Show MAJOR OIL DISCOVERY IN S. S E. E UTAH U l. l I PETROLEUM Inc BRINGS IN BIG OIL WELL ON CANE CREEK TO PROVE GREAT NEW SE UTAH FIELD Moab Utah Utah-It was reliably r reported port 1 today that tM the M M. G. G M. M Petroleum well M. M G G. M M. No 1 made a drill stem forma test and flowed amber green paraffin oil at the rate of 2660 barrels per day through oa aone one inch bottom hole bole choke The Pressure readings showed an In W ail flow of 1100 lbs Ibs per square Inch The o open Cn zone zon Was the interval between and feet a 09 total of twenty feet being In the Paradox series of tire the Pennsylvania Pennsy vania fOrmation While the G Ma Mason son Los Angeles oil man and Supt John believe the zo zone e is ds of Still k ness It might be hazardous to 0 at first well as the possibilities of bottom hole hale water waterways Is pres res ent After opening the ton tester the o oil t reached the top of the ground ft in four minutes a and fifty seconds High Gravity The oil oH encountered Jn In the well wel wellis is 15 a high gravity paraffin base oil all and has a high low flow point with only a small percentage of paraffin present and no discernable sulfur or oth er The ube tube oil oi stock and gasoline prese preset t is except high in quality and per No exact figures on this are arc available at this time The oil gas ratio seems to be excellent and the operator M M. q G Ma Mason ni does not expect any serious serious' problem in g the theas gas as until a hi nto inte the field d. d The we well Is 10 o. o cat d on Sec 36 T R SoO S. L. L LM M. M May Many Obstacles This well weI was November Novem Novem- bet ber I 1 1952 and has encountered many obstacles In Its It I drilling In th while the well wellis is only seven and one hell hedl miles m tram from Moab Utah the u on ly u meth meth- od of caching fe C the me we well was oy by private toad road built by bythe the corn com any pany and the Petro Petro- ileum Inc extending down the Colorado River thence by barge or boat some fourteen miles over very shoat shoal water most of the year The M M. G. G M M. PetrOleum Inc has forces wIth the Petroleum Inc In building the River Bluer Oil Road long along the bank of the Colorado River nd ot day took the first truck direct to the oil well weld It WAS wasa orb Oib tandem drIven acid truck we understand to be used for the wail While the road for the lar-the the most part partis Is stiLl in the sough rough stage con work will w be carried on first to make it easily pass pan able then above the river water high mark then surfaced sur faced for lor easy transport This Ins River Road is certainly an engineering feat eat yet to be equal led In this part of the thc country passing vertical cliffs b shooting shoot shoot- i Ing them down into 20 to 30 beet teet of water and dozing and shoot I lag Ing the greater part of its ens en tire length The road is built so solely ly by the company and Am Petroleum Ina I Tank Farm and ad Pi line The Tank Farm J approximately five miles north I West of the M M. G G. M. M No 1 dl covery well over Very tU rugged ed terrain and approximately feet leet higher in elevation than I Ithe the well A two stage Dennl son eon vane pump has bas been rushed I to the weLl site to pump ee oil up to the tank farm lann through Ute the high pressure pipe mine line that Just been completed to the tank farm The Tank Farm ted on the JUg Big Plat pilat good good down down hill road known s 's the Dead I ead Horse Point iid rod joins the Moab Crescent Jupe tion highway about twelve mites miles out of Moab Wf We understand that tha t the oil will be trucked to tankers to Salt Lake City or orl to Crescent where It will w by Ute D G Railway la Ia The well we encountered more than Its share of of difficulties and heartbreak in and was finally bottomed at feet with an attendant fishl g job where oa a large flow ow of oil and gas defInitely Ia a large producing zone of high gravity oil was ens en countered FinaLly the drill collars mia core barrel burel end wash W over pipe was cemented In the hole holo and a 18 was set After again again reaching the large production horizon the e on broke and dropped ropp the entire strIng of pipe h snapped In two at feet beet i ia In Ina a salt cavity necessitating another an an- other very difficult fishIng job on an eventual plug back to feet Falling to slant the hOle sufficiently to avoid the cavIty still another was as set but due to too much salt sait In the formation was The w well H was binally L back to 2638 feet and 4 f iL t M I 1 J II ter J if tt r i y I I. I on u n l t ifs t d y aS tJ w I I 1 1 tr It t t f J hf h- h I l' l h 0 U ui t i J 1 1 0 49 i it t Ai t from rom that poInt a 4 heavy flow of oil at feet which was previously passed up Thumbnail Geology The production horizon Is in 1 tire Penn fo formation known as the Paradox series and has been dubbed dubs dub bed the M M. G. G This n Js approximately 27 rn years of age and end I has baa been a producer of millions of barrels of of tine Sine oil rl known the the- world over over over- as Pennsylvania OW so dubbed because it was round bound ln In la Ia j hen hence the geological name well weli enters ens en- the Hermosa series of the- the Penn alter after feet teet sa formation vest vest- of difficult to drill being bath b tb hud hard and beset wIth Joss of circa tM throughout However up on entering the dower Bower member erles the the- the Paradox you enter the lime nm r I Ione one and salt for for- formation oration mation which wh is easily Deeper I AcCording to the best inform ed petroleum engineers end and ce l the heMi and Devonian geologIcal series serle tea tm- delayIng the eer eer les tee should be even 1 more ore prolific n production but only the will teN tell the story Su SuIt Suffice It to say that if the lower hor zona are anywhere near em po Wc as Americo Mason No lor l'or M M. G. G Ms M's M M. M GM Nold In the then said that Utah will certainly lt l of t I Jot It will w be thee thoi program of at M. M G. G M. M Petroleum Inc to several wells to the di horizon by systematically ott off setting ia along ong the until the Js property 1 ed up then to explore re the d t if deeper product other resent 15 deepest production t of t feet found ett zo 0 Poe fast and good permit Looks Looks' Like Real Producer f. f 01 Th The initial test of e M. M G G. M M. No well points to a teal pro J ducer wI with tb many adjoining We s to be drilled on the Cane Oane Creek Anticline a 11 j The M. M G MNo lw lwis is 2344 beet teet we NOl I f the Petroleum Ida which wa a high due t tto to Inability to l hae h. riot ot Y It been put on p Wes We-I We c tf un howeVer that jot j will soon be ba ck 1 to tire the flow flor feet This a a r was by 11 G. G Maspn M v- v An Angeles eles and its flow wU wK witnessed by some of the out StandIng the coup countrY and pronounced a. a sensation l oil we well I. I P The M M. CM No 1 weli illy prove up a large aT area rea and andt s ee loates r the judge G M. M G. G Mason the operator founder a ams' ams president of both MG M. M Petroleum Pe- Pe Inc and Inc and basi bas brought r ra a a. very ands pur r t x t chasing power 1 11 It vision s this that makes tori and end J that has made America great and i strong f r p t I 1 i No a OD TheW 7 The C M No t 1 weN tr b been cased with 5 t tand rl and Is now In the process of et el d ding ing completed and put on pro The tremendous task Uk of drilling dr j having been a ted May we say Tar M. M I PEP p t s I LEUM IC and spay may we wish 9 you eve success yO roll r fl express our ur app cl 1 t t pe ot ort t t untold wealth fore lor Moab 1 t Utah and t tr r J t l. l fj t rg K ss 3 ma wv ra Scene of the the M. M WI Ci E- E 4 i properties laying across the axis of Creek tt The well flowed at barrels a day one labo t I h I choke before the bole was W i. i |