Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-07 | Page 23 | Colorado Test Hits Gas Sand

COLORADO TEST HITS I I Inland Company Drilling Near De Dc Beque Expects Expect Pay Oil at 2500 Feet t E Cob Colo Aug C. C C. operations that have havo been under way near this thin town since early last April by the tho Inland Oil and Refining cam pany a n subsidiary of the Continental of Colorado have havo resulted Jn In the tho do de development of one strong trong flow of gas gan ganat at about 1800 feet with encouragement that a gusher soon be struck The Tho Inland w welt ll i Is now v about 2000 feet deep and according to company geologists big production should bo be found at around 2500 which depth tho tho company hopes to reach with a ten ten- inch hole Besides the work work- being done by the Inland company company- Carter Oil has hns Just erected a rig on an adjoining tract while tho third rig in the tho field IB Is be beLog being be- be Log ing- placed by the Elk BaSIn dated Petroleum company which is a largo large producer in Wyoming anti which controls the Cat field in Montana Th The Frantz Oil corporation another MR big producer of Wyoming has also contracted contracted con con- to drill In the D Do Beque Held field while an offer was recently made by bya y ya a representative of the Standard of atTn In Indiana diana to take tako over a largo large part of th field to drill It A number of Intermittent attempts to develop the Do Deque oil fields haVe haVo been made in iii the past but most ohe work was done by men wh who lacked ex ox- ox and capital while none of the tho wells wits drilled very deep deop and not In Inthe inthe the most likely places As the tho result of Investigations made last spring by geologists with the tho Carter Oil that company and the Inland as wol as a number of Individuals secured holdings in the tho field and drilling drilling- was by bythe the Inland The Tho Inland In with a 32 inch bit and casing ranging from twenty down to ton inch hits hns been set at various times Operations are car carried nod ried on with a standard rig the der derrick rick being four eighty feet high and built for drilling to great depths depth In inthe the tho event that satisfactory result are not found in the comparatively shallow ahal- ahal low sands The Tho location of the well wellIs Is on what Is aa US the Battlement anticline of the tho Grand flyer bahi which 10 Is a structural basin embracing a large Dortlon of northwestern C Colo orado o- o rado The new well in is seven miles south from the town of De DO a small town In Mesa county on the main mainline line of tho Denver Rio Grande rail rail- road There are two prominent anticlines In tho De Be Boque field each having an east west trend and being boing separated by b ba a distance of seven miles The ue Os anticline passes through the tho northern part of the tho town and flOat of the drilling done In the tho past was along It On the short southern two of ot the tho D Do anticline were gushers from sands struck between be between be- be tween 2000 and 2150 feet but both were ruined because of lack of proper and experience On the tho north limb which gentle slope for about or fir a basin ln the tho miles to the trough of the J deepest hole was only 1365 diep Gas or oil and nearly always both discovered In every well drilled and geologists claim that this limb 5 On by drilling i to 2300 or 2500 feet good production f should be developed from the south the tho gusher sands sands' found on Carter Oil has haa secured a a. 2500 limb acre tract on structure J Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard of Indiana has made offerS for a a larger area That productive fields should be bedi- bedi de both on the tho north limbs of numer numerous r Is the conclusion of structures geologists who have made madea a of ous f conditions and It is now expected S well wll inland will bring In a gusher gusho tho within the next couple of while standard rigs this thia fall will see many In operation along both structures