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Show Oil and Gas Drilling Ahead of Last Year Oil & Gas operators in I'tah completed 138 wells as of November 1, 1973 compared to 124 the same time last year. Forty-seven wells drilled drill-ed have been unsuccessful. unsuccess-ful. 79 are producing oil wells and 12 gas wells are completed, reports Carlton Stowe, Utah Geological Geo-logical & Mineral Survey Sur-vey specialist. At the current rate of activity, Ltah operators are expected ex-pected to exceed 1972-s total well count of 159 drilled. If so. the 1973 drilling activity will be the best recorded since 1964 when 188 wells were drilled. The 12 gas wells completed thus far in Utah already is best counted since 1969 when operators completed 16 gas wells in the state. But. prior to that, the best year recorded in Utah for gas wells was in 1965 when 24 wells were successful. Thirty-one Thirty-one drilling rigs are presently pre-sently operating in the state... usually averages between 31 and 36 active ac-tive rigs. At the November Nov-ember lsh date, 194.050 feet of hole has been drilled. Most interesting of the new well locations scheduled sche-duled this week is a "wildcat" well located 20 miles west of Moab in Grand County. Jack Grynberg and Associates. Associ-ates. Denver, has sche- duled a 7.200 foot test to be drilled at No. 1-4 Minerals Point-Federal, it is in section four, township 26s, range 18e, about eight miles northwest north-west of the Big Flat field just to the north of Dead Horse Point. The operators opera-tors are optimistic of the outcome of this exploratory explor-atory w ell since it is only two miles southwest of a 1958 well where oil and gas shows were recovered. re-covered. In other activity in the State. Chevron Oil reached a depth of 17.620 feet and is still drilling at the Red Wash area deep test, No. 44-21-C Unit. It is scheduled to be a total depth of 18.050 feet for tests of the Weber We-ber formation. The highly high-ly significant "deep" well is being closely watched wat-ched by oil industry operators op-erators for a possible "hook-up" of Weber formation for-mation production trom Colorado's Rangely field to the Uinta Basin's Ashley Ash-ley Valley field. |