Show wells in rangely langely field CASPER wyo wye like many other major and independent producers under compulsion of intense competition Sta oil 01 and gas co Is expanding its exploration activities for new oil oll and gas reserves el as Sta Is classed now as the fifth largest U S prod producer of crude oil natural gas and natural gas liquids and is a leader in development of the rocky mountain oil industry it now Is turning increasing attention to the complex geologic structures underlying colorados plateaus and mountains although it has an interest in some 12 fields in colorado stan holinds important production in the state comes from the lies dome in the rangely langely and ignacio fields ta operates 20 wells in the lies iles dome which last lost year produced about barrel of oil since its disco discovery vei y in 1924 the field has produced a cumulative c total of some 15 million barrels of oil in rangely langely Ran gely most prolific field in a the and sixth largest in the V U S operated wells account for about 22 percent of the total field production the company operates ill of the field wells and produces about barrels of oil and 8 million cubic feet of gas per day As area headquarters for Sta producing operations in northwestern colorado a and n d northeastern utah rangely langely ts s the site of an attractive co company m pay camp where here some 40 Sta fa families make their homes during 1954 Stano Sta Und drilled or participated in a total of 32 wells in colorado following the current trend in the state the majority of these wells tested prospects in the denver julesburg julesberg basin of northeastern colorado A wildcat in a the valley area alq ea of morgan county found a premising promising gas reservoir in athe the upper muddy sand at feet five ve of seven wells drilled to date by the company in the big beaver field of washington county were completed as 0 oil il wells although dry hole completions c 0 of two wells plus a third dir dry y hole by another operator have dimmed earlier estimates of the reservoir prospects in the ignacio field in la plata completed development drilling in the shallow gas reservoir there and drilled two wells ells to the dakota morrison reservoir to feet the company also participated in two wildcats in la plata and archuleta counties which discovered new gas production |