Show Freakish Petroleum Jells When in Contact With Air SALT LAKE CITY CITY Freakish petroleum that jells into a solid after reaching the surface Is flowing flowing flow flow- ing jog from rom a new wildcat well near Roosevelt Utah about miles southeast of ot Salt Lake City The well was drilled nearly two miles deep It flowed 1633 barrels barre of oil in 24 hours when brought In The crude was said to be excellent quality but workers stared as i If unable unable un un- un able to believe their vision as well samples turned from liquid to solid when exposed to air Oil men have called petroleum natures vegetable soup Apparently Apparently Apparently she puts Into it anything that happens to be lying around handy When Then she stirred up this Utah batch some 74 million years ago she had a lot of wax on hand band The oil now flows from the earth at a temperature of 94 9 degrees That makes it a liquid But when It cools below 90 degrees the wax hardens With a true Paul Bunyan touch the oil crews are saying that come winter this stuff can be squirted out of a three inch 1 pipe ipe chopped Into short lengths and hauled to market like fence posts Unfortunately its it's not that simple To truck the oil to the refinery heating coils must be placed in both storage tanks and trucks to make it liquid enough for pumping |