Show j i 1 AGAIN HIGH GRADE OIL SECOND PRODUCING AREA ENTERED AT FEET FEET OF OIL NOW STANDING IN WELL WHICH CON BAILING FAILS TO LOWER CASING BEING RUN AND TEST OF FLOW WILL BE MADE DRILL BE LIE VED TO BE ON TOP OF MAIN SAND OIL IS AC COMPANIED BY HEAVY PRESSURE OF GAS the frank shafer no 1 discovery well on cane creek dome has developed another flow of high grade oil at a depth of feet the production is coming from a sandy shale and is accompanied compa nied by a heavy pressure of gas the showing is intern feted to indicate that the drill is approaching an oil sand and that a few more feet of hole should develop another big flow of oil such as was encountered at 2028 feet the showing of oil now coming from sandy shale is increasing steadily and continuous bailing fails to lower the column tonight there are feet of crude in the hole and the oil is gradually rising in spite of steady bailing the open hole is i caving badly and it wall be necessary to run 4 3 4 inch casing 1 before a test of the production can be made the drillars drillers dr illers are now confining their efforts to keeping the oil column below the 6 mch casing cemented at feet if the oil should reach the casing it might cause the adale around the cement to soften and cave causing the water to again break in A boatload of casing will go down the river to the well toi morrow morning and the running of pipe will be under way by night it is hoped to have casing to bottom within three or four days after the oil was encountered the hole started to cave badly and efforts to clean it out have been unsuccessful A point fifteen feet off bottom has been reached and the pipe mil he lowered that deep it will then be carried on down with the tools last thursday morning drilling was resumed at feet from that depth to a bed of salt was penetrated after which a stratum of shale was tapped which made a considerable showing of oil and gas drilling continued in this for five feet to when work was stopped friday night upon resumption saturday morning a black sandy shale was entered i and after drilling five feet a gas stratum was punctured at i feet lifted the tools feet where they stuck in the well after some difficulty the tools were loosened and 1 drilling was resumed the gas pressure kept the tools ing on several occasions finking kinking the drilling cable drilling was continued to feet when it was necessary to halt opi orations erat ions to repair the gasoline engine when the tools were again run in tuesday evening it was found that the hole had sloughed badly there being about feet of m the bottom it was also found that about feet of oil had accumulated j the work of cleaning out was started and last night the bailer was run to within fifteen feet of bottom efforts to clean out below that point have proved unsuccessful and it i will be necessary to run casing before any new hole can be 1 made As cleaning out proceeded the volume of oil and gas increased until today there are feet of fluid in the hole continuous bailing fails to lower the column in fact it is grad bally rising field superintendent clover A smith is rushing the moving in of casing and the first boatload leaves for camp in the morning the casing will be run as rapidly as possible to prevent further caving and to control the gas pressure the oil is of a very high grade and is slightly amber in color it is a higher gravity product the oil obtained in ie gusher flow at 2028 feet it is believed the oil is coming from a sand or limestone stratum as yet untapped by the drill i and that the gas pressure is forcing it through the intervening i shale the indications point strongly to the probability of ringing in another gusher flow when a few feet more of hole re drilled the situation is similar to that encountered at the upper i pacing horizon at 2028 feet before the well blew in at i mat depth there had been a considerable showing of oil for ty feet if the well were allowed to stand idle for a day it is bc ed that the oil would rise a thousand feet or more and to the surface however to protect the cement job continuous bailing is in progress to keep down the column good progress at J H shafer V shutoff of water was effected at 1820 feet in the J II 11 i ml r no 1 on shafer dome by mudding 10 inch pipe and wiling has been under way with a dry hole for several days fay the depth is 2150 feet during the last feet the j has penetrated alternating strata of and salt there 13 some gas in evidence indicating that a producing horizon be tapped at any ame the producing hanzon encountered 2028 feet in the frank shafer is expected at from 2300 to in the J H shafer another weeks drilling should re i lit m extremely interesting developments at this well and I 1 ial oilmen predict that it will be in the producing class with i next feet the oil situation in the moab field has never been so en 01 paging as at the present time with the frank shafer well ed as producing from two horizons with the J H att within a few days drilling of the first sand and with half a 1 en other deep tests being started on as many promising bui coures ct ures it commences to look as if the year 1926 will ti heastern utah definitely in the list of producing oil fields oj ax west ram and his crew of riff returned to moab monday bt 0 the ek d a steel derrick for the mid I 1 company they left tb 7 for lockhart dome where hi engaged in erecting a steel to ink for the utah southern im after ahls ob is competed v mc will erect the snowdan r ny tig on cane Creek dome L eath president and ad watson a director of the colonder Colo nver oil company were arrivals from salt lake city monday mr watson in company with W H lovesey and J W bramwell of the utah ail ie lintn company left tuesday morning to spend bomio time at the cane brcek and shafer dorne |