Show LATE developments in the OIL FIELDS 60 MOAB OIL FIELD DRILLING REPORTS midwest utah southern utah oil shafer no 1 cane creek sec 6 2721 27 21 discovery well of moab district past week spent in swabbing operations which brought back strong flow of oil proving hat production is coming from pool and not from pocket oil spouted to top of derrick twice during week oil is now being budded mudded off preparatory to again cementing the 8 inch casing to effect shutoff shut off of water from upper horizon Cem tenting will require a weeks time john H shafer no 1 shafer dome sec 17 27 20 twelve inch pipe cemented at feet to effect shutoff shut off of surface water drilling to resume tomorrow expect to reach first production at 2300 feet by middle of july shafer no 2 cane creek sec 20 location leveled off and wharf being constructed erection of rig to start in few days snowden no 1 cane creek sec 5 26 21 work of building two miles of road to location from river to start next week well no 1 elk ridge road to location being built and equipment will start in june 1 embar oil co big six no 1 moab anticline sec 34 26 21 string of 3 inch casing expected to arrive today and will be set to bottom at 2876 feet new string of tools arrived yesterday rig will be operated on tower productive sand expected within feet embar no 1 moab anticline see 20 2521 25 21 depth feet empire petroleum anticline sec 2025 21 on embar oil co permit fishing at feet company announces standard ng has been shipped to replace the no 28 star now in use utah oil dev co well no 1 moab anticline sec 8 26 22 drilling being resumed following brief shutdown shut down hole studded to depth of 80 feet rig will be operated on tower crescent eagle oil co well no 1 crescent dome sec 4 2219 22 19 hole cleaned to feet with only 40 feet more to go to reach bottom progress of cleaning out slow this week steady stream of oil running from casing head with water expect to start running 3 inch casing within next week western states dev co well no 1 crescent dome sec 27 21 19 depth 1300 feet drilling stopped temporarily standard rig has arrived at thompsons Thomp sons for test well on gibson dome petroleum co well no 1 gibson dome lot 4 sec 3 30 20 road completed and equipment for standard rig now reaching location erection of rig to commence next week home oil co well no 2 hartley dome eastern grand county sec 4 19 25 drilling below 1700 feet utah southern oil co canyon no 1 east anticline san juan field sec 27 41 19 casing bottomed at 1040 feet and preparing to resume drilling gas formation which caused much trouble now cased off marland oil co culbertson no 1 green river an dichne sec 35 31 16 under reaming in progress and 8 inch will be set to bottom at 2602 feet decision made to carry hole down to pennsylvanian sands if necessary conley well known oilman who controls a vast acreage of land in the san rafael district west of the green and colorado rivers was a visitor in moab the last of the week mr conley reports that he is closing negotiations whereby two and possibly three test wells will be drilled in that district this summer he left saturday for green river where he was met by H W prommel of wichita falls texas the geologist who made the first detailed examination and survey of the colorado river structures below moab and prommel outfitted it green river for a months inspection ann over the conley hold drilling locations will be selected and if mr Prom mels is favorable it is probable that a great deal of activity w start in the district west of the green nver bernard F mccann jr of the tax department of the midwest refining company was a visitor in moab the firsa of the eek prominent utahna form new oil company articles of incorporation of tho utah petroleum corporation incorporated under the laws of nevada were filed friday with the salt lake county clerk the corporation of which ellis L F rams L F adamson and J rains are directors has a fully paid up capitalization of in shares of stock the company owns a total aggregate acreage of acres on the gibson dome the elk ridge structure the structure and the monumental structure all m san juan county drilling equipment is being purchased and the work of proving up the acreage will begin immediately one and possibly two test wells will be sunk on the gibson anticline as the first activity of the new company at least one test well will be drilled on each of the other structures in the near future mr ellis is president of the corporation po ration L F rains is vice president and mr adamson is secretary treasurer mr adamson has also been named process agent all of the officers and J rains are directors charles H henley former chief geologist of the rocky mountain division of the sinclair oil company has been made geologist and has located a drilling site on the gibson anticline this drilling site la located on what is known as the geoghegan permit and is twelve miles south of the john L shafer well no 2 and eighteen miles south of the cane creek well of the utah oil refining utah southern midwest companies oil and gas may be encountered at an approximate depth of from to feet on the gibson anticline test in the sand according to the report of mr henley M 0 corey a well known drilling contractor in the salt creek and other fields of wyoming has been employed as drilling superintendent or the company mr corey arrived in moab the last of the week and will anake his headquarters here the company is purchasing equipment and it will commence to arrive shortly A J turner superintendent of the deseret petroleum company which is moving in equipment for a test well on the gibson dome near indian creek is a visitor m moab this week he reports that road work is progressing favorably and that trucks and wagons will soon be able to reach the well location with drilling equipment mr turner states the work of erecting the dereck will start in about a week H J baieson Ba meson vice president of the general petroleum company one of the largest operating companies in the west was a visitor in moab this week conferring with E D nolan general petroleum geologist who has spent the past several months in the moab district they visited the shafer well and looked over a number of structures in this vicinity the general petroleum it is understood is planning on considerable development work in the moab and san juan fields R clark motored to the figalia ranger station on the elk ridge tuesday to inspect the road work being done by the moab garage company for the midwest company he returned list night and reports that good progress is being made with the work A large crew has been employed and already about half a mile of grading his been completed he hopes to have the road about six miles long completed in a month 0 o that the midwest can commence moving in drilling equipment the sentinel oil company of california last week entered into a tentative agreement with several per with holdings on the lisbon dom whereby a block of acreage is t ain over b the company four PL ir ta aagre 1 acres involved in the dal it is understood the company will pay a bonus of for the drilling contracts and last week paid down a substantial forfeit the sentinel has leased a vast tract of patented and government land in the lisbon and horsehead sections and plans to move in one or more combination rotary and standard rigs the permit ees who leased their lisbon holdings to the company are N J christensen A S wood mane J wood and H E blake of Mon and P E bramhall of elko nevada the lands taken over adjoin the holdings of the union oil company and it is possible that a joint test well will be put down to prove the structure |