Show Cane Creek Anticline Offers Mopes Hopes of Becoming Big Field The Cane Creek Anticline is the scene of ot one of the most exhaustive exhaustive tive exploration and drilling programs programs programs pro pro- grams In search of oil or gas In Southeastern Utah anti and has re re- re suited In the discovery of the highest highest highest high high- est grade of paraffin base crude oil yet et encountered anywhere There have lave been many problems drilling In n this area due mainly to the In In- I of the better prospective prospective prospective pros pros- drilling sites and also the many mechanical and technical failures allures in trying to produce the oil and gas found by the extensive drilling M J G a G. G Mason Los Angeles Oil Operator who has spent in excess ex cess of building building roads to the drilling sites Is one good ex ex- x ample of the rugged nature of the country In this area Prior to buildIng building build build- Ing of this expensive road the properly properly pro pro- perly erty could only be reached by boats oats and barges which transported transport transport- ed all all' of the men equipment and supplies for the necessary drilling operations a distance of twenty miles down the Colorado River Yet with all of the costly development work which has run In excess of 3 million dollars M M. M G a. a Mason the President and Operator for MaM Petroleum Inc Amerl Amen col cot Petroleum Inc Petroleum Petro Petro- leum bum Inc and D 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 paraffin fin base oil In the Pennsylvania zone that have proven sensational to the oil oU world Petroleum Inc is now In Inthe Inthe the he process of making a deeper Mississippian zone test which should prove rove to be a higher producer than han the Pennsylvania series according according ac ae cording to the best Informed geol geol- engineers and oil men men throughout this area Active operation on the Cane Creek Anticline was begun by Mr Mason on May 12 1950 While the property is only approximately seven and one half air miles from Moab the only method of reaching It t was by boats and barges over some twenty miles of treacherous waters of the Colorado River Then the seemingly impossible task of 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 ol of the river with trucks loaders and heavy earth moving movin equipment They They- now have alm almost st c completed approximately twenty miles of all weather road to their property Drilling in this area is very difficult dim dim- cult due to the tricky Hermosa formation which is encountered within a few feet of the surface very hard and beset with wilh loss of circulation through out However however How how- ever upon entering the lower member member member mem mem- ber of the Pennsylvania series The Paradox there is encountered the limestone and sedimentary sal I formations which is easily drilled only difficulty Is keeping the hoi holl conditioned by a II constant and care careful careful ful check on the drilling fluid sias si Sl sias as not to create cavities in thi salt sections by dissolving it The oil produced is a high gravid paraffin base oil 42 dc do deI I grees gravity and has hM a high flow nO point with only a small percentage of paraffin wax and no sulpher asphalt or other Impurities impurities ties tics present resent The lube stock and gasoline a oline are arc exceptionally high It ir quality and percentage Most ol of the zones have an excellent oil and gas ratio with high pressures and excellent ratio With permeability and porosity which will definitely prove the wells will be long lived JIved flowing wells Mr Mason assisted by some ol of the best geologists engineers and oil men in tn the country and the major oil oU field service companies operating In the west have worked out the drilling procedures and techniques to be used in the drilling drilling drU ling of what is hoped to be one of the most prolific oil fields Inthe in inthe inthe the world the Cane Creek Anticline Anti Anti- cline This will be a wonderful thing for Moab Grand County and South Eastern Utah where there has hns been a very large payroll and andi purchasing power In the past and the i will multiply many ny times es aln in the I future |