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Show Drilling Continues i On Two Sites In Millard County ty Col. Roy E. Colton, Geologist At this writing, Gulf Oil Corpor-i Corpor-i at ion and Standard Oil Company i of California are drilling ahead on two drillings, listed in field scout reports as of May 13, 1952 as follows: fol-lows: 1- Gulf Oil Corporation, Bishop's Spring Unit Well Number 1, location loca-tion 8-16-south, range 17-west, S. L. B. & M. Millard County, reported repor-ted as drilling below 8,300 feet. 2- Standard Oil Company of California, Cal-ifornia, et al, Desolation range, Unite Number 1, location 815 feet south and 600 feet east of the NW corner of Section 8, township gas. The northwest trending Confusion Con-fusion Range with its vast system of anticlinoria and synclinoria, offers, of-fers, in the opinion of the writer, excellent possibilities of entrapment entrap-ment of oil and natural gas, formed for-med during the early Paleozoic and late Meszoic geologic time. It is presumed, that it was this visible evidence which prompted company geologists of the Gulf Oil Corporation and the Standard Oil Company to select the drilling sites where their respective companies com-panies are now drilling. Another area of Millard County which will eventually be tested is the district between the Conger Range and Robinsons' Ranch adjacent ad-jacent to Nevada-Utah state line. An anticlinal fold runs northwest from the Conger Range and appears ap-pears to terminate in the Salt Marsh Lake area. If oil is found in a structure of this type it is most generally found in the tops of the folds of the structure where it was deposited during the migration migra-tion of petroleum from the original origin-al source beds to the adjacent porous por-ous strata. NOTE: The geology of west Millard Mil-lard County is extremely complex, and as this pertains to oil and natural gas recovery,, it will be discussed in another article of this series appearing as an exclusive feature in the Millard County Chronicle. RAY E. COLTON. 15 south, range 17 west of S. L. B. & M. Millard County, has resumed re-sumed drilling operations after a tool fishing job, and is reported as below 5548 feet. J Both of the above drilling sites are apparently well located structurally, struc-turally, and are of the anticlinal type of structure, designated and described as "an upward arch of the beds of the earth's surface." Fossil remains of prehistoric mar ine. "sea" life of earlier inundations inunda-tions during Paleozoic and Meso-zoic Meso-zoic times, have, been found in the areas, also some remains of Lake Bonneville times, have been Identified, principly types of oyster like bivalves. As oil is believed to, have originated from the organic materials of marine animal and plant life, the finding of these fossils is indicative of possible petroleum pet-roleum beds beneath the areas of Millard County, where drilling is now in progress. From the viewpoint of possible oil entrapments in various areas of Millard County with especial reference to the Confusion Range and the Snake Valley and Salt Marsh Lake area, these offer much in the catagory of potential production pro-duction of petroleum and natural |