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Show New Locations Announced For Drilling Several new well locations in Utah have received approval by the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, Department of Natural Natur-al Resources. Two new exploratory explor-atory test wells are to be drilled a little more than a mile and a half west of Ferron field, near the townsite of Ferron, Emery County, notes Carlton Stowe, Utah Geological & Mineral Survey specialist. The operator, Fossil Petroleum Corporation, Dallas, will drill the No. 1 and 2 Federal, both scheduled to depths below 7,300 feet. The Ferron field produces oil and gas from a I depth of 7,200 feet. More than I 38,470 barrels of oil and 7.5 billion cubic feet of gas has been produced by seven wells in the field since the area was discovered in 1957. In Duchesne County, Gulf Oil Corporation will drill the No. 1-17C4 County, a projected projec-ted 5,950 foot test well in the Altamont area and three wells are scheduled for drilling in Grand County. There are a 1,250 foot test of the Cedar Mountain formation in Cicso field by Vukasovich Drilling, Grand Junction; 1 1.440 foot Brushy Basin formation well in the Antelope Mesa area just southwest of the town of Cisco, and a projected 5,800 foot test scheduled by Willard Pease Oil & Gas Company in the Westwater area. Pease will also drill a 5,800 foot test of the Ismay formation in San Juan County's Cowboy field, 15 miles south of Blanding. Three 5,400 foot development wells will be drilled by Superior Oil in the McElmo Creek area south of Aneth. |