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Show .B55I :. Sr ?T ssfc-i- : ?l:v . .:$ .' ' fc: K t tlr- v H aK.L&t. CO 0 1 N O v7 & j? Aj U ; f J tl co ef i&tJ fyHitficaitce itt The UfoAt Vol 28; No. 33 - J'j iHing Oil l i Wcti4 I I Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, October If 10 i i; it , I 26 Wells on June 1st Three States Reports Three States Natural Gas Co., as operator, and with other firms has drilled 26 wells since June 1 in the Four Corners area, according to Everett A. Jenkins, executive vice president. He said 13 of the wells were plugged as dry, six were completed as gas wells and seven as oil this will increase its cash income between $750,000 and $1,250,000 a year. He also said that Three States has entered into a contract for sale of gas produced with oil from the Aneth area wells with El Paso Natural Gas Co., now preparing to construct a plant for extraction of liquids from the wells. Mr. Jenkins will make his re- casinghead gas. port to stockholders at Three Starting price for this gas is States annual meeting in Dallas, 20 cents a thousand cubic feet, tex. which we consider very favorDuring the period the company, able, Mr. Jenkins said. as operator on lands held 50-5- 0 We also are negotiating with States Three and El Paso for the sale of gas from Reynolds by shut-i- n wells four the Co., Mining completed gas wells on bur bounin the Arrowhead Block in South- dary Butte Block, in which we er western Utah, making a total of have a interest with six completed in those leases in Western Natural Gas Co. and the west part of the Aneth pool. others. one-quart- Average per well potential of the six wells is 1,105 barrels a day, according to Mr. Jenkins. Potential of the largest producer is 2,368 barrels a day and the smallest 120 barrels a day. The oil is 42 gravity with a gas-o- il ratio averaging 760 cubic feet per bamell. He said Three States has been informed by Four Corners Pipeline Co. officials, who are laying a line from California into the field, that they will start taking some oil to fill the line probably in November. "Regular runs will commence about the first of the year, the oil executive said, and we are advised that we can expect daily allowables of 200 barrels per well or better, with a price of $3 a barrel. He added that Three States plans to keep two rigs running on these development wells as long as it gets producers of this average capacity. He said the company estimates - . early to predict our income from the two contracts, but it should be substantial. He said that since commencement of the present fiscal year, Three States with its partners have entered into trades on various wildcats of acerage in the Four Corners area. This will re suit in the drilling of at least 16 wells by others on Three States acerage at no cost to the company, and if sucsessful, sould result in drilling of another six or eight It is ito wells. The new tests mill be drilled on six blocks aggregating 132,000 gross acres, with Three states owning various but substantial interests in each block. He said the company itself would spend in excess of one million dollars in field development duriny fiscal 1958. In addition, the company has filed on 100,000 acres in (the developing Alaskan oil plaf areas where it is generallf adpacent to or surrounded by major company leaseholdings. Miners Receive ' Safety Training . , V: -V- -i t 1 ndustry A group of internationally known industrial leaders, legislators and businessmen visited the Flaming Gorge Damsite across the Green River and the extensive phosphate deposits near Vernal, Utah. Gov. George D. Clyde, heading the group said he had not realized the magnitude of the phosphate deposits nor the huge industry planned to develop these. D. L. King, Montpelier, Idaho, president of the San Francisco Chemical Co., said his firm is total investment to over any.-ga- the Ute Trail discoveries of Havens trite and Sun Oil Companies; Continental Oil Co.s C h a p e t a Wells gas field and the Peters Point field of Pacifics parent El Paso Natural Gas Co. A somewhat similar study was under way several years ago by Utah Natural Gas Co., a subsidiary of El Paso Natural Gas Co., which carries fuel from Wasatch Plateau fields in central Utah to the mouth of Provo Canyon for sale to Mountain Fuel Supply Co In tiie past, Standard Oil Com- s pany of California has declined to sell any gas from Red Wash on grounds that it might be needed later in repressurization and secondary recovery programs. How ever, the firm actively is studying drilling repressurization, pattern for oil wells, etc., and if a natural gasoline plant was built in the area, some gas might be available for sale to transmission (Continued on page 4) area. Mr. Pliley said that, if built, the new transmission lateral probably would run due east from the main system near Rangely Field, Colo. It would not be a loop of the 40-ac- Rangely lateral but a separate line, he added. The principal reserves now under study include the Red Hollow oil and gas fields; Wash-Walk- n er re . - t h &f As y J t- . 