Show OIL NEWS Pure Oil Well on Big Flat Flowing Barrels Per Day Field Superintendent John Wll- Wll Hams lams In charge of extracting oil from Pure Oil company's producer pro pro- ducer on the Big Flat west of Moab this week announced that production of oil was started af after after af- af ter ter er storage facilities had been completed and arid that crude oil oilI I rom from rem Grand county was now making mak- mak ing the too trip to the refinery at regular intervals He said that hi he well has been flowing at the rate of barrels of gra vity crude oil per day since It was was opened Sunday and that the oil was being sold to the West West- em m States Stales refinery in Salt Lake City Tank trucks are hauling the he product to the railhead at Thompson from where it is hauled by railroad tank car over the Denver Rio Grande route to to the Salt Lake refinery Mr Williams and his crew of ol I three men are now permanent residents of the area and will operate operate operate op op- op- op erate the well for the major oil company I Th Jh unit had been shut in for forthe forthe the the past several weeks after It il was was announced by Pure that they had iad ad a producing well In the neighborhood of 01 barrels per day a month ago The shut down was as caused by the fact that adequate ade ade- quate storage space had to be constructed before the long long- range plan of extracting the crude oil could be begun Company officials are pleased I has that this weeks week's production been on a natural flow It was believed believed that pumps would wold be from the outset to get the oil out The well is situated Just off the Grand View Point road some jwo wo miles south of the Knoll on the Big Flat Fiat between the Green and Colorado rivers I J Plans for an foot test on the ho Big Flat were announced this week eek by McRae Oil on and Gas Company which has over overA overs A s checkerboard lease spread from Byrd Oil on company The location I for lor the well wen Is In the northwest part of Grand county lying in section 25 S. S 18 East near the head of Spring canyon which drains into the Green river It I will II b be located some lome four tour or five piles lies north of the present drilling drill drill- drill I drillIng ng ing site alte of Federal Oil on company end and will be reached by taking I Ithe the th same road into the area from Highway 13 23 miles north of Moab I The company announced this pos as s being a test of the Mississippian plan pian formation and is said by some to be one of a series of ot Jests ests of this formation slated for forthe forthe forI the northern end of the Paradox Parado I basin The other two operations the Big Dig Flat Pure Oils Oil's on producer producer producer pro pro- ducer and Federal Oil Oh company's well vell which Is now being tested are in the neighborhood of feet deep Federal Oil company President Norman Jacobs announced this week that cement in the Federal company well on the Bowknot portion of the Big Flat had been set pet et and tUbing and production heads had arrived for immediate testing We reported last week that the hole had been bottomed and cement run for testing and completion work ater after after af- af ter very favorable cores were pulled from the hole I Officials state this week that the he Denman Drilling g company trig rig which drilled the hole has hasp p peen been een moved off ort and a surfacing rig is now moving in tn to do the Completion work In addition to Mr Jacobs at the well wen Is Dick Garrard who will wll wille be pe e in charge of the completion work for Federal J. J Murray Ruby Rubys is s geologist for the company I a With all ail preparations dons complete it It was stated Wednesday that thai completion work would get under underway underway way immediately I Geologist H. H R. R announced anI announced an an- I pounced this week that the Menor Me Me- nor nor- Aubrey Aubrey well situated four miles south of Crescent Junction originally proposed as a Paradox test would be deepened an undetermined number of feet to test the original objective The well is now being drilled at a point near the toot root level Mr stated I Gulf Oil company announced this week plans for a foot wildcat test on the Colorado river south of Moab in San Juan coun- coun ty y The approximate location of the the unit would be near Lockhart basin Location for the well which will be known as the Gulf Lockhart Aztec Lockhart Federal No I will wiil be 1320 feet from the south line and feet teet from trans the west westline line of Section 22 22 Township 28 5 Range 20 East |