Show Up and Down the Street StreetS Major O Oil Firms Plan Pan Roosevelt S Pool Tests Ry By Robert RobertV V W Bernick ROOSEVELT Duchesne County Count Special Special Drilling Drilling of nine 01 oil wells at Roosevelt field is proposed pro posed under a unit agreement submitted sub sub- to the tribal business committee committee com corn at the thc Uintah Oura Ouray a agency Fort Duchesne Cost could run from 2 to That committee disclosed Friday the proposals of oC the Carter Oil Oi Co Oil and Gas Co and anel other companies with lands inthe in ir the thc vicinity of two completed oi oil wells just over the line in Uintah county The tribal business committee has given preliminary approval al to tc the contract covering development development develop elop ment of acres of Indian lands ands individual Indian allotments and fee patented lands in the thc block The area covers lands in both Uintah and counties To Io U. U S. S Bureaus The proposed unitization plan will be submitted to the United States geological survey and the commissioner of Indian affairs for study Final action by the tribal business committee will be made wh when en recommendations enda lions are arc a re received received re re- re- re and after individual Indians Indians Indians In In- whose lands arc are involved on an allotment basis are ale con con- The ex extend lend through I parts of townships 1 and 2 south I ranges 1 and 2 cast east and range lang 1 I west vest Uintah special meridian I Carter Oil Co has been operator operator operator opera opera- tor at the Roosevelt pool and i brought in two producing producing- wells I Ute Tribal No o 1 and No 2 in I 1949 and 1950 1050 I I A unit agreement provides pro for forthe forthe I IUle the Ule orderly exploitation of mineral mineral min mm- minI I eral cral resources and for participation I tion of land owners O in the acreage whether the wells are located specifically specifically specifically on their lands or not I May Cover er Area Arc Principal is that an oil pool may cover a large area taking i in lands adjacent to the he oil wells The present oil wells at Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt eIt pool are arc deep ones in ones in the vicinity of feet They are expensive Estimated cost of II drilling runs from to depending on difficulties encountered I Unitization generally precedes development de of a field But action action action ac ac- ac- ac 1 I tion by the major oil companies I indicates their faith that a major I producing area has been I credo ered The Utah Oil Refining Co of Salt Lake City has a minority minority interest in the two wells completed completed com corn comI I I Ithe by Carter a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of New Kew Jersey and Oil and Gas Co Standard Oil Company of Indi Indiana na Phillips Petroleum Co has a substantial acreage in the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed unit area and presumably is isa isa isa a partner in the agreement 30 SO to lo 40 Mile l Belt Pacific Western Vestern Oil Corp also has certain in the vicinity vicinity vicin vicin- it ity of the Roosevelt pool Geologists in Salt Lake City have theorized that the Roosevelt pool discoveries and the shows of oil at Gusher Uintah county and Bluebell Duchesne county indicate indi indi- cate presence of a belt of oil fields some 30 to 4 10 miles long long- and three to five miles wide extending through the two counties Carter and now arc are drilling at Bluebell The Thc California Califor Califor- nia Co a R. subsidiary of the Standard Stand Stand- ard arci Oil Company of California still is attempting completion of ofa a well at Gusher Mechanical difficulties have been listed as main reason reason why the Gusher well has not become a pro pro- du ducer To Rail Meeting J. J D. D McDonald cDonald Salt Lal Lake e general gen gen- eral cral agent Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul and Pacific railroad will attend a general sta staff meeting meeting- of I Ithe the Milwaukee road in Chicago Monday |