Show LATE developments in the OIL FIELDS 60 utah oil development spuds in no 1 well the utah oil development pany studded in its no 1 well on the moab anticline monday at three A large crowd of local people witnessed the studding spud ding in operations the company has modem equipment of standard type and rapid progress will foe made as soon as the surface formation is penetrated and cased the depth yesterday was abbout thiry feet some little trouble being encountered with surface boulders C C double an op of many years experience is in two towers will be employed as soon as the studding spud ding in process is A 16 inch hole is being made the well is located only a few feet filoon the electric light plant at the mouth of mill creek the chief objective sand is expected at from 2100 to 2500 feet although there is good possibility of small production from a sand at around feet according to the of consulting geologist C T lupton the utah oil development well will be watched with extreme interest bv oil men it is situated on the opposite tide of the moab anticline froim the big six well and will clear up many problems relating to strati graphy the location and thickness of sands and snowden mcsween cen announce drilling plans snowden large independent oil producers of fort worth texas announce that drilling will commence immediately on the peoro mel permit on the cane creek structure which they hold G L ellis geologist for the company who will have charge of their local operations spent a couple of days on the structure the first torf the week and tentatively tat ively selected a drilling site which is located about a mile east of the shafer no 1 drilling will be done under contract by the midwest exploration company and a string of tools for the snowden well has been shipped casper it will be necessary to build a road from the river to the about two miles distant transporting of derrick and rig equipment to the location will start immediately snowden m addition to holding the prommel permit on cane creek control the C A fisher permit on the shafer structure and plan to sink a well ton that tract within the next few deseret rushing work A J turner field manager of the deseret petit oleum company returned to monday from the gibson dome on indian creek the campany ig now moving in drilling equip met having given M W geer sons of thompsons Thomp sons the hauling contract H L meeker is associated with geer sons in the job and already several thick loads of equipment have been taken as far as the dugout ranch some five miles anoon the well location on the gibson dome some additional road work will have to be done and on tuesday mr turner employed ch arles stewart formerly road agent for grand county to take charge of the road work mr stewart has a drew of eight men at work and hopes tsa have the road open for truck transportation within a few weeks manager turner reports that the standard rig and all equipment have arrived at thompsons Thomp sons and will be taken fco the location as fast as possible it is hoped to spud in the first well within six weeks the cane creek oil co is the name of a new denver company that haa been organized to develop oil acreage in the moab field james owen A D aitken and karl C shuyler are the incorporators the company is capitalized at shares of a par value of 1 the headquarters are at denver the colorado utah petroleum co is another denver concern recently organized which has holdings in the moab district G W harris B A hartis hart is and milton J keegan aro the incorporators capitalization is and headquarters at denver empire pet well ready w to be studded in the francisco drilling corporation is today completing the erection of a star no 30 rig on the gertrude strong permit in moab canyon five miles west of town this permit has been taken over by the empire petroleum company on a drilling contract from the big six company and the francisco corporation has been awarded the contract to put down a well feet unless production is obtained at shallower depth work f erecting the ng has been rushed the past week and studding spud ding in operations should take place today or tomorrow with the starting of this well four holes will be drilling on the moab anticline and should thoroughly test the structure the other wells are tha big six three miles west of moab the utah oil development two miles east of town and the dim bar no 1 located about a mile northeast of the big six A diamond dall test of the moab anticline on the somerville lease five miles east of town will be started abbout may 10 by the pioneer oil company casing for big six well being ordered due to which make it difficult to clean out the well to bottom the big six well west of moab will be cased with 3 mch casing according to J A tannehill field superintendent of the embar oil pany who has charge of operations on the well mr Tai today ordered a spring of casing which will be rushed to moab the pipe will ace lowered as drilling proceeds and when bottom is reached it will probably be in the persistent gas and oil showings in the big six well which are disclosed in bailing operations make the future operations at this well decidedly interesting and oil men are of the opinion that a saturated stratum should be encountered under the black petro penetrated during the last several hundred feet of hole drilled to start diamond drill test n upper valley ben H jackson manager of the pioneer oil company an independent operating company of wyoming was an arrival saturday mr jackson recently leased some acres of land in upper moab valley from james somerville and he states that he will start a diamond drill test hole on the ground within the next by may 10 mr jackson expects that a contract will have been awarded and work will immediately be started the utah southern company has finished running casing at its canyon no 1 well on the east anticline of the san juan field having reached bottom at 1040 feefe field superintendent in J L left moab saturday for the camp drilling is being resumed on the well the gas flow which caused considerable trouble the last feet of hole drilled has been cased off geological data indicates that the sand encountered at 2024 feet in the shafer no 1 well at moab should be reached within or feet more of drilling in the canyon no 1 well the crescent eagle well has been cleaned put to below the foot mark and with one shift working a progress of ten feet a day is being i made another crew will be put on soon and the company hopes to have the hole cleaned of potash salt to bottom at feet within a few weeks when casing will be set As the salt is lowered gas 13 steadily increasing and at present oil is boiling out of the top officials of the company who visited the well this week report that conditions appeared better chah at present charles henley geologist for the rams ellis interests is in moab this week having returned from a trip to the gibson dome where his company has extensive interests H D hekt salt lake engineer returned to moab monday from a weeks tip to the colorado river structures he is now doing some work on the moab anticline |