| Show rangely langely ranks among A ong top ten T en in in U S oil 0 11 production product ion illustrations courtesy standard oil and gas company irv W TV ell A 7 IM j ap 4 a ila il A j vol ti maintenance man bill hickey talks over work with field superintendent frank gruver at langely rangely Ran gely 40 while river bisects field remote from markets mr kt rangely langely oil was long unwanted wartime demands d brought swift development Sta olind camp and ara area office is neat attractive the rangely langely area quarterbacks producing operations from nebraska lo 10 utah kj AA aw 4 4 I 1 e production foreman L A king field engineer 0 H gruver field clerk J B jone jones gather for dally daily conference t f 1 I y abir Ai ir fv LIT aalt 0 t A ian J ta ft I 1 A tallying pipe ate ar bob nuck ruckman man intermediate clrk clerk fronti front jim pollard roustabout confer tommy thompson roustabout rear I 1 geologists eyed tit the rim rock ar around und the big lonely basin at Ran langely RanK gely cly colorado and their lips her vas iba n story book structure many ninny would have bet a years pay that an import be a i ears pay that an imp important 0 rt oil fie field d lay below the they y were right but it took over 30 3 ears cars to find out how right they v acre cle A shallow wildcat in 1902 proved T 0 c that oil 0 11 was there at finst in crevices ot of the mancos 1 saule acl other shale wells foli lowed aed in 1933 more proof came carne A foot well drilled i lv bv the lie california co tapped I 1 I 1 tit lie e weber Ond stone and flowed 1100 10 I 1 barrels a day yes the geo 10 fists had tied called it gut but it angely oil still went unwanted lt its lost ost was too great the j sparest cst railroad was miles ny nay nt tit craig colorado the earest ne m st markets were denver mountainous miles east and salt silt lake city miles west not until world war 11 II did the sky rocketing demand tor for I 1 oil bring haegely rangely oil within cc I 1 reach even then rang hang ely did not give up easily vasily two drilling problems stood in the way no I 1 athe the usual water base choked up the tight weber sand send oil base finally solved that one no 2 it took as long as 50 days to drill the hard foot pay section bits were chewed up as fast as a drillers drillars dr illers plug of tobacco stan olind engineers cured that headache they drilled the pay formation with a diamond core bit this unusual method soon cut this 50 day period to 8 or 10 days only then did badgely rangely boom rangely now is one of the nations top producing fields its wells to the weber flow and pump barrels a day Stano lInds wells account for or barrels of 0 this two pipelines have solved the problem of distance Ran gelys story is one that makes oilmen proud of their work the odds w were e re staked heavily against the them m th there e re as they hove have been other places from canada to the guk gulf but oilmen have a way of beating beati nj hose odds As long as they do the US has little need to worry about its oil supplies bupp lles for the future before oil came it was almost a deserted land today rangely langely is the home of more than people bright lawns and white cottages of oil company camps liven the once barren expanse rangely langely is ared area headquarters for our producing operations stretching from nebraska to utah for the theres plenty of s sport ort in the mountains bordering bordering rangely langely on the south or in the uintah range to the north IT A 71 T 1 I Sta owns 31 21 par per cent of langely natural gu gas plant at capacity it can process 40 million cu ft of natural gas a day v qa wk AMP 9 0 7 r VY 44 0 1 kt sixty three Stano Und employees work at nanga Ran gelT the camp ud and ara aroa office are in heart of field 1 le I 1 A A L 7 4 from rugged northwest corner of 0 field it Is i 20 miles lo 10 other end of basin Sta hi has welli wells at rangely langely Ran gely wr J 12 W engineer engineers tackle producing problem problems in pread out field from front to rear fiord floyd chambers Chamb fiord floyd kribill and jerry allan allen J M t in isolated location like rangely langely Ran gely a wll well locka stocked warehouse li Is a must jack C bunn clerk check chocks inventory of fillings fittings vivion hall makei makes round of 0 hagood tank lank bet battery one of top U S feldi fields rangely produces barrels a day 0 for safety meetings get together the recreation hall is often the center confer of activity here ili its a kids costume party AM aft 16 fir fire drill call calls for fut last action clock clockwise clr from befit george stobo henry thompson Thom hershel palton patton bill i hutton and lee L hall |
