Show MOAB OIL FIELD DRILLING REPORTS MIDWEST UTAH SOUTHERN UTAH OIL REFINING frank shafer no 1 cane creek dome section 21 discovery well of moab district at feet the drill passed out of salt formation into black shale after penetrating the shale for 15 feet and with all indications pointing to a permanent change to shale from a salt formation decision was made to run and cement S inch casing so that further exploratory work might be done with a dry hole the running of casing was completed wednesday and on thursday the pipe was in 75 sacks of special oil well cement being used the cement will be allowed to set undisturbed for four or fie das after which the cement plug will be drilled out and work resumed casing was set to bottom at feet in a hard black shale enough cement was used to fill the space around the casing for several hundred feet above bottom and it is believed certain that a shut off of water will be effected john L shafer no 2 cane creek comte sec 36 26 20 one half mile north of frank shafer no 1 discovery well derrick and rig erected boiler is equipped for burning crude oil J H shafer no 1 shafer dome sec 17 27 20 at 1600 feet the drill passed out of hard limestone into a limey shale the depth thursday morning was 1630 feet with ithe drill still in the softer material based on the log of the frank shafer well a eras stratum should be encountered at from 1650 to 1700 feet which is expected to show some oil operations on this well should go forward much faster from now on the producing stratum encountered at 2028 feet in alie frank shafer no 1 should be tapped at about 2300 feet in the J H shafer assuming that the logs of the two wells check MIDWEST exploration well no 1 elk ridge structure the road from figalia ranger station to the location a distance of nine miles was completed sunday noon by the moab garage company contractors two days ahead of ithe premised date J C cleary chief engineer of the midwest will inspect road this week and if he accepts it the moving of materials to location will immediately start practically all of the materials and casing for this well have been taken as far as brushy basin fifteen from location and can be transferred to the in short order this well should bo studded in by the middle of august UTAH SOUTHERN EQUITY PETROLEUM H A hazelwood no 1 lockhart dome sec 1628 20 ten miles south f shafer dome the moving of equipment down nver stora moab has been in progress the past week and calip houses are being erected construction st ruction of ng to start soon UTAH SOUTHERN GENERAL PE UTAH OIL well no 1 on noble permit cedar mesa structure sec 30 40 17 road to location completed and four truck loads of rig materials left moab for wednesday erection of ng to start in about seven days EMBAR OIL CO bu six NO 1 moab anticline sec of 3 inch 21 the running casing has been delayed on account at about well of caving condition in 2425 feet however steady progress is being made in getting pipe on bottom and within the course of a jew weeks the drill should be f bottom of wellis at hole at sand is expected and a producing around feet OIL development CO UTAH well no 1 moab anticline sec 20 2521 has not yet been resumed following shutdown on july 2 depth is feet with 12 inch hole EMPIRE PETROLEUM CO WS 1 moab anticline abc 20 2521 25 21 A A supply of ten inch casing was purchased saturday to be run to bottom at feet on sunday a temporary suspension of operations was ordered pending a confer ende of officials as to desirability of again rig to new location on permit CRESCENT EAGLE OIL CO well no 1 crescent dome sec 4 2219 22 19 tied up with fishing job WESTERN STATES development CO well no 1 crescent dome see 4 2219 22 19 drilling at about 1450 feet first producing sand expected at 1800 to 2000 feet well no 2 gibson dome sec 1230 20 well has been studded in with standard rig and ng and boiler are now being placed in shape for resumption of continuous drilling op orations DESERET PETROLEUM CO well no 1 gibson dome sec 3 30 20 hole studded in with standard ng drilling temporarily suspended UTAH SOUTHERN OIL CO canyon no 1 east anticline sec 27 14 19 drilling temporarily suspended at 1040 feet FRANCES OIL CO frances no 1 dome sea 36 41 17 equipment being moved to location for standard rig test BOULDER KNOLL OIL GAS CO well no 1 boulder knoll structure sec 17 34 24 drilling at feet with standard outfit EMPIRE GAS FUEL CO well no 1 on kimball permit gibson dome sec 6 30 21 erection of houses started thursday and camp standard rig derrick will be constructed ted this coming week well to be studded in by middle of august UTAH PETROLEUM CORP well no 1 dome sec drilling with machine pending arrival of standard rig well no 2 gibson dome sec 1020 erection of stardard dard steel einck to start monday and outfit rill be ready for studding spud ding in by au 1 MARLAND OL CO culbertson no 1 green river anticline ti cline sec 35 31 16 drilling completed its contract to company feet and the marland it aiu has announced that anany the well either by giving contract to or w drilling the depth the drilling itself r doing the object shale hard feet in sand should be moenkopi Moen kopi ed under feet CISCO OIL REFINING CO 1 handy lease south booth no 23 sec 1321 quarter cemented june 21 to feet mg cement to set thirty to sixty 1 studded in july 6 evo no east of booth no 1 at feet oil and gas indica it belief that shallow s will encourage be brought in at objective 87 feet |