Show Southeastern Utah OilField on Oil Field News Hews 8 By fly flyr r 1 Don Robinson Of completed wells In Utah during 1961 90 were completed completed completed com com- as oil wells and 44 as gas ga wells a year-end year report o of Petroleum Information reveals Wildcats Increased over the previous year by 22 and were vere per cent successful That Tha was WM good enough to rank Utah third In the region Drilling and exploratory work for the entire state Increased last ast year The Basin was wa responsible for much of the In In- crease Dig Flat Test Awaited A considerable amount of Interest Interest In In- terest has been generated by bythe bythe bythe the plans for another Pure Ol Oil location on the Big nig Flat A lateral lat lat- eral cral offset Is expected to be announced of probably 40 acres The new test Is very likely to tobe tobe tobe be a Mississippian test as the operator has said that the proximity of the Mississippian to the basal Paradox section being produced at Big Flat 5 Indicates Indicate I Mississippian oil The Big Flat 5 well the operator operator opera opera- tor suspects Is bottomed at 10 to feet ab above ve the pian plan Production Is from what Is called by the Clastic Number 17 Big lg Flat 5 is Is' Is shut In Inflow now for fora a second test of b bottom hole pressures On the last day o of testing the well flowed barrels barrels bar bar- of oil contrary to the plus figures released last week Pressures have decreased to from pounds The well however Is behaving very well weB It Is going to be some sometime sometime sometime time before the size of the reservoir reservoir res res- res discovered can be truly evaluated A quarter million cubic feet of gas per day is being produced at the Big Flat 5 The marl market et for the oil produced produced pro pro- at Big mg Flat Is reached by trucking it south to the Texas Texas- New Mexico pipeline Previously oil was sold to Western States Refinery Salt Lake Cumulative Grand Production Product figures for 1961 as reported by the Utah Oil Report last wee week reflect the last years year's production exploration ratio for this county very well Big lg Flat produced a modest barrels barrels bar bar- Salt Wash and the two wells near Cisco barrels Salt Wash Completed Pan American Petroleum has completed the No 1 Suniland State at Salt Wash Grand County as a Mississippian oil oU well It Is rated at 47 barrels of oil per day and close to cubic feet of gas gas- Grand Co Texaco Test An announced new test by Texaco Inc In Grand County Is one of the most Interesting Items of news in oil and gas development here this week The new test will be located about one mile west of the recent discovery discovery dis dis- dis covery of oil in Mississippian formation at Salt Wash by Pan American Petroleum The Texaco Texaco Tex Tex- aco test will wUl be known as the Smoot No 1 and will wUl be drilled about feet from the north northline northline northline line and feet from the east eastline eastline line of Section 17 T 23 S R fl 17 E E. It will be drilled to a proposed pro posed depth of feet to the Mississippian formation Hearings Postponed Unitization of ot Lisbon Field received another setback last week when the Utah Oil and Gas Conservation Commission granted a n postponement of hearings hearings hear hear- ings on acre drilling units unita in Lisbon Valley The postponement was made on motion of Petroleum and has been reset react for April 5 1962 at the commission offices It had ad appeared with the announcement by Pure Oil on of a recycling plant that the Lisbon Valley hassle was moving toward a conclusion N News Newl wi of the Area In the first cores corea taken by ClUes Cities Cities Service Petroleum at nl State C NE NB SW Section 36 Twp 15 Range flange Carbon County oil showings were found The operator la js stilt still coring crin on it Its from a discovery well amile n a nn n mile le south The discovery well a prod producer completed for tor 81 84 barrels a day was wa considered considered considered con con- a major development of 1961 1861 Southern Natural Naturel Gas Gu is II below belOW below be be- low 2800 feet on their interesting interesting interest interest- ing test down the Colorado Colondo River mv The he foot toot Devonian aP test is II relative difficult to follow fol- fol f fol follow low due doe to the unique s location n. n A Grand County test tt that is JI drawing drewing Interest on the basis of act acreage around it is 11 t the e Continental Conti- Conti j OU OD location in the Blase Canyon ar s in Section clon 15 Twp 25 S. S 1 WB- WB I is II not cloi clam to crucial t tat by br ur ny nw m mat at s only Uy 1100 feet teet but best It 11 should aheu d develop develop- lop Tb Tare wu is ta In U. U am Ita leave have bad had ga gu shows chows |