| Show r 1 C f i Southeastern l t A M on oil Fi ld News By er ByI I 1 Don Robinson I Southern Natural Gas Gos has das completed their Long Canyon wildcat Grand County for Cor a 11 potential of or barrels Is of ot oil per day The 1 Long Canyon SE NW Section Seddon 9 Twp 1 Ran Range e was ww completed In the Paradox salt 91 the flow Clow coming from perforations per pcr between and feet teet The R gauge Ruge uge of oC CCO barrels barrels bar bar- refs of oil per day was reported by Petroleum letro um Information and andS S said to be through G 64 choke over eight right hours Other reports say varying size Chokes doke were used In determining determining ing a barrel 40 per hour flow The oil recovered was light green amber in color and reportedly re re- I degree 42 gravity The new well vellis is 3 miles east cast arum and south of Big i Flat Unit andis andis and nod is the second flanking Clanking success by Southern Natural to Big Flat FlatIn In the past year The operator completed a n Paradox producer In south Big Flat last spring has since reworked it an and has production Participating reportedly Uy in inthe the test were interest holders Gulf Gull Oil on and Humble Oil OU and I Refining Reclining Company Resembles Pure Test Southern Natural is said to believe that the seismic feature found at Long Canyon differs from the Pure Oil success ait al north Big Flat The two wells are very similar simi stet tar tar lar however Pure has completed the Big Flat 5 three miles north of Big Flat for barrels of oil per day from a clastic elastic break within the salt Oil om there was of degree 43 gravity from perforations perforations perforations feet later from froma fromn a a n larger pay zone following ng re- re completion Both tests explored the l and found gas In quan quan- Pure Oil reported that the gas found in the MissI was In inert rt and contained enough n to make a future look possible I 1 Southern Natural found five cubic feet daily of gas in hi Uthe Eithe 1 the Mississippian l mainly lly J nitrogen nitrogen nitro nitro- igen gen and with per cent fl helium Both wells u. plugged back for completion in what is L believed believed believed be be- to be the ilie Can Creek marker marker Four for Big Flat The Big Flat area now has four feu producing oil wells three of them thorn in Grand County Sou Southern South South- ern em Natural has two as mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- and drilled one failure at South Big Flat Pure Oil OU also has two t and will attempt to le- le H. H work a In previously abandoned well for a third Pure has been waiting wailing on approval to rework the salt on the Big Flat 2 well They are moving on the hole hote at present Big Flat 3 Pure Oil Is the only well of the four not producing pro pro- during from the Pennsylvanian well indi indicating 1 It Is a l cating eating the complexity of the Big Flat structure Two New Locations Northern Grand County which has dominated exploration news for two months lists two more tests announced aMO last week Belco Petroleum will test r r again the re recently formed West- West bit Unit with a toot foot En- En probe The 3 is located in C SW Section 31 Twp Range West San Arroyo Ar Area a. a Belco had a success three miles south The test is four tour miles northwest of San Arroyo field ld where Sinclair has a large f development drilling program underway Pacific I Natural Gas will wm rework rework rework re- re work an old well Wen that registered i ail oil and gas before going to water t in the Segundo Canyon unit The 1 Unit SW SE Section 9 9 Twp Range flange produced previously from f fro r o m perforations i to feet teet r 1 News of 0 th the Area A new oil play is developing in in the area arca immediately north mahout labout three miles of eQ Dove Creek Colo Continental Oil OU has hasa as asa a deep test locating there re now Grand County n now w has 2 locations once arse again a new rec rec- record record ord for the county More tore encouraging en en- is a high success ratio in both oil oU land and gas exploration during the past two months Belco is de coring near their projected depth at It the 1 Foy Floy Unit Grand County The te ted tet offsets the Salt Wash field by 1 14 mites miles to the northeast t 1 I |
