Show Oil Companies Wildcat I In Uintah Basin J I. I Q n oats MM I w I L MW M M i ip t P.-t t. t co A AU i N o A 4 r A A HuT Wit LAKI IT a A 1 o v z o a t t YC I I U I- I IN N r A A S I N N I I I I i l I J ou 1 F Std UINTA U I NT A BASIN BAS I cl- cl clANO AND ANO VICINITY Yd Y t IU Oil world is watching this spot on map map Utah's Utah's Uintah Ui ta Basin Stimulated by the development of oil in the Rangely field just across the state line in to Colorado renewed interest is being manifest in the possibility of adding Utah to the column of oil producing states Drilling program which is being watched with interest is that of the Carter Oil Company one of the nations nation's large oil companies which ig i. it drilling a structure about 12 miles north of Vernal in the basin Oil leases covering virtually the entire basin from Vernal Ver Ver- Vernal Vernal nal to Roosevelt have been taken up and results of the Carter Wild Wild- Wildcat Wildcat Wildcat cat test will have a bearing on fu- fu furore fu fu- future future ture rore activity throughout the basin The Carter test has reached a depth of 7 feet and the objective ob ob- objective objective sand is expected to be en en- encountered encountered encountered j countered somewhere between 7 feet and feet Another wildcat which is being bei watched is that of the Western Oil Corporation on the Gordon j Creek structure 15 miles west of Price The well has reached a depth of feet and is the deep- deep deepest deepest I j jest est well ever drilled in Utah Objectives of the drilling ar are an tho th first productive sand the Coconino expected at to feet and anti the Weber formation at nt greater gr ater depth Oil in commercial quantities quantities quantities' would be a welcome addition to Utah's long list of minerals J J a |