Show U Utah tah drill rigs rig stay busy I Oil and Gas drilling in Utah I continues to tobe be busy with a total count of oC 27 2 rotary's currently at work This time last year 24 rigs drill were active CAULTON STOWE STOWS state geological and mineral mineraI specialist with the Department of Natural Resources says that companies have completed wells in Utah this year com come compared pared this time a year ago lie notes also that a large portion 57 wells of oC the were wildcat test holes which were drilled in areas where no near production exists Only 28 exploratory exploratory ex wells were drilled over the same period in 1976 Mr Stowe says that Utah activity as well as that underway underway underway un un- derway in southwestern Wyoming's Evanston region is the current focus of oC attention in inthe inthe inthe the western states One of the most significant wells drilled in Utah in a decade is being tested in Rich County The American Quasar Petroleum Company's No 20 1 Hogback Ridge ape apparent apparent ap ap- parent gas discovery southeast of Bear Lake is reported by Petroleum Information Corporation Corporation Cor Cor- to have flowed some nine million cubic feet of gasper gas gasper gasper per day on tests from the Permian formation Testing is underway at the remote well where earlier gas flowed at a rate of more than 15 million cubic feet a day A A. second well is being drilled the No 28 1 Hogback Ridge which is currently below elow feet feel The wells are some 12 miles north of Randolph 70 miles north of the Pineview w oil field in Summit County and about 40 miles northwest of the Ryck- Ryck man Creek field near Evanston American Quasar very active in Utah just recently completed a 1530 barrel of oil per day discovery well three miles southwest of Pineview field Additional drilling i in the vicinity is planned and should be started shortly Meanwhile just northwest of the Wyoming Utah-Wyoming state line north of Highway 80 near Wahsatch Amoco Production is drilling a projected foot well at the No 1 Thomas Canyon The wildcat just started will have surface casing set below feet feel Amoco also announces a new well location to be drilled seven miles north of the town of Oakley and has reported that it has a test well It bout 11 miles east of Pineview field Plans for a deep ap ape approximately approximately proximately foot remote wildcat well in Millard County are disclosed by Argonaut Energy Amarillo Texas and American Company of oC Spokane Washington The well wellis is to be drilled about 11 miles milk northeast north-northeast of oC the town of oC Hinckley The companies say that thai it is possible that a second deep well will also be drilled In Inthe Inthe inthe the vicinity Plans call for Cor work to start by November 1 1 Mil l STOW reports that General Crude Oil Snyder Texas will drill an exploratory T a ry I Icell 1 well ell on the east side of the town of ot Jensen Uintah County The TheNo No 6 21 Jensen will go to about 2650 feet Closest oil production is three and a half hair miles to the west in the Ashley Valley field In the extreme southern portion of Uintah County Taiga Energy Company announces plans to drill a foot Coot well at the No 1 t Rat Hat Hole Canyon 12 miles north or of nearest t production |