Show f ft t t If of v v L v v 10 I fit q f f. f r v w. w r I tt FATAL ROLLOVER one half mile north of Roosevelt on the Neola Highway The driver Delyle J J. J Wedig w was s pinned Inside after offer the pickup truck skidded sideways and rolled roiled over at least one time ending upside down This Is the second fatal traffic accident In the area this year Drilling activities in Utah ahead of last year Oil and gas companies drilled 10 wells thus far this year resulting in five oil two gas and three dry holes compared with only six this same time last year notes Carlton Stowe minerals specialist Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Natural Resources Exploration throughout Utah is currently high with more than 70 wildcat wells either drilling or sites chosen for drilling currently carri carried d in drilling reports In addition about in-field in development wells are listed Utah's active drilling rigs number between 26 and 29 at present up from last years year's average of 19 rigs at work Increased well drilling is evident in each of the western states as well Drilling statistics show that operators in the Rocky Mountain States have completed wells compared with wells at this time last year WELL DRILLING activities in Utah are concentrated generally in two o geological provinces the Uintah Basin of northern and northeastern Utah and the Paradox of southeastern Utah A dozen new well locations were recently approved by Utah's Division of Oil Gas Mining Minin primarily in northern Utah's Rich Daggett Uintah and Summitt counties However not all rig drill-rig activity is concentrated in those counties A very significant test well will be drilled just east st of the Scofield reservoir in Carbon County by Diamond Shamrock Corporation Their No 22 10 Federal is to be drilled to at least feet The only previous drilling done in this area is a foot failure which was drilled in 1952 some two miles to the south of the new well site Gas flowed on tests at that well but no commercial production was established PINEVIEW field near Coalville is the focus of current development activity Eight wells are producing in the area three additional producers are nearing completion and two others are being drilled in the immediate vicinity The field a significant contribution to Utah's oil and gas production was discovered in 1975 and has hak produced more than barrels of oil and billion cubic feet of gas Several exploratory wells north of Pin Pineview view south of the Bear Lake area and throughout the Coalville le vicinity are being closely watched for possible new oil or gas possibilities A general view over of Utah drilling shows several developments underway Carbon County Two wells are testing to establish production in the Peters Peter's Point and the Farnham Dome field Reserve Oil Gas and Equity Oil Company are at work in these areas Daggett County Mountain Fuel Supply is drilling one well welland welland welland and has another scheduled in inthe inthe inthe the Clay Basin field DUCHESNE County Shell Oil Gulf Oil Diamond Shamrock Oil Development of Utah Koch Exploration and Hawks Burton-Hawks Inc are a few of the companies working in the Bluebell Altamont Cedar Rim and Left Fork Antelope Canyon vicinity Hawks Burton-Hawks has scheduled a new test at the No 19 1 Federal a projected foot well about 15 miles south of Duchesne Emery County Four wildcats are scheduled ranging from projected depths of to feet in the county Fossil Petroleum is condu conducting tirig tests at a total depth of feet at their No 2 Ferron Creek prospect Garfield County Two wells ells are scheduled to depths of 2500 to feet Grand County Drilling reports carry 38 wells in the county more at present than at any any any- anytIme time 1 in the past post past year i Drilling and testing are being undertaken on a number of wells widely scattered over the Westwater X Bar-X State Line Pear Park Harley Dome Left LeftHand LeftHand LeftHand Hand Canyon Cisco Springs Seiber Nose Agate and Salt Wash areas Juab County An foot deep test is being drilled by Dixel Resources at the No 1 Gunnison south of Nephi SANPETE County in the Moroni area Hanson Oil is drilling below feet at their deep foot test the No X Moroni San Jan County Both exploratory exploratory exploratory ex ex- and in-field in development drilling is active in the county Most work is being done by Texaco Inc in inthe inthe inthe the Aneth field along with a heavy development program by Superior Oil and Continental Oil Husky Oil plans to conduct tests at their apparent discovery well the No 25 15 Federal four miles mile northwest of the Lisbon field Some 75 million cubic feet of gas per day was gauged on a test run at feet |