Show Oil il Field ty tyAs Booms As Riffs Rigs Return Relur l Huge uge Drilling Program i i Now Getting Underway Promise Promise of new pipe line out out- outlets lets and good weather has sent oil operators all out in further development of the Rangely oil oilfield oilfield field Twenty four new oil well lo- lo locations lo I ca ons have been staked out for forthe 4 the drilling crews and forty forty- I seven drilling rigs are now in operation Eighteen of the new locations were announced dur- dur ng the past week eight by the California alifornia Company six by bythe Oil and Gas Gas three by the bythe Texas Company and one by the Wasatch Idaho com com- combine combine bine Less than three years after the development of the field was started in earnest it now has producing Weber weber sand wells with the numbe number ing lug almost daily The U S geo geo- geo- geo logical geological survey estimates that the Meld Feld has a minimum of lo- lo Nations lations on a forty-acre forty spacing pattern Encouraging the accelerated development work was the re re- re recent recent cent announcement that Stano- Stano lind lied Gas Oil Co owner of the only pipe line out of Rangely had increased the capacity of the line from to barrels daily dally by completion of ofa ofa a pump station at Sunbeam i Colo With the increase in ca ca- ca capacity of its line fj notified operators it would now purchase barrels daily dally from each Rangely well we'll compared with a previous limit of bar j I This firm also is reported I ready to begin laying a new 18 Inch line to Wamsutter Wyo I which will carry an additional additional barrels a day Also pushing the develop develop- I ment went of the field was wall the an an- an announcement announcement two weeks ago by Standard Oil of California that Wt will in 1948 build a new 25 barrel per day line from Rangely to Salt SaU Lake City through Uintah County which will parallel the Uintah range for nearly miles Thus by late next summer the two I pipes and the dS i Standard n line would be moving a total of barrels daily dally from Rangely biggest field de de- de developed de- de developed in the United States in more than a decade However to top it all off oU and make possible even more pipe pipe- pipeline pipeline line out of the field officials of the Utah Oil Refining Co a sub sub- subsidiary subsidiary of Standard Oil Co of ot Indiana a few days following the California Co announce announce- announcement ment t relative to its proposed pipe line from Rangely to Salt Lake Lake announced that the Utah company might go ahead with the construction of its previous previous- previously ly planned pipeline between hese two points thus making wo wo pipe lines from Rangely to Salt Lake Qty pity through Uintah id county or h a total of four lines out cut of the field permitting a total flow of barrels dally daily Also under consideration for later construction by Standard Oil of California is a Rangely to Los Angeles pipe line y The Oil Reporter magazine In its June 17 issue says to watch Vatch atch for at least one strong operator op to pop in In- In Into yf to the refinery picture in west west- western western ern Colorado with its own pipe pipeline line for Rangely crude |