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Show Several Wells Testing In Southeastern Utah Oil and gas drilling activity in Utah' southeastern south-eastern counties is centered cen-tered in the Cisco Springs area where several sev-eral wells are being tested test-ed notes Carlton Stowe, Utah (Geological and Mineral Min-eral Survey Staff Specialist. Spe-cialist. A review of drilling drill-ing reports in the area show at least 17 wells in the Cisco - Cisco Springs vicinity ofGrand and the White Mesa -Aneth area of San Juan County in some various stages of completion work. Kight wells in Grand County are near completion and nine in the San Juan County fields. Drilling rig availability availabil-ity at the present time seems to be hampering efforts. Nine locations in Grand County, scheduled for drilling, are on reports re-ports waiting on a contractor. con-tractor. Six locations are listed in San Juan County that are to be drilled as soon as a rig becomes available. There are 42 rigs running run-ning in the State with 32 rigs active in the north - eastern Utah area. The others are widely scattered. scat-tered. At the beginning of May, Utah had 50 wells drilled. . .25 oil wells,-8 wells,-8 gas and 17 dry holes, about even with the rate of the same period last year. In terms of footage drilled during the four month period of 1973, Utah's stood at just over 384,000 feet. |
