Show I U R f n laJ a Se Ithe r se i I Oil O I Ito Oil production in Utah amounted to barrels for the first six I months of 1950 almost 1950 almost equal to I Iwas total production for or all of 1949 it was announced Thursday And the Utah Economic Business Business Business Busi Busi- ness review said some soine 72 wells would be drilled in the state in m I 1950 Noting increase in activity in an industry that hardly existed three years ago in m the state the publication tion of the University of Utah said that in June daily average production production production tion had reached barrels of crude oil On July 1 I 1950 there were 35 producing wells ells in m the state Total production of oil from Utah fields from September 1918 to June 1950 was barrels bar bar- That compares with a total of barrels produced from I June 1907 to September 1948 1948 month of discovery disco of Ashley valley valley valley val val- val val- ley field Uintah county Four oil fields have ha been discovered discovered discovered ered in the state in the last three years years years-at at Ashley vaHe valley alley Roosevelt Boundary Buttes San Juan county and at Upper Valley VaIley Garfield county count No oil has been delivered from the the latter area to o refineries however Oil produced in Utah accounts for 8 of the delivery of crude I Ito to refineries in the state But that crude also accounts for 12 of I Ithe the gasoline refined in the area t Some 97 of the crude supplies I come from the Uintah basin More than half of f the wells wildcats I and field units drilled in the thelast thelast thelast last three years were in the basin |