Show LATE developments in the jAV OAB OIL FIELDS 60 midwest utah southern utah oil refining frank shafer no 1 cane creek dome section 6 27 21 discovery welt of moab district cleaning out hole to test productive stratum at feet in drilling past iron at a depth of feet the cable parted leaving the string of tools and about 2000 feet of cable in the hole well is now closed down waiting for a string of fishing tools from casper these should arrive by sunday when fishing operations will start no trouble is anticipated in picking up the tools developments of the past few days indicate that part of the string of tools thought to have been sidetracked at feet dropped to the bottom of the hole the iron on bottom was being successfully drilled by when the gas pressure bounced the tools throwing a kink in tha cable and causing it to part J H shafer no 1 shafer dome section 17 27 20 at a depth of feet the sand reel broke necessitating a shutdown shut down for several days while waiting for repairs operations were resumed wednesday during the shutdown shut down the hole filled up with a thousand feet above bottom and on thursday morning bad been cleaned out to within eighty feet of bottom for neaily feet the drill has h as been penetrating since parsing cut of the salt bed the well has been correlating with frant shafer no 1 and within the next hundred feet 13 expected to pick up the oil stratum encountered at feet in the frank shafer prommel no 1 snowden me sweeny cane creek dome section 5 27 21 being drilled by midwest exploration on thursday the well wag drilling ahead at feet with every indication tact the troubles caused by drilling into a crevice haa been overcome john L shafer no 1 cane cree dome section 36 26 20 rig up ready for studding spud ding midwest utah oil refining hughes no 1 elk ridge ture section 30 40 19 drilling at 1270 feet tools running perfectly indicating that troubles caused by drilling into crevice have been over comte at 1300 feet 12 1 2 inch cas ing will be run and cemented utah southern general petroleum utah oil refining nobel no 1 cedar mesa structure section 28 40 18 drilling un der 1710 feet in a hard limestone well is still making gas from ai 10 foot sand at aw utah southern equity oil hazelwood no 1 lockhart dome section 16 2620 26 20 bottomed at feet and temporarily closed down utah southern general petroleum graham no 1 beet basin structure section 28 32 19 road to location being built drilling equipment to be moved in as soon as road is open embar oil co big six no 1 moab anticline sec tion 34 25 21 pioneer well of moab district bottomed at feet where heavy flow of gas was encountered three and one half inch casing was run to 2882 feet last week and additional pipe baa this week been obtained string will be landed on bottom drilling will be resumed despret petroleum co rose no 1 gibson dome section 20 drilling now under way hole to be carried to depth of feet at present utah southern oil co canyon no 1 east anticline section 28 41 19 will cement 6 inch casing at 1040 feet frances oil utah petroleum frances N 1 dome section 36 drilling under feet in brown shale and broken lime new franklin engine now in use and progress has been speeded up utah petroleum corp geoghan no I 1 gibson dome section 1 30 20 well was reamed to 1369 feet and 12 1 2 inch casing was cemented at that depth on top of gas sand after allowing cement to set for five days drilling will be resumed sunday empire gas fuel co kornbau no 1 gibson damle section 6 30 21 drilling resumed yesterday following fishing job depan about 1000 feet armstrong company well no 1 crescent structure section 17 22 19 bottomed at 1220 feet well to be abandoned and rotary rig moved to new location on salt valley anticline about eight miles east crescent eagle leasing co crescent eagle no 1 crescent dome section 4 2219 22 19 cleaning oit ait tl test oil stratum at f ct union oil co of california lisbon no 1 lisbon structure section 16 30 25 drilling equipment being moved to location and erection of derrick will be under way within a few days well to be spud ded in before april 1 empire petroleum co strong no 1 moab anticline section 20 25 21 standard rig equipment on ground and derrick partially erected utah oil development co well no 1 moab anticline sec tion 34 26 21 bottomed at 1550 feet shut down western development co well no I 1 crescent dome section 4 28 18 bottomed at about 1400 feet closed down boulder knoll oil gas co well no 1 boulder knoll structure section 1734 17 34 25 waiting for casing bottomed at about 1900 feet john C howard confident of future of oil field liepe to be an oil producing state may be realized any day prediction made monday by johi C howard president of the utah on refining company in an address be fore the all engineers club in salt lake city i the time is almost here when ane states oil possibilities will be proved mr howard believes and an important in the oil industry may be announced within the lexi week he said mr howard sketched the facts relating to the various oil prospecting fields of the state explaining geologic structures and the progress made I 1 thus far in exploration and development stressing the southeastern por of the state otest of salt valley to be made by armstrong the salt valley anticline long recognized as one of the outstanding structures of the southeastern utah district will soon be tested by W M i armstrong of los angeles it is sn bounced noun ced this week the armstrong rotary ng which drilled a well feet deep on the crescent fold will be moved to a location in salt valley where mr armstrong has acquired considerable acreage A corn bained potash and oil test will be put down the casing has been pulled from the crescent well and preparations are being made to move rig the location of the salt valy test will be in township 23 south range 20 east the salt vahey anticline is one oi o i the largest structures in the district it resembles the moab anti dine in many respects having been subjected to considerable faulting many geologists hold to the belibei that it is a salt dome A well wag drilled in the valley several yeara ago by the wyoming utah oil pany to a depth of a thousand feet but was abandoned because cf financial troubles new oil company will drill at mountain articles of incorporation of the navajo petroleum corporation capitalized at consisting oi shares which are declared to be fully paid were filed saturday paid tock is predicated on transfer of leaseholds lease holds to the company by L blessing of salt lake as follows sections 28 and 33 township 41 south range 10 east sections 3 and 4 township 42 south range 10 east sections 22 27 34 and 35 41 south range 10 east section 10 township 42 south range 10 east and sections 5 8 and 9 township aa south range 10 east all salt lake base and meridian the directors are joe C amney ot rock springs wye president II 11 A clarke of los angeles first vice president W H H fort collas colo second vice president charles moore of yuba springs calif secretary and treasurer ano E L blessing salt lake managing director f it is understood that this groi men have formed a company for th purpose of putting down a test hole in extreme southeastern utah beai navajo nto definite time for moving in machinery has been set the first objective in drilling wil be the conglomerate which la looked for at a depth ot 1000 feet G L ellis local representative of snowden left yesterday morning for the companas comp anys well on cane creek dome where he will spend several days the snowden well which is being drilled by the midwest exploration la now drilling ahead after experiencing a lot of trouble caused by drilling into a crevice the drill is now under feet and favorable head way is being made the snowden well is located two miles east of tho frank shafer discovery well the location is be lieveld to be a very favorable one as the eastern flank of the structure i being tested progress on this well will be watched with intense inter est as it will probably prove cheth er or not cane creek is a salt dome a theory now generally accepted b most geologists the drilling crews on the J H well on shafer dome returned to camp tuesday after sp nag i few davs in town while wn anin in for repairs for the sand reel J lee arrell tool pusher for crawford lee on the empire gas fuel well on gibson ame is the week in town having been sum mo the illness of his children |