'k ' :Ai v v i' , n w ' ; A . , ;; -- . 4 . J . - v , I tpZ'j' 't - ' Us 'V ' v 4 ' t , j f&ZJL ft A f V Sv , v' t i . ' , 4 . 4'r v 't- ' il a v J v ' ' t . 1 Kh 3 I v. 1 ' t ' 4 V .V " . ' v , A ' A V t , 7 Ten miners in Wattis, Carbon County, Utah completed an intensive rescue and recovery training program under the direction of a representative from the U. S. Bureau of Mines: The t s J VViW.V.V.'. f . ticipated production of Flaming Gorge power plant. The elemental phosphorus furnaces would be installed only if sufficient power could be obtained at a rate of three to five mills per kilowatt hour, he said. The phosphate deposits could be developed for use solely in commercial fertilizers but this would be backing into the situation, he said. The party traveled to Brush Creek Gorge to view the phosphate deposits and then on to Flaming Gorge Damsite in automobiles provided by the Vernal Chamber of Commerce. San Francisco Chemical Co. now holds 26 square miles of this land on which is a deep bed of 20 per cent tricalcium phosphate. Much of the phosphate deposit can be mined by surface methods after the overburden is stripped off, Mr. King said. He said that As well as being one of the worlds largest deposits of phosphates, this promises to be one of the easiest worked because it is not fractured or faulted and lies on Weber sandstone as flat as a billiard table, 20-fo- ot Emmons Delays Coal Lease Plan WASHINGTON Indian affairs Commissioner Glenn L. Emmons Monday postponed action on a proposed contract under which the Utah Construction Co. would lease more than 24,000 acres of coal lands on the Navajo Indian Reservation in New Mexico. An official of the Indian Bureau said the delay was decided upon to permit further study of right-of-wrequirements for an oil pipeline in ithe area. He said an oil company already has ay ? s c Vv v; .r? .5 A - V of London and a director of Mountain Copper, represented his firm on the inspection tour. The Flaming Gorge Dam project fits into the picture because it is looked to as the source of water and cheap electric power for min-n- g and processing the ore. Mr. King said production at the phosphate operation is scheduled to begin in 1962 when power from the Flaming Gorge Dam is to be lion, Mr. King said. San Francisco Chemical Co. is owned half by Stauffer Chemical Co., one of this nations industrial giants, and half by Mountain Cop- ready for delivery. per Co. of London, England, Sir Mr. King said that they could Denys Lowson, former lord mayor use a constant load for the electric furnaces equal to the average an- Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. is studying the feasibility of building natural gas transmission laterals eastward into the Uintah Basin, an official at Salt Lake headquarters of the company confirmed recently. Charles Pliley, manager of gas supplies for the transmission firm, said his company "was studying the reserve and engineering situation as it affects gas fields in the big basin. He emphasized that Pacific had not signed purchase contracts with any operators in the : safety representative of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. Those receiving the training certificates were (as shown in accompanying, picture, left to right, front row): Floyd Marx, Joseph Feichko, Paul TwaddeU, Bland Tuttle, William B. Gazdik of the U. S. Geological Survey; back left row: Earl McAlpine, LaVoy Hardee, Walter R. Curtis, Leonard Brown and James A. Zubal, instructor. Not shown in the picture, but who also received train- $20 mil- PNP Studies Pipeline Plan for Uintah Basin WATTIS, Utah Ten local miners just completed a weeks intensive rescue and recovery training, with instructions by James Zubal, ing was Boyd Harvey. The job included training in a gas tank, with the men exposed to a tenth of one per cent of carbon monoxide gas. Remainder of the course was performed underground, simulating removing and rescue of miners from the mine. More training will be launched here after the first of the year, and will include first aid work. planning a development to cost from $3 million to $15 million to mine and beneficiate the phosphate ore. Stauffer Chemical Co., plans to build electric furnaces to refine elemental phosphorus. This investment would boost the ? purpose of the course was to learn how to perform during a disaster in a mine. Deseret News photograph. been granted a permit to build the line. Norman Littell, attorney for the Navajo Indians, suggested that no action be taken ait this time on the coal lease. He will confer with Navajo tribal leaders on the matter. The lease contract has been signed by the Utah company and by Navajo tribal chairman Paul Jones, but must be approved by the Indian Affairs commissioner before it is final. The bureau declined to make public details of the contract at this time. |