Davies voices support for east coast to Texas pipeline plan
Ralph E. Davies praises a major pipeline project linking the east coast to Texas as a boon for national defense and for Texas oil production. He notes Senator O Daniel opposes the plan while detailing industry conditions, drilling activity on the South Plains, and shortages in steel casing affecting small operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph E. Davies
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
W. Lee O'Daniel
Texas
Wheeler County Oil Well Flows At 1440 Bbls Potential
A Wheeler County well labeled No. 2 Sloss or No. 2 Walker by H L Guild of Oklahoma City flowed up to 30 barrels in 30 minutes and could reach 1440 barrels in 24 hours if sustained. The district reported sixteen oil completions last week with total daily potential around 2906 barrels, including Texas Company and Phillips Petroleum wells across several sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler County
H. L. Guild
Oklahoma City
H&gn
Osborne Field
Pradiaiban Baste
Hutchinson Nichols Oil Co
Cockrell Ranch
TCRR
Phillips Petroleum Co
Lizzie
TCAR
Shell Oil Co. Inc
Shell Oil Co, Inc
H&tc
Wheeler H. L. Guild
Walker
Marland Fortune Has Melted Away
Newkirk Oklahoma October 11 remnants of the late E W Marlands 85 million oil empire were listed today as two small pieces of real estate and a few personal possessions when the former Oklahoma governor's will was filed in county court The will leaves the estate to the widow Mrs Marland and designates her executrix Heirs named include Mrs Marland and George R Mar land foster son of the late oil king The sale proceeds of the Ponca City mansion are said to go directly to Mrs Marland and are not included in the will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newkirk
Okla
E. W. Marland
Oklahoma
Marland
Ponca City
George R. Marland
Oil Philanthropist Mallinson Dies in Dallas
Herbert Mallinson oil man and philanthropist died in Dallas at age 7 while attending the Jewish Federation for Social Service event. He had served as its president and later as a director. A heart attack ended his life before medical help arrived. he was a native of Tyler and active in civic and fraternal work for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Herbert Mallinson
Mallinson
Jewish Federation For Social Service
Hils
Qrielly
St Antecnda
Tyler
Elvic
API Meeting of Pampa Tuesday
Oscar Haas of Tulsa Oklahoma will speak at the Panhandle chapter of the American Petroleum Institute meeting in Pampa on Tuesday at 8 pm in the city auditorium. The topic is "Priorities" with a Bureau of Mines film on diesel engines. Gordon Burch of Borger will present the film. admission is free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pampa
Oscar Haas
Tulsa
Okla
Panhandle
American Petroleum Institute
Haas
Allis-Chalmers Company
Washington
Bureau of Mines
Gordon Burch
Borger
Oil Shortages Strain Mid Continent Plants in 1941
The Great Mid-Continent petroleum area faces rising demand as Eastern refinery bans on shipments prompt Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee to seek more motor fuel. Refiners run at peak capacity while independents press for easing imports at Tulsa IPAA meeting amid rising foreign oil intake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Mid-Continent
Atlantic Seaboard
Middle Western
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Oil & Gas Journal
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Office of Petroleum Coordination
Office of Production Management
The
Oil and Gas Journal
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Russell B. Brown
IPAA
Francis Maloney
Shamrock Co Holds First Aid Contest at McKee Plant
Shamrock Oil and Gas staged its annual employee first aid contest and barbecue at the McKee plant seven miles northeast of Dumas. Officials from Pittsburgh offices attended with employees and families from Moore and Gray counties, Amarillo divisional offices, and from Colorado and New Mexico bulk stations. Nine six man teams competed under safety director EB Q. Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dumas
Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation
McKee
Pittsburgh
Moore
Gray Counties
Amarillo
Colorado
New Mexic
EB Q. Mills
Sharp Decline In Field Production
