Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 48 | Wyoming Reports 5 New Oil Wells

VB'li ! 5 -MEW-OIL WELLS All Are Brought In During Week, Making 58 Since October 1. OfKYFTNNV;. Wyo Hrr. ?.Fivc nil! HM aiiie in dui in- i.'k- Inst work In thr j fVj omiti? f'f-r:-i, L"'o of tho.n Iv'in? in; the BiK Mudfly fiW-l, one in th Tisflal ' (if.l'l, oni in the Wnrm Springs ftpld ainl J one in the Wrst Cic-rk fic-UJ. The I fjombino.i (ja ily c-ap:i':ity oi' I hesc new j wells is 12:, im rrv!s and their annual ra parity 4 4 7 . 1 ' 0 h:(rrp)f. They increartfl the nii!iil)f:r f wells hrousht in in thn slate sine October I to fifty -r-iht. thope fifiv-eiKlit wells liavin a romhinerl annual an-nual raparitv of n,4!T,74., the latter amount ht-in' only -l".00n barrels less iha.n the total of oil handled by Wyoming refliKTlea this year. Of the week' wells the Kinney Oil & -Coftnlng company xecure d two in the ;icr M uddy field, one eomins; in for 1 CO barrels daily at H'0i fnet ;i nd the other for lioij barrelh daily at 31f0 f-et. Tjic fni-mer is a Shannon sand producer and Che latter a Wall Creek san1 pi'Klnner. Thy K. ".'. company, drilling in the Tiadale field, brunhi. in a fifty-barrel flow at XOii feet. The Vincent Syndicate, drilling In the Warm Springs field, brought In a sev-enty-five-barrei hlark oil well at 1100 feet. Tliis weh. lies about a mile east of the Warm Sprincs well and proves '2r.no arres. The oil carries loss than 1- per cent of gasoline. The Keystone company, drilling: in the WfHt Salt Creek field, out into the Wall Creek sand at 2600 feet and secured a well good for 100 barrels daily. In the list of districts in which wells have been bivnitjlH in since October 1 the Hig Muddy field leads with a total of nineteen. The Salt Creek Hold is second sec-ond with seven, and tho other fields follow In the order named: Pilot Butte, five; "West Salt Creek, four; Jander, j four; Warm Springs, three; Elk Basin, two; Lost Soldier, two; Tisdale, two; i Bis Piney. Fossil, Biff Hollow, Greyhnll, ! V?ody, Bonanza. Busk, Pine Dome, Poison: Jrrldcr an(I Big1 San Draw, one each. In ! idditlon to the foreffoln wells, which de- j vtelop oil in commercial Quantities, nu- j 'tiicrous gas wells, with flows ranging: from T.00,000 to SO.000,000 feet daily, were ; brought in. ' Drilling statistics covering forty-four of the fifty-eight wells brought in' since October 1 show that these forty-four wells became producers at an average .ipth of MSI feet. To bring in the for-tvVfour, for-tvVfour, 7S.406 feet of drilling- was necessary. nec-essary. The shallowest well came in at 192fcet and was good for fifteen barrels dulljv. The deepest came in at 34O0 feet audi was good for 1000 ban-els daily.