Show Oil aid a d Gas Drilling lo Looks ks' ks Good in Area 1 k The over-all over oil and gas drilling picture in Utah looks good right now now sa says s Carlton Carlton Carlton Carl- Carl ton Stowe staff specialist Utah Geologic Geologic gic and Mineralogical Survey y Oil and gas gas companies have drilled more than feet of hole this year in Utah Thus far 64 wells drilled include in in- clude elude 30 producers completed 23 oil wells and 34 dry holes Mr Stowe said OF THE producerS producerS' two are arc classified classified class class- as new field discoveries Currently 20 drilling rigs are at work in the state This is a definite increase over the figures from last year when 12 were active he said Mr 1 Stowe said the Altamont Field in Duchesne County is where most of the action is is Continued on page 6 Oil and Gas Continued from page 1 TWO WELLS recently completed inthis In Inthis Inthis this area take top lop honors of any Wells completed In the Rocky Mountain Region Re gion glon this year and a third well will soon be completed overshadowing many best producers' producers elsewhere in the Western West Western ern States Stales Mr Stowe said Texaco Incorporated's D Ule D-Ule Ute Tribal some 15 IS miles southwest of the original Altamont discovery well was completed flowing 1212 barrels of oil all and more than 25 million cubic feet of gas a day he said Shell Oil completed Shell Murco Murco Murdock well flowing barrels of oil dally daily and Shell gauged a flow of barrels of oil daily dally at another test 4 miles east cast of the Altamont field he add ed cd Since the field discovery last year by Shell Oil at a well flowing 1100 barrels of oil a day more than barrels of oil have been produced in Altamont Mr Stowe said ELSEWHERE IN the state stale new work is scheduled he pointed out In San Juan County Mobil Oil will drill a projected G foot test 19 ID miles southeast of Blanding The Mobil wildcat is six mile east cast of San Juan County's Hatch field and more than 12 miles northwest of another another an an- other large field in the county Ismay field Mr Stowe said W V. C C. C Inc Denver will move on to an abandoned well drilled in 1967 and attempt to rework and test potential potential po po- po productive zones he said The well is just south of Aneth San Juan County OF THE more significant and interesting inter inter- esting new locations to be drilled arc Occidental Petroleum Denver No 1 Pineview just south of the Pineview vi vicinity vi some 14 miles east cast of Coalville Paul Burchell chief petroleum engineer for the Utah Oil and Gas Conservation Division says that even though the operator op has requested the projected total depth not be released it will be a very deep test Mr Stowe said He lie noted that in Sevier County new drilling Is scheduled along the Hinge Inge Line Champlain Petroleum has announced announced ced another location for a projected foot test at No 31 13 USA nine miles northeast bf Richfield in the Sigurd Sigurd Sig Sig- urd area THIS WILDCAT will be closely watched watch watch- cd ed because of the sparsely drilled area and the significance of the hinge line activity in central Utah Mr Stowe said o. o |