Show I I i I Gas Well i IF ail 1 for SM S. L i iI I I Mountain Fuel Supply Co Thursday reported it had hit salt saltwater saltwater saltwater water in the No 7 well at Church Buttes Wyo a Wyo-a a well on which many Salt Lakers were vere pinning hopes for additional supplies of natural gas But the firm still has a chance to pick up natural gas production in the Dakota formation on up theline theline the theline line in the It is from that formation that other wells on the field are producing producing pro pro- the fuel for this Jules D D. D Roberts vice ice president in charge of distribution for the company Salt Lal Lake e City said failure to secure gas production I from this deeper formation was a great disappointment The company was testing the Nugget sand of the Jurassic age between and 1626 1 feet when it encountered a considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able volume of salt water but no gas William T. T Nightengale vice president in charge e of production Rock Springs Wyo announced I the well is now being plugged back to the Dal Dakota ota sands of the Cretaceous age around feet where further tests will bo be con con- ducted Mr Roberts said In view of the favorable structural location of the Nugget formation together with the fact that the Dal Dakota ota formation formation for for- mation malion some 1 HOO feet above is producing gas from four wells the company had been very ery hopeful that the Nugget sands would provide provide provide pro pro- vide a new reservoir of much needed needed needed need need- ed gas reserves and additional production production production pro pro- Mr Roberts estimated that the well has cost his firm up to so far It is one of the deepest deepest deepest deep deep- est drilled in Wyoming |