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Show Utah drilling keeps pace with region activity The Rooky Mountain Region's active working rotary drill rig count passed 430 for the first time and hit an all-time Igh of 403 October 15, notes Carlton Sowe. spokesman for the Utah Depart-ient Depart-ient of Natural Resources. Siowe says that the Hughes Tool census cen-sus recorded in Petroleum Information's Informa-tion's drilling reports show that this is H above the "old" record of 389 set last cocti and gives the Rockies its fifth kw all-time high of the year. The rate of announcement of new well locations has also been at an all-time tgh resulting in a heavy backlog of tort and rig employment. The only set-acks set-acks foreseeable for the rest of the rear would be due to inclement weather. Activity in Utah is at its highest peak. The Hughes census show 34 active rKaries.an increase over the 31 drilling risat this time a month ago. To date is year, companies have completed 156 wells in Utah compared to 175 at the sane time period of last year. Attention has shifted to the Uintah Basin region south of Vernal where a k discovery well has been completed . ad work covering a large vicinity is underway. Coseka Resources Company completed the discovery at the No. 4 Trap Springs Unit flowing 1,125,000 cubic feet of gas and 9 barrels of oil per day. It produces from the Dakota formation for-mation between 8,624 and 8,750 feet. It is in an area about 55 miles southeast of Vernal, some 4 miles northeast of the company's 14-16 Main Canyon, a recent discovery well completed flowing 2.558,000 cubic feet of gas per day. About 6 miles to the west, Coseka completed the No. 1 Sweetwater Canyon Ca-nyon well flowing 70,000 cubic feet of gas daily from 5,927 feet. It confirms another discovery which was drilled about a mile to the southeast. The company com-pany has scheduled or has underway at least a dozen other wells in this general vicinity of southeastern Uintah County. Elsewhere in the state, Mr. Stowe says that Southland Royalty Company, Farmington, will drill four wells in southeastern Utah. The company will drill the No. 1 Marinus Canyon a 6.000 foot test well in Garfield County. It is just west of the Dirty Devil River area some 25 miles southeast of Hanksville. In San Juan County, Southland Royal- |