Panhandle production fell last week with a daily field average of 12 563 barrels, below the prior week’s level. The weekly total reached 482 180 barrels across 5 261 wells, with per well daily averages by county including Carson 8 752, Gray 30 371, Hutchinson 24 742, Moore 384, and Wheeler 4 751 barrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Carson County
Gray County
Hutchinson County
Moore County
Wheeler County
Independent Operators Challenge New Panhandle Proration Rules
Panhandle operators dispute the October 1 proration order claiming it harms small lease owners by rewarding large tracts and poorly developed wells. The Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association calls a meeting at the Herring Hotel to discuss the order, its effects on output, tax revenue, and conservation. The statement highlights specific well counts and barrel increases for Texas Company and Skelly Oil, arguing the ten acre pattern disadvantages independents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association
Herring Hotel
Texas Company
Skelly Oil Company
Skelly Company
Panhandle Producers
Lord Marley Ends Beaumont Talk on Oil Power in War
Lord Marley deputy speaker of the British House of Lords told the 22nd annual Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association convention that the next year could decide the war. He warned Britain could be invaded and that oil sources will dominate any postwar world, citing German gains and Allied oil supplies. The event also marked the unveiling of a granite shaft at Spindletop in memory of Capt. Anthony Lucas, founder of Texas’ modern oil era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Marley
Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
British Isles
United States
Britain
Russia
Near East
Caucasus
Hitler
Crimea
Black Sea
Turkey
America
Germany
Spain
North
Africa
Spindletop
Anthony F. Lucas
Texas
Association
Everett de Golver
Dallas
Petroleum Conservation
Lucas
George A. Hill, Jr
Houston Oil
George Sawtelle
Houston
E. L. Smith, Sr
J. Cooke Wilson
Beaumont
Gulf Coast District
B. L. Lefevre
Big Spring
West Texas
Expect Big Crowd At Compact Meeting
The Interstate Oil Compact Commission plans a Fort Worth Texas meeting on October 16 with officials from eleven member states. Harold L. Ickes regrets missing the event and sends representatives Robert E. Allen and E. DeGolver to discuss Steel Priorities and Conservation. A. G. White will speak on Bureau of Mines forecasts. Texas Governor Coke R. Stevenson will attend and give the welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Fort Worth
Tex
National Defense
Harold L. Ickes
Robert E. Allen
E. DeGolver
Allen
Mr. DeGolver
A. G. White
Petroleum Economics
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Coke R. Stevenson
Texas
Henderson Opens Mid-Continent Crude Price Probe
Price Administrator Leon Henderson said his office and the petroleum coordinator have begun an investigation into Mid-Continent crude to decide if a general price increase is desirable. He noted several leading producers favor boosts, but no general price change will be made during the inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Leon Henderson
Office of
Petroleum Coordinator
Henderson
Texoma's New Plant Nears Completion
DUMAS Oklahoma October 11 Texoma Natural Gas Co booster plant in eastern Moore County expected in operation January 1 if current schedules hold. construction is 35 to 50 percent complete with over half of 17 four room and 3 five room homes for workers finished. Project directed by Dresser Engineering Co Tulsa and J C Barnhard Texoma chief engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dumas
Texoma Natural Gas Co
Moore County
Dresser Engineering Co
Tulsa
Okla
J. C. Barnhard
Texoma
University Sponsored Tax Assessing School Described
The University of Texas hosts an assessors institute October 14-15 to train city county state and school assessors in oil gas utilities and urban land valuation. Experts include J W Hartman B D Crane and Dr Ronald B Welch. Aldro Jenks chairs the event highlighting Texas gas production as context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
University of Texas-sponsored
First Assessors Institute
J. W. Hartman
Los Angeles
National Association of Assessing Officers
B.D. Crane
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Ronald B. Welch
Chicago
Bureau of Municipal Research
Aldro Jenks
Large Panhandle oil deal nets Gordon Burch sale to J M Huber Inc
