Show Coalville Colville Ft Duchesne test well drilling told fold Colorado and Fuel Resources Development Company Colorado based oil and gas companies are beginning drilling operations at ata a new exploratory well three miles east of Coalville reports Carlton Stowe minerals specialist Utah Geological and Mineral Survey The new well approved last week for drilling by the Utah Division of oC Oil and Gas Conservation is to be drilled to toa toa toa a projected ted feet for Cor testing of the Nugget formation formati n. n Drilling is being done on acreage owned by Amoco Production The new well is the No 44 1 in section 1 township range just east of the town Rig was moved to the location by Nabors Drilling Company THE TIIE TEST well is nine miles west of the recent Nugget formation oil discovery by American Quasar Company at atthe atthe atthe the No 1 Newton Sheep Company in the Pine View area This well is producing at atthe atthe the barrels daily rate from a depth of to 36 feet Another well a half a mile to the north- north northeast is drilling below feet and is scheduled to feet to test the nugget formation New oil and gas leasing is is' being conducted in the area this week by several independent oil and gas men Acreage under leasing is reportedly in the area west of Coalville to the north and to the southwest A hearl hearing g was conducted by the Oil and Gas Division March 19 on a acre spacing proposal requested by American Quasar for future drilling in the vicinity ELSEWHERE in Utah Mr Stowe reports Chevron Oil Co Company has announced it will begin tests of what may be a possible new oil discovery some 10 miles southeast of Fort Duchesne about 12 miles north of the town of Ouray Chevron says it has set production casing at the No 1 1 G Pelican-Federal Pelican in Uintah Count County To Total l depth th of the well is 8 feet leet it is six miles northeast of the abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- Randlett area arca oil field a little more than six miles south of Gusher fields field's shut-in shut oil production and 11 miles southeast of current deep oil and gas production in Bluebell field AN OIL and gas lease sale held this month on Uintah and Ouray lands in this area brought more than 1 million in bids Lands in that sale were fairly heavily concentrated within a half a dozen miles to the west and southwest of oC the Chevron well Ten new wells within the Bluebell Altamont-Bluebell Cedar Rim and Starvation Reservoir areas were completed this week noted Mr Stowe towe Completion gauges range from barrels daily to barrels per day Several additional wells in the fields are nearing completion The Strawberry reservoir deep wildcat well being drilled by Chevron Oil Company reached the foot level this thus week Chevron plans to drill the well to at least feet Contractor is Loffland Drilling Company |