| Show UTAH UTA OIL WELL GOU PRODUCER ER I BETTER THAN THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY BARRELS PER DAY BEING STORED i I First Oil Well In State Is Brought In InNear InNear InNear Near Moab Fire Has Been Deen Put PutOut PutOut PutOut Out With Rigging A Total Loss Salt Lake City Utah's Utah's first allwell oil all well is flowing at the rate of considerably considerably consid consid- more than barrels of oil oila a day according to the announcement made by President George T. T Hansen Ian Han sen sea sen of the Utah Southern Oil com com- pany any The fire that ignited when the well blew in has been put out Mr Hansen stated by the tho use of steam and fire chemicals The surface buildings were saved but the rigging was burned down and the tools scattered scat scat- feted by flan th first brat explosion of oil ail and gas A dyke has been constructed and the oil Is being run into a pool and will be saved It is announced It Is la impossible to shut off the flow of oil by capping the casing as it would then be forced up through the hole outside of the casing The engineers engineerIng engineer engineer- Ing problem of ot cementing off oft the casing casing cas cas- ing is one ono that will be solved later Mr Hansen stated and is not worrying worry ing lug him at this time as all of the oil Is being saved The fact that the oil well blew in before the drills had Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- Pennsylvania sylvania sands indicated a heavy pro pro- The general rule according tn to Mr n. n I. I la nt n darn Y v not come until the hole has been drilled drilled drill drill- ed Id several feet into the time producing horizon The bits were barely on top of the Pennsylvania horizon when the oil was forced out by the tho gas pres pres- sure Tho The well had been drilled to a depth of 2028 2025 feet when It came In the fire starting from sparks spark caused causell when rocks were forced out of the hole orby or orby orby by the clashing together of steel tools when tossed into the air when the oil gusher broke loose The well is on what the Utah Southern South Southern ern Oil company's engineering maps show to be the tho Kane Creek dome or part of the Big Dig Six dome as the territory territory ter ter- is known around Moab It is just seven miles by air line from Moab which Is thirty five miles from Thompsons on the Denver Rio Grande railroad The Tho well is on a government lease the lease being In the name nume of ot l Frank rank L Outdo Ul in ul PI ana anu us ItS des aea designation ignation is tho the Utah Midwest South Southern ern era Shafer No 1 The Midwest Re ne fining company of Denver nenver Colo one of the large Standard OH Oil companies and the Utah Southern Oil company held ld by Salt Lake and Denver Dener and San Francisco Interests and also the General Petroleum company of Call Cali fornia were jointly drilling the well It is the first commercial oil well to be brought In in Utah and has bas consequently con consequently caused much excitement not only in Salt Lake but In Denver nenver and throughout the tho entire western states It means says sas Mr Hansen that the entire southeastern part purt of Utah may be drilled with prospects of oil The Utah Southern has extensive holdings s around the Moab field and also In the San Juan fields further south In Utah The Canyon well will bo ho watched with keen klen Interest far rr f r If it the Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania horizon productive there It will prove provo the entire southeastern part of Utah as a productive area The Pennsylvania strata Is below the shallow sands from where oil prod no tion has been ben obtained ld for many years |
