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Show Near Duchesne .... Elmer Moon Wildcat Listed As Latest Carter Oil Well Carter Oil Company has announced an-nounced another producing oil well in the Duchesne pool as their Elmer Moon No. 1 wildcat well last Friday flowed oil at the rate of 20 barrels every 40 minutes. They are now completing complet-ing the necessary casing and other details proparatory to beginning be-ginning commercial production at the Elmer Moon well. The well is located about 6 miles northeast of Duchesne City. Optimism was high in the company as to the prospects of their Joseph Smith No. 1 wildcat in the Flat Mesa, two miles north of the City of Duchesne, Du-chesne, where they were coring aneaa early this week at about 8,913 feet. "Everything points to another discovery well at the Joseph Smith No. 1, but we are no ready to announce it ay a well," an official of the company said Wednesday. Officials of the affiliate .of Standard Oil Co of New Jersey said the Elmer Moon wildcat was being tested through a V4-inch V4-inch gauge. The flow was obtained after treatment of an interval in the Greenriver formation estimated at between 6400 and 6571 feet, plugged back total depth of the Antelope area test. . Some 4000 gallons of acid were introduced into' the well under pressure in the' treatment program. 5 Recovery of the 20 barrels of oil, cut 110 of 1-ner cent with basic sediments, through the one-half inch choke was one of several gauges made by the firm. An earlier gauge over a six-hour six-hour period through a one-fourth one-fourth inch choke saw a flow of 82 barrels of fluid, of which 99.4 per cent was oil. As gauging is continuing and as there is sometimes a "bounce back" after introduc- tion of acid under pressure in .. a productive formation no ac-curate ac-curate estimate could be made of what the well would do under un-der regular commercial production. |