OCR Text |
Show Oldest Wells Again to Yield Oil for Defense BRADFORD, PA. The world's oldest oil field is booming again because be-cause of the national defense emergency. emer-gency. The Pennsylvania sands field in the northwestern part of the state has come back to life. Rigs once more are lined up along the highways high-ways and hundreds of old wells are being cleaned for emergency duty. The reason for the increased activity ac-tivity here is the tanker shortage, which has resulted in smaller shipments ship-ments of western crude and refined products and as a consequent comparative com-parative scarcity of petroleum products prod-ucts on the eastern seaboard. Old wells, small producers that formerly were unprofitable to operate oper-ate under the low prices prevailing previously, are being put back in use with the prospect of better financial returns and the need for their products in the East. Many of the pumpers who are cleaning and working the renovated renovat-ed wells are old-timers who are returning re-turning to the drillings because of the shortage of younger men. The fields in this district are considered con-sidered the oldest in the world but virtually were abandoned due to competition from more productive drillings in other parts of the country. |