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Show GEOLOGIST SEES FUTURE FOR OIL IN UTAH FIELDS MONTICELLO "There is oil in Utah and production will be gained when some of Utah's most favorable favor-able structures are drilled on the flank." said Andrew J. Denney, well known oil man, formerly superintendent superin-tendent of Utah operations for the Ohio Oil cornpany. Mr. Denney, who has always believed be-lieved in the oil possibilities of Utah, returned from a visit on several months to Texas fields, where he studied conditions for the Utah Petroleum Pet-roleum company. He bases his opinion on his observation obser-vation of conditions in Texas and the fact that numerous strong showings nf gas and oil have been struck in Utah on the axes of anticlines. Later these wells have been abandoned v.-Hhout drilling flank wells as at 'res. where sands penetrated on the to-,i ' of the structure and productive only of gas, are big oil producers ".1-rn dvil'ed on the flanks. Not to -lake flank tests in Utah such as that planned bv the Utah Southern it Care Creek is foolish, according to Vr Denney. and inconclusive. The j resources of the state will never be adequately determined, he said, until structures are drilled elsewhere than just on the top. "The amount of oil that is being secured in Texas by drilling on the flanks and in the troughs of syn-ciines syn-ciines is amazing," said Mr. Denney. "Operators tried drilling on the top of the structure in western Texas and got dusters, or gassers. Now drilling drill-ing on the flanks is the accepted order or-der of procedure. "In the Yates pool in Pecos county, 30 miles south of Pecos, well drilled in the trough of the syncline to a depth of 1,300 or 1,400 feet are producing pro-ducing from 150 to 400 barrels of oil an hour. What these wells would do if opened up no one knows for they are flowing at their present rate with valves just cracked open. The oil is about 38 gravity and comes from rocks of the Permian age. ; Oil occurences in Western Texas are serving to overturn preconceived theories of petroleum storage. In the Amarillo field production, Mr. Denney said, is coming from a granite gran-ite wash. Production here, while large, does not hold up long at Amarillo. Am-arillo. Survey. |