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Show r ! r . a- X ; I 'LrV " ' " S ' " ' f C ".., -rr , .A Y t: i . T i i 'I i - w , LOFF LAND'S NEW RIG: . It's not really new, but before starting the present well, they did a lot of work, building it up some eight feet higher high-er in order to install more blow-out preventer equipment. It is hoped that with the modifications, they will be able to. probe the 6-8,000 ft. horizon on the Phillips Petroleum lease in the Roosevelt Springs KGRA, about 13 miles northeast of Milford. With the exception of the University of Utah, which has several crews working in the area on a $360,000 National Science Foundation grant, no other geothermal exploration is being done in the area. This could possibly be due to the loss of the oil ' depletion allowance to the big oil companies. |