Show CASUALLY OBSERVING Present And A FLYING YEAR For a person who had more or less dedicated himself to sticking close to the so far as transportation is I have departed from that course rather consistently this For some reason I had not been lo convince myself that flying was for anyone but the then along came an invitation last to fly with S. Navy to San Since it was on the I accepted the invitation and had my first long plane A CHICAGO ASSIGNMENT Then three weeks ago I was asked by the Utah State Press ito represent it at a meeting in Chicago in an attempt to bring the National Editorial Convention to Utah in Provisions were made for flying back to conserve So I took another hop And my mission to the big windy city was NEA is coming to Utah in SEE NEW OIL FIELD Last Friday I was invited to join other Utah newspaper editors and publishers as guests of the Carter Oil to fly with them over Utah's newest oil which is known as the and is located in the southeastern portion of Utah in San Juan DINNER AND BRIEFING Not only did Carter people take us on a plane ride over the new oil but they entertained us at dinner and paid for reservations at Hotel Utah for the Following a steak Raymond T. Western Division manager for Carter Oil of gave us a very comprehensive briefing on what we would see and told a graphic story of Oil Present and He delved into past history of oil in Utah and made a few predictions for the which indicates our state is being looked to to supply a great portion of the world's oil SEARCH BEGAN IN 1891 The first wildcat test was made 66 years ago in 1891 near Green in Grand by the Bamberger Mills and like hundreds of wells to follow this' test was wildcats were drilled in the Great Salt Lake area in 1895 and In the Uintah Basin in A few shows of oil in these tests and others offered but it was not until 1908 when the state's first oil production was found fn the San Juan Field near Mexican HaL A number of wells were soon drilled in the immediate but the boom was short MUCH DISAPPOINTMENT Between 1908 and 1948 when the first commercial production was discovered in Ashley Valley in the Uintah the search for oil in Utah was fraught with disappointment after Millions of dollars had been spent on geological exploration and the drilling of approximately test NOW ENCOURAGEMENT Encouraged by the small Ashley Valley discovery in the search for oil continued at an accelerated In 1949 the Carter Oil extensive geological and geophysical work in the discovered the first Tertiary oil near Other Tertiary discoveries the principal one of which is Red Wash in Sloan offered encouragement that these areas would again become active in the FIRST DISCOVERY 1954 It was not until 1954 when the first By Cliff commercial well was brought in in the Paradox Then following considerable more exploration the great Aneth Pool was discovered in which signaled the opening of a major oil producing UTAH OIL TODAY The previous comments were taken from Sloan's speech to us Friday He further reported that one of the most prospective oil areas is Utah The state's crude oil reserves are variously estimated as high as million barrels and current oil production averages barrels per day from 26 oil In addition there are gas AN INTERESTING DAY Our flight over a part of Utah which man could not possibly sec except from the air was a Very interesting Our course as we left the Salt Lake Airport about took us over Wasatch Valley into the Uintah Basin traveling east as far as Roosevelt and then south over the Book the LaSalle the beautiful Monument Valley and to the Paradox Guide on our Frontier plane was J. C. Western Division who pointed out the interesting features of the oil producing part of It is almost unbelievable the vast number of oil and producing wells now doting the terrain of that wilderness which had been almost lost to man for generations of ON TO The three planes that carried 60 newspaper and oil people were chartered Frontier Airline and one was Carters own traveled on to the expanding city of N. for refueling and a chance stretch our On the return trip we followed the course chartered for us to take that which took us over and Moab where we were able to see the expanding uranium operations of these two southeastern We flew over my old stomping Carbon and into Utah WONDERFUL HOSTS A group of were never more royally treated than we were by those wonderful Carter It was a delightful experience and one we are all indebted to Carter Oil Company I almost overlooked mentioning our blond stewardess was a native of Orangeville who had lived in Kenilworth while I lived in This helped to get a larger piece of fried chicken during our lunch on the A GREAT FUTURE The greatest thrill most of us got out of the entire evening and day with Carter Oil was the genuine feeling of hope these people hold for our great Sloan was enthusiastic in his prediction that Utah will take its place as one of the truly great oil and gas producing sections of the That Uintah Basin is given a supporting role in prediction was ample reason for me to bring a greater feeling of security for those of us who have chosen this isolated area as a place to build an So thank Carter Oil for this needed boost for all of us in |