Show oil chairman attends hearing on well veil spacing C 11 henderson enderson II of vernal chairman of the state oil and gas commission is in salt lake city attending the coa controversial trover sial spacing hearing on the lisbon oil and gas field the lisbon field Is located in san juan county south couth and east of moab and is one of the major recen recent toU oil and gas discoveries in the rocky mt area it is expected that the oil and gas industry will be anxiously watching the hearing and waiting the commissions decision the lisbon field is a complex field with three known producing zones the uppermost producing zone is known as the mississippian and is the most complex producing oil from some wells and gas from hoemme tion is known as the ouray and produces oil the lowest known producing formation is the mccracken and produces oil and gas the spacing of the pool which produces gas from some wells and oil ol 01 from some will be the most controversial feature of the hearing pure oil company is asking the commission to set sel the spacing at acres for each well pabco petroleum corporation and standard oil are both asking for acres to the well el llott ilott production comp company a ny wants the spacing to be on ISO acre basis the mccracken production Is the lowest known producing pool in the field here again the OR oil companies differ in their request for spacing of the wells pure oil Is ask ing for 80 acre drilling units while elliott and pabco are requesting acre spacing this becomes more complicated because the state of utah allows the multiple completion through the same well bore the oil and gas com commission afi Is charged with the re of snaking making a decision which w will III be fair to the state of utah the ropal ty holders and acceptable to the various producing oil and gas companies the companies involved in the hearing are expected to produce a great deal of data and evidence to substantiate their varied claims and the length of the hearing Is ils at this i urne time undetermined I 1 |