Show T Y Southeastern Uta Oit Jt t itt U J By ByDon L Don Robinson E I Activity on two more fronts headed th this weeks week's oil on news Attention Attention At At- centered on the Hudson Wash area of San Juan County where Cities Service Oil all will deepen ian an old test to the Devonian Devonian Devo Devo- nian and the Onion Creek area of Grand County where Richfield Richfield Richfield Rich Rich- field Oil all has become active City Service Oil au will drill out farm-out acreage from Lion Oil au Monsanto deepening a well drilled by Gulf Oil all In 1957 The now new operator will deepen from feet to the at feet The lo location location lo lo- cation 14 miles south of Moab Is rated as an excellent prospect by Independent geologists According According According Ac Ac- cording to reports In Moab this Is but one of a a. series of deep tests to be drilled on the acre acre- age Confirming reports that a n new Interest was developing north and east cast of Moab Richfield Oil all allis Is expected to announce a location location location loca loca- tion for a n foot Cambrian test in the Onion Creek area The Onion Creek drainage Is to the Colorado River up-river up from Castle Valley There has been no drilling in the Immediate Immedi ate area and no deep probes anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where close to the area There Thare has been considerable seismic activity in the area north of Onion Creek with reports credIting crediting cred cred- Richfield with intent to drill Pure Now flow on Murphy Well Pure Oil on has moved on the Murphy Corporation Little Val ley 1 in Grand County Murphy took the well to approximately feet encountering no commercially commercially com corn promising shows below below below be be- low the salt although reports credited the well with oil recovery recovery ery cry in an upper zone The Little Valley 1 is about five miles from Pure Oils Oil's Big Flat 3 where that operator is still trying to complete a difficult well Six miles niles south of Moab E. E B. B LaRue Jr has apparently stopped stopped stop stop- ped drilling of the No 1 Moab Anticline at just below feet The well is drawing heavy attention from sever several majors The attention is In part due to the newly announced Bridger Jack unit in which 15 companies or more have working Interests and which Is relatively near the LaRue location The interest could well be in what the operator operator oper oper- ator did not find r rather ther than what he did find reports say The well was originally scheduled ed to test the McCracken at 10 10 feet General Area News Construction on the half million million million mil mil- lion dollar mile 16 gas line of Grand Valley Transmission Co is underway in northern Grand County The project will bring gas gag from the Westwater field where Oil Inc of Salt Lake City has producing wells to the main maln line of El Paso Natural Gas Co In addition to the main maln six- six inch line three-inch three lines Unes are being constructed to tie the wells together Treatment facilities are to tobe be erected at Westwater Contractor for the construction is F. F II IL Linneman of Denver There are at present resent twelve locations or drillIng drilling drill drill- Ing in Lisbon Valley Eight of these belong to the field discoverer discoverer Pure Oil all Belco Petrol Petroleum um has two locations one of them now coring good oil and gas shows in a zone just above the McCracken n. n Coring is below Belco's third well well the the first was dry dry Is Is not underway and Apache have the theother theother theother other locations In Lisbon Valley Val Va ley with the latter approaching critical depth on Its No 1 Federa Fed Fed- era eral The operator was reported to be drilling below feet Is near feet teet on their test Grand County locations have dropped off oft to seven but six of these are drilling or in the process process pro pro- I cess of ot completion |