Show Pan American Strike Sheds New ew Light on Big Flat A hoped for northerly movement of ot southeastern m Utah's current boom in fn n oil oU exploration received added Impetus impetus Im fm- im- im petus Monday with unofficial repot reports that Pan American Petroleum Co had recovered ga gas and condensate high gravity oil at the operators operator's Salt Wash Vash Wildcat thirty air miles north and west of Moab Tho The location a foot Devonian tt teat et t is tho the only action taking place in the northwest t area of Grand county since a recent dry ry hole drilled by Superior Oil Co at tho I Bowknot along the Green Groen River The Tho Pan PM American discovery discovery dis din covery is also near the Green river but slightly south toward Moab To the southwest 22 miles away is Big Flat where Pure OH on and other Interest holders holden have drilled three tests completing com corn the third for the only success in the area between the rivers North of Pan American by three miles or more Is a failure fall fail ure nrc that had no reported shows The hoped for Implication is a southern direction for develop ment The Pan American well weD re reportedly reportedly reo re- po recovered the gas and condensate from the upper Mis in much the same form as that recovered at Lisbon Lis Us- bon Valley In early drilling there thereby thereby by Pure Oil Co the field din dis coverer Salt Wash lies along a line southeast to northwest that In Includes In In- eludes Lisbon Field Big Flat and at its most northerly end Grand Fault near Green River where Superior has had good shows of oil and gas cut mud This so-called so Lisbon trend hasas has hasas hasas as its southern end San Miguel county Colorado where Pure Oil on and Belco Petroleum have had hod significant successes This somewhat nebulous geological geo ceo logical line has not seen consistent consistent con con- success along its entire length It passes some six to ten mile mUe west of Moab through areas of exploration that thaI have not been proven to be tive There appears ppe r ho however er to be evidence of oil or and/or gas gas along tic tHe lic In a fairly consistent pattern Of times tests have have found the promising zones to be lackl lacking g in porosity and permeability though gas and oil all allare I are In ia evidence Humble Oil on and Refining and E. E B. B LaRue Jr drilled failures along the line line- west of Moab last year with evi evidence evidence evi- evi dence of ot the above evaluation In each case I There are reports from meni- meni bers hers of the Industry Industry- of a 41 stepped stepped step ped pod up exploration program al along along al al- ong the trend and a reevaluation reevaluation re evalu of Grand county areas inthe inthe Inthe in the hopes of another Lisbon Valey Valley Valley Val- Val ley ey type gas condensate pool Pan American apparently cored cor or- or cc ed the interval between and feet in the upper Mis Mis- an an recovering cores bleeding bleed ing lag gas and condensate The Trie gas as local oilmen say Is la non non- burnable and has been gauged on one test at a rate of seven seveno to o eight million cubic feet dally daily Grand county currently Is enjoying enjoying en- en a high point for locations with sixteen listed for the en en- tire lre county thirteen of th those e eIn in inthe the northern gas fields |