Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 35 | Increase Crude Oil Production

INCREASE CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION By cementing th oil wellt in tho North Cushing field of Oklahoma, there, by keeping out tho detrimental flow of water, production of oil in the fiftv wells has been increased 210f Imrrrls a day. The experiment was made by tho bureau of mines, department of tho interior. In addition to saving 2000 barrels daily to tho operators' gross in c.omo, and if the in'' rented oil yield eon tinues for one year, which it a reason able expectation, the experiment will have lidded 700,000 barrels of oil to the production and $1,640,000 to the income of I he operators. The cost of cementing the fifty wnlK was $10,000, which, when compared with tho return, mean", 1 1." for eneh dollar invested. The bureau of mines plans to introduce this now system of cementing the wells in other field-throughout field-throughout the country to meet n possible possi-ble oil shortage. The crudo oil from Oltlnhomn contains con-tains much gasoline. An incrensc of 2000 barrels of crude oil a day menus 500 barrels of g.-isolino a day, or mure than 7,000,000 gallons in a your.