Show or OF OIL I AT BASIN WELL ELL VERNAL Refining Company Test I Gets Excellent Result Further Investigation gation Is I Stopped l by Water An I excellent showing ng of 0 oil in the Utah Uta Oil Refining company's test fourteen miles southeast of Vernal has caused tremendous excitement excitement ex ex- throughout that section of the Uintah basin according to a l long ng distance telephone message received ed Friday morning by official officials officials cial of the refining I company However However How How- ever eer the prospects prospects of testing ou out the sand believed to be the same sam that produced the barrel disCOvery discovery dis dis- covery y well over the utah line near nea r Craig ro Colo Cob were blighted th the message stated by water broke in above and and for two days day the well has been spurting water wate over the top of the rig like a giant gian ee geyer tr company's officiate officials state The following statement concerning concerning con con- the exact conditions of th the vernal well was given en out Friday by an official of the Utah Oil Refining Refining Re Re- fining lining company OIL AT FEET The Tho tet test that was being sunk on the Ashley Valley permit fourteen fourteen four four- teen miles from Vernal on Ashley creek was as cemented in with a ten- ten inch casing at feet After driling ing mg feet deeper an excellent showing of crude oil was encountered I which created much excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment throughout the country surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding Vernal But water broke in from above either coming belind be- be lind the ten-inch ten casing or springing springing spring spring- ing from a leak due to the faulty I cementing in of the casing which prevented a thorough test to determine determine determine deter deter- mine the importance of the oil flow engineers or the company at atthe atthe atthe the well ivell have fully determined that the water came in from above the sand where the oil strike was made i iso so that this In no way detracts from the importance of the tue possibilities possibilities of the sand encountered at feet The gas sand encountered at feet h has s come come com In under the water and caused e e. huge to flow ow which has been shooting hooting up over over the rig rg for two days SHOWING IS FAVORABLE Our engineer In charge of operations operations oper oper- at af the field went Immediately Immediately immediately Immedi immedi- to Rangeley for a Braden head to shut hut off the flow but one could not be obtained there so that now he Is going to try two methods of controlling the gas in order to shut off the water and go godown godown godown down to test out the oil flow The showing is very avoda e. e The Vernal test with this recent oil s snowing I Is held so favorable Utah Oil Refining officials state be because the exact conditions and geological formation exist as at Craig Colo Cob except that at Vernal the surface is much closer the Dakota Dakota Da Dah kota sand sandS where the Craig oil was discovered Concerning the Cisco No 2 test in Grand county It was explained that a ten-inch ten casing is being ce cemented cemented ce- ce in on the top of the second sand at 2000 feet depth after straight reaming The drilling has passed through the first sand that produced a flow of gas and and the operations are now drilling into the second sand where a 90 cubic foot gasser was en encountered encountered encountered en- en countered with Cisco No 1 well The Tho company's officials state that t they anticipate the second gas gs I sand to produce as big a flow of I gas as In the No 1 well and hope to get oil in the bottom of the sand due to the fact that considerable crude oil has flown from the No 1 well vel since It has beh shut in |