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Show Fourteen Drill-Site Locations Reported in Grand County A slight increase in the number of active drill rigs in Utah is noted in the past month. Active rotarics at work in the Slate now number 21, an increase of two since September, Septem-ber, notes Carlton Stowe, Utah Geological Survey specialist. Total well completions to the end of October, this year, are now eleven with the same period during 1974. A total of Kit) wells have been drilled in the state this year, the exact number a year ago at this lime. Southeastern Utah Fourteen drill site locations are carried in drilling reports for Grand County. Activity is scheduled in the Cisco Springs and the Cisco and Gravel Pile fields of the county. In San Juan County, Mountain Fuel Supply is scheduled to drill the No. 3 Patterson-Canyon test, a projected 5,570 foot well southeast of Monticello. Ladd Petroleum also will drill in the vicinity just northwest of Aneth field, a scheduled 6,000 foot test well. J. M. Huber Corporation is currently at work in the White Mesa vicinity, drilling at 4,700 feet at a scheduled 5.600 foot well. Uinta Basin Shenandoah Oil Corporation Corpora-tion of Denver scheduled a 12.000 foot test of the Weber sandstone in Uintah County this week. The new well is 18 miles northwest of the Uinta Basin's only production from that formation, in Ashley Valley field and is 12 miles northeast of the Bluebell field. Vernal is eight miles to the east. West of the Altamont field and the townsite of Mountain Home, Shell Oil Company is drilling below 10,000 feet at a projected 13,000 foot test, the No. f -1 2 A 6 Ute. Shale without shows was recovered on a core taken at 9,240 feet. In the southwestern area of the Uinlah and Ouray reservation about 15 miles southwest of Duchesne, W. A. Moncrief is drilling at 12,200 feet at last report at his No. 14-1 Mars-iug Mars-iug exploratory test. He has not indicated how deep the wildcat will be drilled. Other drilling in Utah to round out the totals, involves tests in Summit County. |