| Show LATE developments in the OIL FIELDS AS IMPORTANT OIL PRODUCING STATE strong hope of becoming an important oil producing state is cherished by H W prommel consulting geologist of denver colo who on thursday night addressed the regular monthly meeting of the utah section of the american institute of mining and metallurgical en at the newhouse hotel in jinders alt lake with otto herres presiding two years ago said mr prommel at the close of an address to a capacity audience utah was listed among the states possessing no pe tro leumi possibilities through the discoveries on the colorado river structures by the midwest utah southern utah oil refining utah is listed as a potential field in the future I 1 feel confident the state will rise to the position of an important oil producer mr prommel provided his auditors with a great wealth of information concerning the geology of southeastern utah gleaned by himself and his associate H E crum over a period of years lie stated it as his opinion that the folding in southeastern utah and the diversions of the colorado river resulted from salt domes rather than that warping of the river and the removal of the load along the river bed caused the folding he also strongly emphasized the fact that the lower pennsylvanian members were the source rocks 0 all the oil showings in southeastern utah and that no test was conclusive until it had penetrated these strata drilling on the flanks of colorado river anticlines anti clines where the lower pennsylvanian members can be found in place he is confident will result in commercial production rock conditions in southwestern utah also indicate he said that the pennsylvanian formation offers an excellent field for exploration tests in this section have none of them been decisive since none of the wells reached the lower pennsylvanian Pensyl INDIAN OIL LEASING BILL GETS APPROVAL the indian affairs committe of the national house of representatives on monday favorably reported representative Hayd cne bill authorizing the leasing of oil lands in executive order indian reservations mak afe only two amendments the first provides that applicants to be entitled to permits must have made substantial investment or development on their lands enoi to january 1 1926 the other amend nent would protect the interests of certain applicants whose applications once were rejected by the interior department if they in good faith filed a motion for reinstatement or rehearing or performed any other acts which the secretary of the interior entities them to relief the enactment of this bill will permit a resumption of operations on a number of test wells on the navajo reservation in utah south of the san juan river and east of the meridian SAYS UTAH OIL IS TALK OF california utah oil prospects are the talk of southern california according to G S holmes salt lake and los angeles capitalist capt alist who arrived here monday on one of his triennial visits to inspect his interests here every practical oil man in southern california is expecting to hear any minute that oil production has started said mr holmes they are even more optimistic than local residents the minute oil is struck in paying quantities a flood of california capital will be turned loose for development purposes mr holmes said business conditions in california were good 1 I get the impression too he said that things have been improving here utah is being talked about more and more as a field for financial development and big construe tive activities can be looked or at any time salt lake tribune midwest utah southern w utah oil refining frank shafer no 1 cane creek dome section 6 2721 27 21 discovery well of baab district closed down to await arrival of feet of 4 3 4 inch seamless casing which will be run to near bottom at feet to test production of stratum at that depth casing should arrive from factory within a week cleaning out of hole to permit lowering of pipe will start within a few days well continues to flow a small stream of oil through nud J H shafer no 1 shafer dome section 17 27 20 eight and one quarter inch casina set on bottom at feet and drilling has been re fumed on thursday the depth was feet the drill passed out of shale at feet and is now in salt the gas stratum at feet failed to flow any material amount of gas after the mud was baided bailed out prommel no 1 snowden cane creek dome section 5 27 21 being drilled by midwest exploration bottomed at feet may be necessary to skid rig john L shafer no 1 cane creek dome section 36 26 20 rig up ready for studding spud ding midwest utah oil hughes no 1 elk ridge structure section 30 40 19 bottomed at 1285 feet hole which encountered crevice at 1240 feet being straighten utah southern general petroleum utah oil refining nobel N 1 cedar mesa structure section 28 40 18 drilling under 1050 feet utah southern equity oil hazelwood no 1 lockhart dome section 16 28 20 bottomed at feet temporarily closed down empire petroleum co strong no 1 baab anticline section 20 25 21 standard ng equipment on ground and derrick partial ly erected utah oil development co well no 1 moab anticline sec tion 34 26 21 bottomed at 1550 feet closed down embar oil co big sax no 1 moab anticline section 34 26 3 pioneer well of moab district bottomed at in limey shale gas pressure has steadily increased during past week and increase was so marked this morning that decision was made to run 3 12 1 2 inch casing which is on location western stacee development co well no 1 crescent dome section 4 2818 28 18 bottomed at 1400 feet closed down well no 2 gibson dome section 12 30 18 closed down at feet petroleum co well no 1 gibson dome section 3 30 20 closed down after studding spud ding in drilling to be resumed soon utah southern oil co canyon no 1 east anticline sec tion 27 41 19 hole unde reamed casing set on bottom at 1040 and will be cemented ta shut off gas flow armstrong company well no 1 crescent dome section 17 22 19 drilling with diamond core drill resumed this week corn pany announces that showing of oil encountered las week was not of commercial depth about 1400 feet crescent eagle oil co well no 1 crescent dome section 4 2219 22 19 bottomed at feet the organization of crescent eagle leasing co for the purpose of continuing operations on the well has been an bounced it is reported that a new rig will be erected over hole frances oil utah petroleum frances no 1 dome sec ton ag 41 19 bottomed at 1280 feet in doerr this week to await repairs for gasoline engine empire gas fuel co kimbal no 1 gibson dome section 21 bottomed at feet fishing for bit utah petroleum corp well no 1 gibson dome section 1 30 20 running of 12 12 1 2 inch casing to bottom at 1090 feet ed wednesday and drilma has been resumed showing of cil was encountered between 1070 and 1090 feet Hul fler knoll oil gas co well no 1 boulder knoll structure section 17 34 25 drilling under 1700 feet |
