Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 30 | Big Gas Pressure Upsets Theories

! BIG m PRESSURE UPSETS THEORIES Union Oil & Gas Company Encounters Unexpected Results. SHOWING IS PLEASING i ; . j Indications Are That Oil Will Be Found Ahead of Guffey & Galey Log. i The intensive drilling now in process at well Xo. 1 of the Union Oil & Gas j company, just west of Farniington, has j developed rot-ults during the past week j which were somewhat of a surprise to the company's management, in that a prf-at pas pressure has been found at a more shallow depth than was first an-; an-; ii.-ipatcd. Yesterday a third as strata eni'ounterod of o yreat a volume that sand, dirt and water were thrown tour feet from the level of the der rick. It was explained by the management that the company has depended largely ' for knowledge of the strata to be found '. on the official lo; of the Guffey and i Galey well, the deepest well ever sunk ' in the district, and but 'J')0 feet away from the Union well. This log showed that ,c;as was encountered by the Guffey and Galey people in quantity at 170 feet, 40n feet and in great quantity at , 300 feet, while at 1500 feet the pres- sure was approximately 20,000,000 feet 1 of gas per day. Geologists Explain. The Union well seems to be encoun- tering the same flows at from 100 to ' 200 feet less depth. The explanation of the company's geologist is that the 1 Guffey and Galey well "was sucLk just : off from the anticline, while the Union : well is on the anticline, and while the ; strata is the same, the anticline forma-! 1 tion has forced the as pressure this , much higher and besides given greatly j ' added pressure. I Should this theory bo correct,, the j management states that a pressure all j . : the way from a 1alf a million to sev- j eral million cubic feet per day may be I encountered at any timp. Drilling is j oing on with great, vigor, the present ; shift working ten hours, and as soon j as additional drillers ran be obtaiucd I a seeoud and third shift will be added, i which will make continuous drilling. i Has Pipe in Reserve. The company now ha-s on the ground : and stacked up beside the derrick, ; sufficient ten-inch and eight-iuoh pipe ! to sink to a depth of .1000 feet. It also j has pipe in reserve in Juab county for ! au additional 1000 feet. This is by far ! the most pretentious drilling ever at-; at-; tempted in the district. The. usual drill-: drill-: ing'of the old wells was by small rigs and from four to six-inch pipe. The management states that as large flows of gas are encountered they will be cased off and the company will continue con-tinue drilling to 4000 feet if necessarian necessari-an order to encounter oil. Already there are strong oil showings, oil having ben brought up in the bailer. Last Friday a party including former Mayor Richard P. Morris, Lieutenant Fred Walters. Guy R. La t'oste and several sev-eral Ogdcn and Salt Lake investors, with the officials of the Union Gas company, inspected the sinking of the big ten-ineh pipe. At that time the gas was boiling iD the pipe so that the und was audible some distance. According Ac-cording to the companv'iJ officials, ar-ra-ncements are practically completed for the erection of the absorption plant fo- the extraction of casoline from the 23 s. and work will be begun in the very near future. Oil Exchange Quotations.. Oil r.xrhnso snd Board of Trade furnish the fcUTvinc quotations: Wjomiiif storks American OH 1-17. Bic R-ar Bir Fire l-SU. Biff Indian Boston Vfyo 10-18. Capita 1 Pet 1 Ua. Caspar F.rnbar -i-1-. Con Roy 5.S-.V7, Doable Standard 1 ",a. Kl thorn T-V. El Key Hecla Wyo ' -1". Ho1 Rhfw la . J opitr J-31. KeDney -IpttHI J. 00-20.00. Midland O & D Midtvav ! 1 Out West 3- -4. Prt Oil Fids 1 Rivrtna Wyo 9-1 1 '. S:)'t Cr'k Pt I 1 j . XniWt L-iu, VnitM Pft 5 tv, , Western 71-T'-.. Wiatlriver ifd Windriver Pet IS1.-20. Wya rt O Jk 11 JRV1i. Wyo A pet I " i - 1 Wyo Con 10a. Wyo Crown OU 1 S;i- V yo S-nndaf-J 12a. l'i r. h s'ocks P; xie 1.".:r : Jordnn !Iir 1 'a . Mt ( & R l."ia. P1onH-r O A- f, na. Tro.it "fe 14 -1 . . rintsh Basin P.i. T nion Oil A. G Ftnh Wyo Con 15a, Wasatrii Oil 1213. Tlah Oil D .ViflNneou.-; torks Alberta Pot 1 ', -( Bay Sutr O .V CT ioo-12i B'- EIW O A- C 2fa. Ruf-OAR Ruf-OAR Ra. Cntnreet Colorado O A O Empire O A- C. -'-i. r, ibni Itar '-j-'i, rrvlnsin.il 0-!'t. lofT Stit 4a, Ivon Ki.ir , M ilo , Moot Wyo Sf"a, Nat Pet la. Old -ilcj; Anieri'-ao Oil l.'OO f t Bic Bnar Wi at 3',;. Pin Five li50 at 2. EW Wto :r-. ft i.. Xii.lway lton Rt i. Uirrrton w to Tort.. at Wyntt O A R f.rv jrj. Tn.-it ":r; ol Ht Ind'ivtriil T'l-iO n t n. Cacr-r Z:".. ar .WtO ai T-;. I mtf-d P- t :.oo at r,- .m