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Show Western States Drilling tig Picture Improving Petroleum Information Corporation Cor-poration reports rig employment employ-ment in the Rocky Mountain states continues to climb upward. For the second week in a row rig employment increased in the western states with a total of 190 currently at work, compared with 182 the previous week and 175 in early February. The current level of rigs working is 83 below the tally on the comparable date a year ago. PI indicates the count has possibly poss-ibly bottomed out for 1976, however, last year's low rig count of 215 came in June and in 1974 the low, a count of 217, was posted late in April. In Utah, Carlton Stowe, minerals specialist, Utah Geological Survey, says that 18 rigs are active at the present time compared to 17 a month ago. Drilling is widely scattered throughout Utah at this time, notes Mr. Stowe. Oil and gas shows were tested at a wildcat well in Grand County by Mountain Fuel Supply about 15 miles northwest of Moab. Mountain Fuel recovered gas cut mud, gas and oil cut mud and water on a test, 4,425 to 4,444 feet, currently is evaluating evalua-ting logging information at a total depth of 6,446 feet. The well is some 11 miles northwest of Long Canyon and the Big Flat field. Uinta Bisin work is still centered in the Bluebell-Altamont Bluebell-Altamont field vicinity. Sev- eral wells are being production tested for final completion. Shell Oil gauged 579 barrels of oil and 842,000 cubic feet of gas per day on tests at its No. 1-20B4 Ellsworth well in" Alta-mont. Alta-mont. Chevron Oil's two deep-drilling wells at Bluebell field are below 14,000 feet. A remote exploratory well southwest south-west of the town of Duchesne is reported drilling below 18,000 feet. The W.A. Mon-crief Mon-crief No. 14-1 Marsing deep-test deep-test is being drilled by Rocky Mountain Drilling Company. Moncrief has not indicated how deep the well is to be drilled. Shenandoah Oil Company Com-pany is drilling below 11,030 feet at the No. 1-7 Federal wildcat well west of Vernal. The operator has scheduled the test well to about 12,000 feet. No tests have been reported to date. In northern Summit County, CIG Exploration Explora-tion reports it is conditioning and reaming hole at a depth of 17,685 feet at its No. 1 Cook-C well. Montgomery Drilling Company is rig contractor. Other drilling in Summit County is centered i vicinity of the Pineview fieM Five wells throughout this are, are presently in progress In southern Utah's GarfieM Countv, Shell Oil is drillino ,, 5,140 feet at the No , Federal-Harvey, a projected 8,000 foot test southeast of Antimony. In the Upper Valley area southwest of Escalante Tenneco Oil pumped 3oj barrels of oil per day at the No. 1 Little Valley-Federal vvei and is continuing production i tests. Its total depth is 7 575 . feet. , |