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Show ' ' Rangely Oil "ield ield Field FieldAttracts . FieldAttracts " Attracts Nation Nation's Nations Nation'sAttention NationAttention ' Attention AttentionBy By MM Mn Mrs John S . PurdyNationwide Purdy I Nationwide interest is nowl now nowl'centered nowcentered nowcentered 'centered centered on the Rangely oil fIeld fIeld'southeast fieldsoutheast fieldsoutheast 'southeast southeast southeast of Vernal which took tookits tookits tookits its place in the actual prom prtmin prtminence prominence fIeldI In Inence I ence among our western oil oilfields oilfields oilfields fields about a year and a half halfago halfago halfago halfagoOil ago agoOil Oil was discovered in Rang Rangely Rangely Rangely ely in the year 1902 1002 by J W WRector WRector WRector Rector a rancher who notIced notIcedoil noticedoil noticedoil oil floating on the surface of the theriver theriver river running through his ranlh ranch ranlhDenver ranchDenver ranchDenver theI I Denver and Meeker parties In Ineluding ineluding ineluding eluding C T Carney R H It . Oldland OldlandT T B Scott John Hays and andothers andothers andothers others key men of their day daybecame daybecame daybecame became interestedDrilling interested interestedDrilling interestedDrilling Drilling for shallow oil has haskept haskept haskept kept the Rangely field before bdore the thepublic thepublic thepublic public now for more than 40 40years 40years 40years years About 30 years ago the theMidwest theMidwest theMidwest Midwest Texas and Associated Oil all Companies drilled deep test testIwells testwells testwells Iwells wells with cable tools but their their'efforts theirefforts theirefforts ' efforts were futile as they never neverreached neverreached 'efforts efforts ' reached even the Dakota sand sandThe sandThe sandThe The California Company a sub sub- subsidiary subsidiary subsidiary - - sidiaryIf sidiary If > f the Standard Oil of ofIcalifornld ofCalifornia ofCalifornia Icalifornld California drilled a de deep .p p < . test testwell testwell testwell well with a rotary in August August1933 1033 1933 and found fuund production productionaround productionaround productionaround around iOOO 6000 ( fH feet . t The ThL well was wasplugged wasplugged ] plugged and dnd though thoubh thouth , people were werepn werepretty werepretty pn pretty tty et ( ttrtain rtam oil OJI had hdd been foundl foundlHI found foundin foundiii HI iii the full ( fit I ( Id no 110 information mforrnatlOn was wasglvul wasgiven wasgiven glvul given o 0 lThen tThen t l tThen Then L e line lUlL unc World War II and andmore andmore andmore more ll II it w IS a demanded dLmandt.d dLmandtd . In InMaTlh InMarch InMarch MaTlh March I 1944 U44 th tht the < California Co moved movt.d movtd . u i it J > ) the tht . nt ( ! K I ( Id ' The me 'i'he ihe ' deep peep deeptt.t peeptest tt.t ttt test ' . w Wt < 11 II n Il Kavt HdV Ravi < n Il No 1 was wah > put puton puton puton on prod II iction icllon tion of around 200 bar barn barrt barr n rt < Is b pei pel lay IdY Lmerald k.mernld kmernld herald . No I Mc McLaubhllll McLaughlin MeLaufehlin Laubhllll Laughlin ( Government overnmenl , No 1 1ami 1and 1and ami and Fe Fet Fel < No 1ire 1 ire UL in production productiondnd productionand productiondnd dnd and pal pa/t pa t part / t of the thL company lompuny b s ; > fifth fifthrig fifthrig fifthrig rig has drrlVHIThe arrivedthe arrived drrlVHI arrivedFhe Fhe The Wa Wa&atch Waatch Wasatch & . ! > atdl Oil 011 & Refining RefiningCo RefiningCo RefiningCo Co of ; Salt Calt I Ikt k ( hds has on one < . well wdl in inproductIOn inproduction inproduction productIOn anutlier anuthl another r drilling and andtwo andtwo andtwo two rig rigs . to be bL ! ' set 'et et up The New Newton Newton Newton ton Oil Company of Denver DU1ver have havea a cable ldble tool rig and dnd two rotary rotaryrlgs rotaryrigs rotaryrigs rlgs rigs 1 1ht the hI Standard Stdlldard Oil and Gas GasCo GasCo GasCo Co have havt . taken tdken over the tht . Husky HuskyOil HuskyOil HuskyOil Oil Co s " two wt.ll wtll wells . ! ' one ont . of which whichreached whichreached whichreached reached " ' saturation 'dturatlOn dturatlOn The Tht . . Husky Huskyis is a Cody Wyo concern conlern The TheSuperior TheSuperior TheSuperior Superior Oil ( company ompany has drIll drIlled drilled drilled ed two w wells ( 11 1111 < ; /11 11 m / > n Douglas Douglah Creek Creekand Creekand Creekand and I is . I t ( xpected xpLdul xpecttd to return rt.turn rtturn . to the theHangely theRungely theRangely Hangely Rungely art drt a d dTh aThe aThe Th The < . H It Kivin IVI ivt nOli n Oil & Refining Refiningcompany Refiningcompany .ompany ompany company < . now hu has . producing producingwllls producingwells producingwells wllls wells andoplr andopt and oplr opt rat raft t ( < s , > a d refinery nflnt.ry nflntry . In Intht inthe inthe tht the . flddThe fieldThe field fldd fieldThe The Utah Utdh Oil Rtfininfe Rtfining H ( flmnb , com corn compuny cornpang cornpany puny pang WI w is s " nc rect < ntly ally granted brantut a uti util utilities utilities I IItlt.S Itlt.S ItltS ities . permit pLrnllt to build a u pipe hne line linefrom linefrom from tin Hu tit Hanlly Hangily Raiifct Hanl- Hanl - . < ly field fldd to con connLcl conneet connect ) nLcl neet with thi th ( 1It lies Iles . . ! > and Wllson WIl'Ion WIlIon Wilson ' - - - Creek fields at Wamsutter Wyo WyoIn ' this way it will give all the thecompanies thecompanies companies an outlet for maket maketing maketlog maketing thel ing log either east or westIt westIt west westIt It is assumed that work on onthe onthe onthe the laying of the pipe line hne willi will willibegin willbegin willbegin begin as soon as weather per perI permits permils permits I mits mils guagedby The line will be guaged by the amount of equipment equipmentand equipmentand equipmentand and labor obtainableThe obtainableThe obtainable obtainableThe figurefor The daily production figure for the Rangely Rongely field for the theweek theweek theweek week ending Feb 17 was 1 ] 630 630barrels 630barrels 630barrels barrels Drilling has brought broughtabout broughtabout broughtabout about much leasing and buying buyingof of royaltiesThe rOYilltiesThe royalties rOYillties The Gene Simpson Construc Construe Constructlon Construetion Construelion tlon tion company is laying waterand waterand water waterand and gas pipe lines hnes in the field at atthe atthe atthe the present time | |