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Show Utah Drilling Activity Remains Strona Oil and gas drilling -activity throughout Utah continues at a steady pace with increased attention at-tention being focused on the State as a major oil and gas province notes Carlton Stowe, staff specialist, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey. Several of the major oil companies of the nation are currently at work in Utah where successes have sparked a new interest. Activities Activi-ties in the Uinta Basin have been noted across the country, thereby attracting at-tracting attention of the exploration companies. Altamont - Bluebell field areas of Duchesne County has the highest percentage of work being be-ing done at present. Three new wells were completed in the Bluebell Blue-bell field this week. . . Chevron Oil Company completed a Ute-Tribal well pumping 735 barrels bar-rels of oil daily; Gulf Oil completed two new wells flowing 898 and 1,750 barrels per day. All three wells produce at a depth below 10,800 feet. Several others are nearing completion in the fields. Gulf, Chevron. Chev-ron. Shell Oil, McCul-loch McCul-loch Oil, Sun Oil and Gas Producing Enterprises Enter-prises are drilling wells in the area. Apache Exploration's No. 1 Graywolf-Smith, a scheduled Wasatch formation test just southwest of Tabiona is drilling below 14,290 ft. The operator began operations op-erations at the deep test last November. Drilling rigs are working in the Cisco-Cisco Cisco-Cisco Springs area where several operators are active. . .Tejas Gas Corporation, Vukaso-vich Vukaso-vich Drilling, Adak Energy En-ergy and Goal Resources. Resourc-es. In San Juan County, Continental Oil is working work-ing at two wells in the White Mesa area near Aneth. Willard Pease and Schurr - Dickinson Oil also have wells scheduled. sche-duled. A deep wildcat well is being drilled by Phillips Petroleum, east of Sali-na. Sali-na. It is to go to at least 12,000 feet for tests. Phillips reports drilling depth at this time is below 1,900 feet. The well was started late last month. Mountain Fuel Supply has not yet started drilling at it's No. 1 Shutz Creek well about four miles south and a little west of Cedar Ce-dar City. Mountain Fuel says the well will be drilled to at least 6,000 feet for tests. About 25 miles southeast of Hanks ville, Mountain Fuel is drilling below 2,500 feet at its Dirty Devil prospect, No. 4. It is scheduled to about 5,400 feet. |