Show More drilling scheduled in Utah areas areal Deep drilling by oil companies is scheduled in still another remote and virtually unevaluated area of the western states this week with the announcement of a three mile deep exploratory well In the Coalville area of Utah's Summit County CARLTON STOWE Utah Geological and Mineral Survey staff specialist reports the well wellis is to be drilled in section four township 20 range about 12 miles east of the town and is to tobe tobe tobe be drilled to a depth of feet At this depth geologists project the formation to be the Weber formation of Pennsylvanian age Mr Stowe says the location is within the southern edge of do the Wyoming Folded Belt in the southwestern reaches of the Green River Basin about 44 miles west of do Utah's Bridger Lake field a Dakota formation oil oll pool found at depths of feet Operators of the new well are American Quasar Petroleum a Fort Worth Company who has opened exploration offices Inthe in inthe inthe the United Bank Center in fri Denver Inc Englewood Colorado and North Central Oil Houston ELS ELSEWHERE WHERE this week the rig employment picture in Utah continues to improve The active rotary count climbed to 36 in the state three more th than n the previous week a new high for the year The Inc firm also has scheduled new drilling in southern Utah's Emery County One well 7 Reserve- Reserve Federal is projected to about feet and the other 11 ll Federal will go to at least feet Location is in In the extreme southwestern portion of the county just to the east of the Fishlake National Forest area A KANE County exploratory exploratory- well will be drilled by Amerada Amerada- Hess Corporation some isome J nine ne miles southwest of Upper Valley field west of the town of ol Escalante The No 1 Federal Federal- Midwest will be drilled to feet Hess Amerada-Hess also has scheduled Nol Federal 1 Skyline a sc test about eight miles southwest of Upper Valley field In the Uinta Basin this week Gulf Oil plans to drill in the Randlett area northwest of Vernal Gulf will wiD drill an foot test about a mile and a half hail away from its 1970 foot discovery well in the field Other new work in the basin is scheduled at Al Altamont lament field and andIn andin andin in the Gusher area |