Show a. a 1 Barrels of Utah Oil Coil Refined Here During 1956 Utah which was pumping no not t oil oft front It Its lands In commercial r r quantities a decade ago poured t nearly barrels of Its Us own t rude crude oil to refineries last year h A study completed this week J by the Bureau Dureau of Economic and Business sC Re-sC Research at the University University sity of Utah showed shoved the number i of ot producing wells In Utah and andt t the number of barrels of crude crud oil ll they have delivered h has mounted mount mount- ed steadily since 1948 reaching t wells and barrels last year I At the same ame time the study tudy showed Utah refined almost 14 t times s as u much muth oil last year as f Utah wells delivered I j Osmond L. L Marline lUrline director of ot the Bureau Dureau of Economic and Buss Bus J Iness less Research said refineries Ini In Inthe i I the state processed I barrels of at crude oil delivered from wells In Wyoming and Colora Colorado Colo Colo- ra redo rado o as well wen as in Utah Utah's first oil well was drilled drill drill- I ed d In Grand county In 1891 r Explorations led to no sustained commercial production though i until 1948 when Ashley Valley Uintah county began pumping crude oil the director said By Dy 1950 the delivery of crude oil from Utah wells well passed one million barrels In 1955 1953 annual production passed two million I 1 barrels and the barrels delivered last year represented In estimated value Since 1948 about 25 oil pools and fields have been discovered In Utah Oil all refining in the state has grown Just as rapidly since 1950 as u crude oil production has Mr Harline said The Tho barI barrels bar bars refs processed professed by Utah refineries I I last year more than doubled the barrels which the refineries refineries re reo re- re fineries processed in 1950 I Of twenty nine states producing producing ling ing crude oil last year twenty twenty- one produced more than Utah But Dut of thirty-nine thirty states refining oil lost hist year only thirteen refined ed more than Utah the director said The petr petroleum leum Industry now has the third largest payroll among the manufacturing industries industries ries rles of ot the state he ht said The future promises continued expansion expansion expansion sion and growth in the Industry As Intermountain markets become more industrialized and more heavily populated the demand for petroleum products will grow and expansion and growth undoubtedly undoubtedly edly will follow he said |