Show Cane Creek Anticline Offers Hopes of Becoming Big Field The Tha Cane Creek Anticline is th the scene of one of the most st exhaustive tive exploration and drilling pro pro- programs programs grams In hi search of oil or ga gain gas in Southeastern Utah and and has re reo re- suited In the discovery of the highest highest high high- est cst grade of ot paraffin base crude ol oil yet ret encountered anywhere There Then have lave have been many problems drilling In this area arts due mainly to the in In in- of the better prospective pros pros- mechanical drilling sites a and d also the thi many nany mechanical and and technical technIcal failures allures In trying to produce product the thi oil and gas found by the Ule extensive drilling M Al G 4 O. O Mason Los Angeles 01 Oil Operator who has spent in excess ex ex- excess cess of building building roads t to the drilling sites Is one good example example ex ex- ample of the rugged nature of ot th the country in this area Prior to building building build build- ing of this expensive road the property property pro pro- perty perlY could only be reached bUild I by bj heats boats and barges which transported transport transport- ed all all' of the men equipment anc and supplies for the necessary drilling operations a distance of twenty miles down the Colorado River Yet Yel with all of the costly d development work which has run In in excess ol of 3 million dollars At 1 M G. G Mason Masor the Pr President and Operator for foi f Petroleum Inc Amerl Amen col Petroleum Inc Petroleum Petroleum Petroleum Petro Petro- leum Inc and D. D J J. J Oil Co who together hold most of the acreage on the axis of the Cane Creek Anticline has made three major discoveries of high gravity paraffin paraffin fin base oil in the Pennsylvania zone that have proven sensational to the oil world Petroleum Inc is now in Inthe Inthe the he process of making a deeper Mississippian Mississippian zone test which should prove to be a higher producer than han the Pennsylvania series according according ac ac- cording to the best st informed geologists geol- geol engineers and oil men throughout this area Active operation on the Cane Creek Anticline was begun by Mr Mason on May 12 1950 While a the property Is only approximately seven and one half air miles from Moab the only method of reaching it was by boats and barges over some twenty miles mlle of treacherous waters of the Colorado River Then the seemingly impossible task of ol building a road along the river was begun This engineering feat yet yetto yetto yetto to be equaled in this part of the country entailed passing vertical cliffs by blasting and dozing them into 20 to 45 feet of swift water and then building the level of the road above the high water mark mack of ol the river with trucks loaders and heavy earth moving equipment They now have almost completed approximately twenty miles of all weather road to 10 their property Drilling la this area Is very difficult difficult difficult cult due to the tricky formation which is encountered within a few feet of the surface very hard and beset with loss of circulation through out However However How How- ever upon entering the lower member mem- mem ben ber Der of the Pennsylvania series The Paradox there is encountered the limestone and sedimentary salt sal formations which Is easily drilled only difficulty is keeping the hole conditioned by a R constant and careful careful careful care care- ful check on the drilling fluid so as not to create cavities In the salt sections by dissolving it I The oil produced Is a high gravity paraffin base oil 42 deI de- de I I greet grees gravity and has a high flow now I point with only a small percentage discernable of paraffin wax and no sulpher asphalt or other Impurities ties lies present The lube stock and gasoline are exceptionally high in quality and percentage Most of the zones have an excellent oil and gas ratio with high pressures and excellent permeability and porosity which will definitely prove the wells will be long lived flowing wells I Mr Mason assisted by some of ot the best geologists engineers and andon oil on men in n the country and the major oil on field service companies operating in the west have worked out the lie drilling procedures and techniques to be used in the drilling drilling ling of what is hoped to be one of the most prolific oil fields in inthe inthe inthe the world the Cane Creek Anticline Anti Antl cline This will be a wonderful thing for Moab Grand County ant and South Eastern Utah where there has been a very large payroll am and andI purchasing power in the past anc and I will multiply many ny times in the I future I |