Show SURPRISES IN OIL INDUSTRY since time of drakes discovery every deiy new field has added something new since the oil industry began it has teen been a succession of surprises drakes discovery well was a surprise to most persons since that time every new liem has added something new for several years every individual well wasa was in revelation peculiarities wen observed not found und in their predecessors then chenow things were foual in localities it is s the same way yet 1 oil refuses to abide by the rules aal anil croak wells persist the driller of long experience is constantly expecting something different from anything he has ever encountered it is this novelty that makes the oil business so EO fascinating but the same thing increases the hazard the latest reported oddity is the discovery of heavy oil in the caddo deep sand saad the opening ot of a high grade oil field in that locality was a surprise to all and to many a disagreeable one but when that grade of crude had come to be the expected thing from the deep sand there a well Is drilled in alon glde gilde the field that produces oil of 30 degrees gravity from the same send sand that yields the oil of high gravity A few days earlier a well found the light otilit oil in a shallow sand and then caved in and was spoiled so it will probably go to the end of the chapter science can guess at tha probabilities below balow the surface but until a means Is devised to see into the carth for several thousand i 1 feet as the xray X ray enables us its to see j a sheet of steel the oil business vall v sil be uncertain and full of 0 surprises it is hazardous fazardo us in all its branches and will continue to be ba oil city derrick |