Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-11-01 | Page 30 | Up and down the Street

Up and Down the Street Oil Gas Drilling Boom Seen fo for South Utah By Robert V. W. Bernick Southern Utah appears to be bc undergoing a revival so far as os interest in the areas arca s oil and gas g-as r pos possibilities is concerned After a fairly heavy drilling program during 1918 which which resulted resulted re re- suIted in discovery of oil and gas at Boundary Buttes San Juan county and oil at Upper Valley Garfield county as well as encouragement encouragement en en- I at Big Flat Grand county the county the area suffered a n slackening slackening slack slack- ening of drilling efforts Now with the El Paso Paco Natural Gas Co building building- a line from the Four FOUl Corners area and Utah I Natural Gas Co planning planning- a big big- line from rom Boundary Buttes to Salt Lake City it appears a real drilling drilling drilling drill drill- ing boom is in the making Most of the efforts probably will center in the Paradox basin basin basin- which some geologists say ic is ic fringed by gas and oil fields in New Mexico Colorado and Utah Frost Byrd-Frost Inc already have ha announced location of a foot test on the huge Monticello structure structure structure ture in San Juan county J. J M. M Huber Corp is planning a test in the spring spring- a few fe miles in inside ide the Utah border on the Sinbad structure Phillips Petroleum Petroleum Petroleum Petrol Petrol- eum Co and others are arc credited with working on a deal for drilling drilling drilling drill drill- ing of the Onion creek structure near Both are in Grand county Utah Glen M. M Ruby and associates are reported preparing an early test of the Big Flat structure which had numerous oil and gas shows when drilled in 1948 1919 by Tide Water Vater Associated Oil Co General Petroleum Corp is drilling drilling drill drill- ing now at its San Rafael river wildcat in southern Emery coun coun- I. I ty in the northern portion of the basin A great many runny other structures in the basin arc now bein being worked out by company geologists Lease Granted The largest single lease ever granted by Utah state land board some some 1700 acres in northern Salt Lake county county is is part of the acres lakeshore block put together by N. N G. G Morgan Jr Frost Byrd-Frost Inc Dallas Tex has announced intention to spud in ina ina ina a foot test on the Ule block within two weeks Utah Oil Output Utah crude oil production averaged aver nver- aged barrels a day for the wee week ending Oct 28 the Oil and Gas Journal reported Wednes Wednes- day