Show Oil and Drilling News Company Signs to Deepen Well On n Cane Creek Oil and gas activity on three fronts two of them new InGrand inGrand in inGrand I Grand county has attention attention at nt northward from tion-scarce tion Lisbon Valley this week The new areas are the Big DIg Flat where Pure Oils Oil's No 3 Big DIg Flat location Is being made active active active ac ac- ac- ac tive by Arapahoe Drilling and the Cane Creek Creek field where Trans Continental Oil OU Corporation Corporation Corporation Corpora Corpora- Corpora Corpora- tion will deepen the old No 1 well Arapahoe Drilling moved on the Big Flat location last we week lt for an foot toot McCracken test Trans Continental Oil OU will rework and the No 1 possibly deepening below the theold theold theold old total depth of feet teet The we well was plugged back to feet leet after a lost Th Tha Th location local for the Calgary Canada operator is listed as a pian-Devonian pian test test The Utah Oil Report states this week that the Stateline Gas Field In northern Grand county has been extended about 1 4 miles north and west by B W. W Hancock a C California in in- depe dependent dent Willard Pease DrillIng Drilling Drilling Drill Drill- ing Co drilling the entire hole with air completed the natural gas well at a total depth of feet The combined flow was D' D of good 1050 BTU gas ens Sunray Mid Continent Oil on Corp reportedly has found gas in the Dakota at its No 3 Diamond Diamond Diamond Dia Dia- mond Ridge unit unit three miles south of established gas production production i tion in the same field The operator operator operator oper oper- ator is deepening to to the Entrada I This Is the s second cond success for the U operator who earlier announced announced announced an an- Intention of ot conducting I Ia a year-long year drilling program inthe in inthe inthe the area Elsewhere In Grand county Taylor Delhi-Taylor Is making oil as aswell aswell we well as potash news It Is re re- re- re I ported that Taylor Delhi has been approached by an operator in Interested in deepening the core holes on Cane Creek to test for tor oil all or gas Murphy Corporation in the West Cane Creek area has lost circulation on their Cambrian test Total depth is reported as feet teet More for Lisbon Valley Unofficial sources say that Pure Oil on will stake locations for tor four more wells in the Lisbon area Six operations are underway underway underway under under- way there now Pure Belco Deleo Elliott Elliott El El- liott Production and Apache Drilling are are- the actives now Two reports credit the Pure No 2 NW Lisbon with flowing 75 and 85 barrels of oil all per hour on drill stem test The tight hole reportedly has penetrated the McCracken zone The operators operator's third well one mile northwest of the discovery is about te feet t short short of the projected to to- to i I I I tal depth Two vo miles north of the Pure No 3 Belco Deleo Petroleum is reported report report- ed coring below feet t. t JNo No showings have been reported Elliott Production drilling west of ot the Pure discovery 1 12 I miles In distance has had gas gasnow flow now from Irom the Mississippian and andis is coring ahead to test the Devo De De- De- De vo vonian i t. t At the other two locations Belco Deleo has set surface pipe at the State No 2 one mile south and west of the Pure discovery and anda a aJ rotary tary rig General Area News New King Oil Co Salt Lake City has announced it will share in inthe inthe inthe the cost of ot drilling the Pure No 3 DIg Big Flat The company has a 25 per cent working in Interest erest in Pure's Big Flat Unit Leasing after atter a slow week has picked up again and again and Grand county is among the leaders Only major Involved is Gulf Oil The projected subterranean gas storage unit next to Moab Is Involving a mammoth cement job possibly the largest ever seen in the area Storage ponds for water have been built and the operation is expected to move ahead at an increased pace now that some of the many difficulties have been overcome |