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Show ICivvanis Hears Oil Official Discuss Drilling In Basin Kiawnians of the Roosevelt Club and several invited guests, last night heard a most informative informa-tive and interesting discussion on oil v drilling in the Uintah Basin, by Roger S. Frazier, division di-vision superintendent of production pro-duction of Carter Oil Co., of Denver. Mr. Frazier, who was accompanied accom-panied to Roosevelt by Charles Johnson, district chief clerk, and A. M. Current, senior geologist, geo-logist, both of Vernal, gave the group statistics on oil drilling in the Basin and then followed with an illustrated discussion of how drilling actually takes place. He used a miniature oil rig and a chart showing the various var-ious structures of the earth in explaining the procedure in drilling and what had to be found if a well were to be a producer, rather than a dry hole. The Uintah Basin has 70 producing pro-ducing oil wells and a total of approximately 5,500 gallons of oil daily is going from the area by truck to refineries. Mr. Frazier Fra-zier said that generally the proportion pro-portion of producers as coni-pared coni-pared to dry holes are about IV2 to' 10. However, in the Basin Ba-sin they had a better average, about 1 to 7 or 8. There are 15 oil companies active in the promotion pro-motion of oil in the Basin. When asked what he thought the future for the Basin as an oil field was, Mr. Frazier said he' would not like to make any predictions, but was very encouraging. en-couraging. He and Mr. Current both indicated there was too much potential oil wealth in the area for oil companies to forget. The program was arranged by Cliff Memmott, chairman of the program committee and was under un-der the direction of the Public and Business Affairs committee tvith Robert Montgomery, chairman, chair-man, conducting the meeting. A male quartet composed of Ned and Allen Gines, Norman Angus and Lynn White, accom- panied by Patsy Gines, sang two numbers for the group. |