Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 26 | Gas Struck in Cresent Field Oil Test, Report

Gas Struck in Cresent Field oil Test Report Flow Venture Corp Well Estimated Es- Es to Be Two Million Feet A flow of vet gao estimated at feet has been encountered at a depth of 1602 feet In the intermountain in- in Venture corporation test In Crescent field it was announced by A Ia Nash who is In charge of the drillIng drill drill- Ing operations The well Was mudded in until the hole can be cased according to Mr Nash The flow was struck Wednesday while the associate pe- pe technician for this district was on the ground Mr Nash said and he ordered the drilling stopped until the casing job completed Casing now is on the way to the field and drilling through the go- go shale to the objective sand will be as soon as possible it was announced by the management manage manage- ment of the EncounterIng the gas of which the petroleum content has not been determined is looked upon as a de- de of prime importance in inthe the Crescent field Inasmuch as the test is in the formation forma forma- tion while other wells in the field have been drilled into the arbort- arbort structure The bit was in inthe the Manco at 1602 feet and andt t Is estimated that it is only a short distance to the top of tile Lakota sands where the ties of an oil deposit are believed to be excellent The test is located 1800 iceS from the Denver Rio Grande I railroad aiding at Crescent and io north of the Crescent fault and about three miles Irons the Crescent I Eagle well which been a i producer for several years