Show Pure Pare Oil Test Near Neer Tab Moab firings Brings Oil Gas Show 4 iT i d de x r e 4 3 F fl I 1 t j I f 1 fit r rye 1 ye d 4 r k D I r t ar r k t I III PURE OIL OU TEST Efforts Tuesday evening brought this Pure OH Oil Company test under control after six days of extreme oil and gas pressure The operation located on the Big Dig Flat structure some ten miles west of Moab was reported running an estimated five million cubic of gas per day and thirty barrels of oil per hour while efforts were being made to bring it under control T T-I Staff Start Photo The oil oU exploration picture In Grand county brightened considerably this week with the announcement by Pure Oil all Company of what appeared to be bo a a. substantial flow of gas and oil at the tho firms firm's wildcat on the Big Flat sonic some ten miles due west of Moab After Arter six days of attempting to bring the Well velt under control it was reported that this had been accomplished Tuesday evening and work was continuing towards setting the well up for a production test as soon as possible The Pure test which was orIginAlly originally or ors slated for completion at around the foot level wasat was wasat wasat at the horizon between and when the oil and gas show was encountered It Was estimated ed on Saturday that the gas flow had Increased to around five million million mil mil- lion cubic feet dally daily and oil had increased to an estimated 30 barrels bar bar- barrels an hour hOUt although no definite test could be made at that time Heavy drilling mud was pumped pump pump- ed Into the well wel throughout the week in an attempt to control the extreme pressure and Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night saw the structure tamed tamed tamed tam ed to the point where further work could continue It was reported that on Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day while the drilling mud was being pumped into the hole that even with the he valves p partially open the well made around 10 barrels an hour Gas and oil were being bled bied away from the well by means of a flow line and burned burned burned burn burn- ed In a pit several hundred feet from the rig The Pure test bel being g drilled bythe by bythe bythe the Anschutz Drilling company was in n shortly after the first of tho the year It is the fourth well to be drilled on the Big Flat I structure in recent years and was placed after extensive rp plc lc mapping in the Big Flat area It was reported earlier that these seismic techniques of penetrating penetrate ing over feet teet of Paradox salt had revealed that the present location was structurally located at least a D. hundred feet higher I on top fop of the tM MissIssippian beds I than other previous tests in the Big Flat area by King Oil Company Company Company Com Com- pany and the Ruby interests It was not definitely known at this date whether or not the well would be completed at this depth It appears that much depends depends de des desponds ponds on the t test sr at which operations oper opere operations are now aimed which will give an indication on what the well wall would prod produce test data and measurements willbe willbe will willbe be necessary before plans are completed of officials i stated In charge of drilling operations which have hv corns coma along Inn smoothly smooth smooth- ly by jy since ce tt the w well i was wu I in inin inin I in January is John Williams The Pure location Is just off oft the road to Grandview Point on the Big Flat situated between Dead Horse Norse Point and the Neck |