| Show ashley valley produces million barrels oil in 54 exploration and discovery of oil brought an era of prosperity to the basin during the past fifteen years millions have been pent in the search for oil and the producing fields nrc now su sup plying nearly two million W rags annually the hunt for the big producing field Is still going on and eminent geology I 1 its predict that come some day the uintah basin will be one of the nations major fields nearest to vernal Is the ashley valley field eight miles nilles to the aas east I 1 along highway 40 from this field alone more than a million barrels of oil was as produced last year holding a record as largest oil Is trucked in tankers a distance of 50 miles to langely Ilan ecly where it Is dumped in into to the salt lake pipe line for transportation tc the refinery another field 35 miles mile southeast t f vernal Is the red wash wah with annual production over half a million barrels and rated second largest oil from this field Is transported seven miles in heated lines to t fmc le salt lake line where it is also to tarried to the refinery the ashley valley field was first oil discovery and began producing in 1938 red wash Is a much younger field with the fir first s t discovery well being brought in during january of 1951 other fields located in the uintah basin and within a short distance of vernal include the brennan bottoms duchesne county duchesne ute tribal flat mesa roose reese vela and walker hollow while the ashley valley crude has bag a low pour point and is easily transported the red wash crude has a high pour point and sets up much like axle grease it Is maintained at temperature of degrees from the time it comes from the earth until it I 1 is 3 mixed with rangely langely crude a and d tent sent through the main line in order to handle the heavy he avy crude trude standard oil of california hag has installed electrically heated lines in the field which gather the oil to fl a central storage the oil Is then transported in larger lines to the main line after it has been mixed with hangi rangely ly crude a low pour point oil it Is estimated that up to barrels a day may way be shipped from the field without t i gumming up the m main ain line at present resent about halt half this amount is being ing transported to supply electric power for the lines it was necessary to install elaborate cla borata generating units in the field dozens of modern homes 0 office buildings machine and equipment shops have been constructed ted it Is estimated that well over a million dollars have already been spent on installations at red wash with the coming of c the gas line from san juan to the northwest which will go through the outskirts outskirt of vernal it is expected that drilling activities will be renewed and dozens of wells will be drilled along the line for oil and gas the uintah B basin a s I 1 n of northeastern utah now recognized as harboring one of the out outstanding g outstanding undeveloped oil reserves of the country became productive 4 of 0 oil 11 in commercial quantities more recently than any other intermountain basin of the said the oil and gas journal in 1953 |
