and four inch strings of casing and undoubtedly originates from the horizon at feet which was encountered last august this horizon has consistently flowed at intervals during the past year |