| Show I Up pp and Down the Street 1 S. S Geologist L. L Doubts Value of New Well B By Robert W. W Bernick Glen M. M Ruby Salt Lake geologist geologist I gist said Friday the Amerada PeI Petroleum Pe Pe- Pc- Pc I Corp wildcat five airline air lr line miles southeast of Utah was producing an n increasing increasing ing amount of salt water Vater with corresponding reduction in top hole gas pressure The well wel reportedly had been making maing 15 barrels barels of degree 57 degree 57 condensate daily daiy through a drilling bit cemented in bottom of ot the hole Mr Rub Ruby said authoritative e reports report he had received following a R visit to the well wel site last week veeh 1 showed the welt well wel may prove a disI disappointment dis dis- dis- dis I appointment appointment I I like everyone else would like I very ry much to see the Amerada well wel develop into a producer and open a new oil oi field Mr Ruby sd But since since there are certain structural structural structural tural requirements requirement to the accumulation lation laton of oil oi I am n very doubtful that this thi well wel will wi be more than a fash flash in the pan pan pan There is no reason rason to believe beleve these structural requirements are present the internationally famoUs famous fa fa- famous fa- fa geologist said Mr Ruby said the oil oi seepages along the little Grand fault have attracted for many years and I believe beleve I was the first geologist to recommend drilling in the hope that the fault was closure The fact that the first well wel known as the Marland No 1 failed to find fid oil oi in any sands except the formation raised raided considerable con con- doubts doubt in my mind as tote to the te adequacy of the fault closure Several years later I and a few associates drilled dried another well wel h higher gher up on the formation with the te hope of encountering more oil oilin oi in the sands but this was a dry hole Mr Ruby attributed the Marlin Marln failure fiure to the fact that what little oil oi was found in the came from a dip or pinch out He believes that tat Amerada has cut the toe off of the boot of a much larger oil oi pool to the south connected with the Big Flat anticline anti anti- ant ant- cin dine cline which may be 30 miles mies in length lengh The presence of the Little Litte Grand fault fault on on faul-on on which Amerada geologists had placed faith as a trap for an oil oi pool was pool was formed much later liler and did not affect the migration migra migra- tion ton of the oil oi up through the sands toward the top of the Big Flat anticline to the te south Mr Ruby says cays Pacific Western Vester Oil Oi Corp which plans to drill dri four miles mUes southeast Amerada wildcat stands a better batter beter chance of hitting oil oi in the te Paradox In fact fac they have a good chance of getting a producer in the at shallower depths depths Mr Ruby says Mr Ruby believes that the fabulous fabulous fabulous fab fab- ulous Cane creek well which well which wel-which which like th the Amerada well wel showed tremendous d dous us u oil oi and gas possibilities at first fist or first r or on the extreme ends of the principal structure on nearly the te same contour lines He feels that what oil 01 and ad gas ga Amerada has reported comes from as deep as-deep deep as feet in i possibly the Devonian formation Such high gas pressures are characteristic character character- of these thee deep formations he says Mr Ruby leaves Jan 4 from New York City to assist the Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese Por Por- tu-guese tu government in finding oil oi oilin in fn that country countr He is a partner in the he international petroleum geological geological ge ge- ge- ge consulting firm of Hoover Curtice and ad Ruby He He will wl return to Salt Lake Lae City by Feb 2 he said Takes Pipe Line Utah Uta Oil Oi Refining Co assumes operation of ot miles mies of ot crude oil oi pipe line lne and ad 12 pumping stations in inte the intermountain area Jan 1 E. E.- S. S Holt Hol president announced Friday The lines Jnes previously had been operated by the PipeLine Pipe PipeLine PipeLine Line Co under contract with with U TOe o C 0 though owned by the Sit Lake Lae firm They run in Utah Ut Colorado Colorado and ad Wyoming An n estimated em em- will wi be transferred to employment employment em em- in the refining company Both firms are subsidiaries of Standard of Indiana Indiana |
