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Show Overthrust Belt is busy oil and gas drilling area Drilling for oil and gas in the Over-thrust Over-thrust Belt province of southwest Wyoming and northeast Utah will continue strong into 1980, making this region one of the busiest in the U.S. for oil and gas exploration and development develop-ment notes Carlton Stowe, Utah Department of Natural Resources. Three northeastern Utah counties share in the bulk of the Overthrust Belt activity: Morgan, Rich and Summit. Fourteen wells are active at present-drilling present-drilling to depths necessary to test potential oil and gas bearing formations. for-mations. In addition, eight wells are in some stage of nearing completion work to establish production, and ten well-sites well-sites are scheduled for drilling as soon as a rotary rig becomes available. Southwestern Wyoming's Evanston region has accounted for some of the Rocky Mountain area's most significant oil and gas discovery wells this year and presently has several exploratory test wells drilling in its vicinity. Uintah County Wyoming alone has 17 test wells drilling to objectives along with 32 others in various completion stages. New work to be carried over into next year includes 47 location's to be drilled which are for the most part, scheduled to depths of 11.000 feet and more. Mr. Stowe notes that oil and gas exploration in this province is highly complex and with the completion of each well, successful or dry, new knowledge of the geological conditions and complex structural puzzles, contributes con-tributes new information to base future work upon. A significant deep well is announced for drilling just four miles southwest of Evanston. Mr. Stowe says that Amoco Production has reported that they will drill a 17,600 foot test of the Madison formation at the No. 1 Urroz, about three-quarters of a mile north of shallower oil and gas production in the Yellow Creek field area near Evanston. Amoco discovered oil and gas at the Yellow Creek area in 1976 and more than a half-a-million barrels of oil have been produced from the field since that time. Aiikh'o's test is a little more than seven miles northeast of the company's No. 1 Fawcett & Son, north and east of Coalville, Summit County. Amoco is conducting completion tests at this apparent success. Its total depth is 18.055 feet. Amoco is drilling below 13.500 feet at the No. 1 Bountiful Livestock well in Summit County, about midway between bet-ween Coalville and Evanston. The discovery well flowed 1.240 feet of oil in two hours from a depth of 12.824 feet. It is about 10 miles north of the Pineview oil field. Interest remains hign in noncompetitive non-competitive oil and gas leasing on the federal lands in Utah and November set a new record in applications received receiv-ed by the Bureau of Land Management. During that month 70.842 entry cards were received at the BLM Utah State Office, according to Robert Lopez, branch of records and data management chief. This was more than double the usual monthly average of 30. 000 applications, said Lcpez. Lands in terminated leases are made available for new lease offers on the third Monday of each month by BLM state offices in the mineral leasing states. Lands are also made available at the BLM Eastern states office. All applications received by the filing deadline are considered to have been submitted simultaneously. When there is more than one applicant for a given tract, priorities to obtain the lease are established by a drawing. Hence the leasing system also is known as 'simultaneous oil and gas leasing. Lopez reminded people that (hey can submit the applications themselves and do not need to go through a filing ser" vice. The simultaneous leasing m recent years has become big busing not onlv for BLM (which processed 3 .a million applications at $10 each in fiai 1978) but also for private filing ser" vices. |
