Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 30 | Wyoming Oil Notes

4 1 Wyoming Oil Notes 4 , The Pilot Butte and Plunkett fields are attracting the widespread attention of all oil men operating in Wyoming. The Glenrock Oil company has brought in another an-other producer on section 27 in the Pilot Butte Held, and the Wolfrang Exploration Explora-tion company has completed its well on the southeast corner of section 16. in the Plunkett Held. The Carmauia Oil company's com-pany's well, on section 16 is in the oil and a good production seems assured. The Glenrock Oil company has five wells going down in the Big Muddy field. The objective point is the Wall Creek sand. The Wood Oil and Development company's com-pany's well in the Fossil dome is showing-oil showing-oil at a depth of 215 feet. This section is one of the few fields in Wyoming where oil is encountered at a shallow depth. The Red Desert Held, probably the least developed of any of the prospective fields of Wyoming, is about to come into its own. To prove the great and growing Interest at present attached to the Red Desert region, it need only be mentioned that the greatest oil interests in the world are now actively engaged in exploiting this vast territory. Included among these are the Ohio Petroleum company (Standard), (Stand-ard), Dutch Shell company, Humphries. Merritt, Hurst Oil and Refining company. Trinity Oil company, Texas company ana about' fortv others. It may confidently be expected that before the present year passes the great "mother pool" of "Wyoming "Wyo-ming will be tapped, and that the vast fortunes now hidden in the depths will begin to flow Into the channels of com- '"it is reported that the output of oil from Elk Basin during the year 1917 amounted to $25,000,000. There are eight or ten Mowing wells In this basin, which is one of the oldest fields in Wyoming; the balance bal-ance are on the pump. Tho daily production produc-tion from all the wells is estimated at 10,000 barrels. The oil is pumped from the immense reservoir, holding 55,000 barrels, bar-rels, through the Illinois company s pipe line to Frannie. a distance of fourteen miles. From here it is hauled in tank cars to the refineries at Greybull. , A pipe line now nearing completion will soon be substituted for the now expensive hauling by rail.