Show red wash pilot oil recovery tests approved by conservation board utah oil and gas gaa conservation commission monday approved a pilot test for use of water in secondary recovery of oil at red wash pool minth count county if successful standard oil company of california western operations inc will expand the water recovery pro gram in the west end of the field to include the entire pool donald A mcfann vernal reservoir engineer tor for standard ards s utah area testified at a hearing before the agency that oil in the west end of the field from 28 wells amounts to about 20 per benj cen of all reserves at red wash mr mcfann added about 15 per cent of the oil at the field discovered in 1991 1931 west end itself was found in 1938 1933 can be recovered covered by conventional means if water flooding Is successful another 11 million bar aels of crude may be recovered at the west end of the field he told the commission lie ile added that there is no evidence of water encroachment at the end of the oil deposition indicating the red wash is a sand lense lene type trap without water drive an abandoned oil well will be used in the pilot jmj injection of water |