Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 35 | Krumvieda Well Develops Heavy Gas Pressure

Krumvieda Well i Develops Heavy Gas Ca Pressure Pressur Management Believes Bit Hie Now on Top of Oil Bearing Zone That the Vernal near neat Vernal Utah is destined to make oil oi history for Utah in the near fu future future fu fu- ture seems to have a basis in fact by the proving of heavy gas pressure pres sure in the Krumvieda Krumvieda No 1 well wel This well wel struck the gas fo flow at 1300 feet In what is declared to ba bG bathe bethe the top of ot an oil oi zone to feet thick A pressure gauge registered regis pounds and Ind was still go going going go- go ing lag up according to E. E R. R R Lovewell Lovewell Love- Love well wel president of ot the Western Vestern Venture Venture Ven Ven- ture corporation when shen hel he left tho the I field feld Tuesday The Vernal is unique as an oil oi and gas structure having its oil oi sands exposed for many miles mies in length The rho sands sealed by tar or asphaltum residue are hundreds of ot feet in thickness Mr lr Lovewell who is a geologist of many years' years experience in Texas California and Louisiana states staten that Uintah basin bears all al the earmarks ear ear- earmarks marks marls of ot one of the greatest oil oi areas in America and shows comparisons comparisons com corn of structural similarity between between be be- be- be tween the Vernal and the theL S S famous gusher oil oi fields of ot San L Joaquin Joaquia basin of California Drilling in No 1 well wel will wi proceed pro pro- coed ceel cautiously as it i Is believed that a commercially productive oil 01 L horizon may be struck soon Saturated Saturated Sat Sat- S oil on sands have been passed L through in this well wel from 1270 to tc I 1300 feet Western Vestern Venture corpor corporationS corporation Uon I well wen No 1 1 located eight miles mies S southwest of ot Vernal on the Vernal I mo Is n now w 1160 feet carrying carrying carrying carry carry- ing eight and a quarter-inch quarter cas cas- ing Several showings of both oi oil 01 I and gas have been recently encountered en en- countered and production is ex cx- expected expected ex- ex around 1300 feet This well wel wellis wel 1 is under contract to O. O E. E Rhine Rhine- smith formerly field feld superintend superintendent nd- nd ent eat of ot the Midwest Oil 01 Refining i iS company In Wyoming and aind is drilling drilling drill drill- drU- drU S ing day and night nigh t. t