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Show Well Organized Test Promised At Virgin Dome By California Operators That the Virgin Anticline area in Washington County, Southwestern Southwest-ern Utah, is about to receive the intelligent development for oil production pro-duction that it should have had years ago, is evidenced by the announcement an-nouncement in Long Beach yesterday yester-day that drilling operations on the old Virgin Dome Oil company's well will start on November 15. C. E. Anderson and H. T. Cypher, well known and experienced oil operators, are reported to now own and control large blocks of leases on the Harrisburg, Washington and Bloomington domes of this great anticline, including the Virgin Dome company well on the Horrisburg Dome and are installing install-ing equipment at this time for the completion of the well. Cable tools and standard rig are already in place for the beginning of drilling, and electric power will be used, installation of motor control con-trol units now being under way. A survey of the hole made for Anderson and Cypher shows that the Virgin Dome company found forty-three feet of a coarse-grained heavily saturated oil sand at from 2954 to 2997 feet, carrying a light oil of 39 gravity, and that commercial com-mercial production was not secured secur-ed because of failure in a water shut-off above the pay horizon, reports Mr. Cypher. Identification of the formation in which this pay sand was found (Continued on page four) To Test Virgin Dome (Continued from first page) reveals that it is in the Upper Redwall of the Pennsylvanian Series and that is correlates un-1 questionably with the pay horizon ! in the same Series as found by Continental Oil company some years ago in a deep test well in the San Juan Basin of Northwestern North-western Utah as proved by the drill in this hole is a sandy limestone lime-stone and is verv similar in nnrn- sity and texture to correlated members of the Pennsylvanian Series in producing areas of north Texas. High Gravity Oil It is interesting to know that up to this time pay sands in different formations of Pennsylvanian time in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain petroleum provinces have never produced any but high gravity oils. Possibilities of the Virgin anticlinal area also include production in' the Lower Redwall, probably of Mississippian age, immediately im-mediately below the Upper Red-wall. Red-wall. The Lower Redwall may correlate cor-relate with the Madison limestone of Mississippian time, which is an important producing horizon in the Sweetgrass district of Montana. Mon-tana. With ample finances and many years of practical oil field experience, experi-ence, speed and efficiency may be expected of these operators, say those who know the men. H. T. Cypher was with the Standard Oil of California in an executive capacity for several years and will be in active charge of drilling operations on the Harrisburg Dome. C. E. Anderson, who will also be active in the field work, is a very well-known Southern California Cali-fornia operator who own four producing pro-ducing wells on Signal Hill and Hungington Beach and is interested interest-ed in other producing wells in these and other California fields. The well on the Harrisburg Dome is at an altitude of 2800 feet and is said to be in splendid condition for completion. A plentiful plenti-ful supply of water is furnished by an unfailing flowing spring and road approaches are first class. Mr. ' Cypher is of the opinion that production approximating one thousand barrels a day will be secured in this hole with a proper water shut-off and the survey shows that such a shut-off undoubtedly un-doubtedly will be secured with proper drilling direction. Oil men generally in this section are watching watch-ing this drilling with very close interest as the expected success will mean not only a new field in a new pay horizon, but also an entirely new oil province in western Utah. |