Show r t confidence expressed in oil chances drilling of structure on flanks advised where tests on apex have been made there is oil in utah and production will be gained when some of many favorable structures are drilled on the flank said andrew J denny well known oil man formerly superintendent of utah operations for the ohio oil company in an interview published in yesterdays salt lake mr denny who has always believed in the oil possibilities of utah returned from a visit of several to texas fields where he studied conditions for the petroleum company he bases his on his observation of conditions m texas and the fact that numerous strong showings of gas and oil have been struck in utah on the axes of anticlines anti clines later these wells have been aban boned without drilling flank wells as at lies where sands penetrated on the top of the structure and productive only of gas are big oil producers when dritley on the flanks not to make flank tests in utah such as that planned by the utah southern at cane creek is foolish according to mr denny and inconclusive the resources of the state will never be adequately determined he said until structures are drilled elac where than just on the top f the amount of oil that th at is being secured in texas by drilling on the flanks and in the troughs of syn dines is amazing said mr denny operators tried drilling on the top of the structures in western texas and got dusters or gassers now drilling on the flanks is the accepted order of procedure in the yates pool in pecos county thirty miles south of pecos ft ells dulled in the trough of the to a depth of 1300 or 1400 feet are producing from to barrels of oil an hour what these wells would do if opened up no one knows for they are flowing at their present rate with valves just cracked open the oil is about 38 gravity and comes from rocks of the permian age oil occurrences in western texas are serving to overturn theories of petroleum storage st orige in the field production mr denny said is coming from a granite wash production here while large does not hold up long at am anllo mr denny who will be in the city several days on business plans to return to texas |