Show Texas firm schedules 5 new wells Five exploratory wells ranging in projected depths from to feet Ceet are scheduled for Cor drilling in central Utah's Wasatch Plateau regions of oC Emery and Sevier counties notes Carlton Stowe minerals specialist Utah Geological Mineral Survey Odessa Natural Corporation Odessa Texas will drill the wells which are all scheduled to test the Dakota formation Lower CLower Cretaceous geologic age Three of oC the wells are in Emery County southwest of Price Utah The No 1 l Federal section 11 township range is projected to feet Itis It Itis Itis is in the East Mountain area about 22 miles southwest of Price and approximately three miles northeast 0 of gas production in the Flat Canyon field The No 1 l Federal section 3 township range to be drilled to feet Ceet for tests is about eight miles south of Flat Canyon field about 10 to miles northwest of or Castle Dale About five miles south of that well is the No 1 I Federal section 34 township range scheduled to feet It is a little less than 13 miles northwest northwest northwest nor nor- of oC Ferron Ferran IN SEVIER County Odessa has scheduled the No 1 Federal section 33 township range projected to feet Ceet and the No 1 Federal section 35 township range SE to about feet Both are in the northeastern corner of the county some 10 to 15 miles southwest of oC Ferron The states state's deepest well Phillips Petroleum's No 1 l U.S. U.S.- E is about 19 miles southwest of the closest Odessa location It was abandoned earlier this year at a total depth of oC feet found oil and gas shows was extensively tested before beCore it was abandoned Phillips has released only a few Cew details on test program ELSEWHERE IN Utah's oil and gas activities this week the Department of oC Natural Resources Division of State Lands announced an offering of oC oil and gas leases and others on 80 tracts containing acres throughout Utah Sealed bids will be accepted until 5 pm p.m. December 26 and opened at 10 am a.m. December 29 at the State Land Office in the State Capitol building Salt Lake City Lands include 11 tracts containing acres for oil shale leases in Carbon Duchesne and Uintah counties 13 tracts covering acres for coal leases In Garfield and Kane counties and eight tracts containing acres for lor geothermal purposes in Beaver eaver and Millard counties Description of these lands may maybe maybe be obtained from the State Land LandOff Off Office ice in Salt Lake City Utah's Oil Shale program was boosted with word received by Mr Stowe from Irom Arthur G G. G McKee Company that it is joining nine oil companies in a joint industry group to study in situ retorting of of oil shale Organized by Western Oil Shale Corporation earlier this year th the experiment will be conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted in the Uinta Basin properties south of 01 Vernal The test will involve mining and the shale material with explosives and burning or otherwise heating the fragmented material in place to liquefy and recover its Us oil con content tent |