Hutchinson County, Texas with 220 acres in section 24 block Y A B survey and 400 acres in Price and Evans surveys, plus two farms, sold for 200000 cash. Producing wells total around two dozen across Weatherly and Huber lease areas. Burch, a former drilling contractor, built a substantial independent oil property portfolio in the Panhandle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Gordon Burch
J. M. Huber, Inc
Block Y
Hutchinson County
Huber
Gas Association To Hold Streamlined Atlantic City Convention
The American Gas Association will meet October 20–22 in Atlantic City with no entertainment events to emphasize national defense. President Thomas J. Strickler says two and a half days replace a longer program, featuring panel discussions on emergency defense, plant protection, and gas industry roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
American Gas Association
Atlantic City
Thomas J. Strickler
Mr. St
Strickler
United Gas
Hugh H. Clegg
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States
Home Service
J. Ernestine Becker
E. V. McCollum
Oil Industry Meeting Calendar Highlights 1942
A condensed schedule lists upcoming regional and national oil and gas meetings across the United States. It includes the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Pacific Section in Los Angeles, the Petroleum Division of AIME in Dallas, the National Stripper Well Assn in Tulsa, the IPAA in Tulsa, the American Gas Assn in Atlantic City, and the API national meeting in San Francisco with various December and February events noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Pacific
Los Angeles
American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers
Petroleum Division
Dallas
Texas
Western Petroleum Refiners Assn
Washington-Youree
Shreveport
National
Tulsa
Okla
Independent Petroleum Assn. of America
American Gas Assn
Atlantic City
N. J
American Petroleum Institute
Southwestern District
Spring Meeting
Adolphus Hotel
Texas Oil & Gas Assn
Wichita Falls
Tex
Ickes Plans Regional Offices for Defense Oil
Defense Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes announced regional headquarters to open soon in New York Chicago Houston Denver and Los Angeles Each office will govern its region and work with industry committees Houston will serve Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Texas and New Mexico Chicago will cover Iowa Missouri Oklahoma and Kansas
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Defense
Harold JL Ickes
New York
Chicago
Houston
Denver
Los Angeles
Ickes
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
New Mexico
Iowa
Missour
Oklahoma
Kansas
Panhandle oil locations listed across Hutchinson County area
Forty new locations announced last week in the Panhandle field include twenty four in Hutchinson County with six teen filed by Dave Rubin on the Merchant and eight on the Whittenburg. Other placements appear in Bailey Carson Gray and Wheeler counties with multiple well sites indicated by numerous companies and landowners such as Broderick Calvert Amon Carter Phillips Petroleum Skelly Oil and Timms-Fogerty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Dave Rubin
Merchant
Whittenburg
Hutchinson County
Bailey County
West Texas
Broderick Calvert
Amon Carter
Carson County
Gray County
Wheeler County
Gray
Cree & Hoover
Jackson
H&gn
Moran Bros
Davidson
Albert Crenshaw
Benton
I&gn
Phillips Petroleum Co
Swanson
Skelly Oil Co
Lovett
Schaffer
Smith Bros. Et al
Hutchinson
Danube Oil Corp
Sanfi A
H&tc
Parton & Holt
H&ob
Supreme
Shell Oil Co. Inc
Harvey
Watkins
Harry Stekel
H&tc Survey
Wheeler Charlotte Oil Co
Mitchell
Johnson
Texas Drives U S Oil Output Higher in Week
Houston dispatch reports domestic crude oil production rose to an average of 4 065 950 barrels daily for the week ending today. Texas led gains with 1 464 400 barrels daily, up 220 500 as output returned to full speed. Other states show mixed changes in the weekly totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
U.P
Oi! Weekly
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Texas
California
Oklahoma
Illinois
Louisiana
Kansas
New Mexico
Eastern States
Mountain States
Michigan
Indiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Nebraska
Railroads Increase Fuel Oil Purchases Through June 1941
The expansion of railroad operations shows in an 18 percent rise in petroleum fuel purchases in the first half of 1941. Railroads bought about 1.63 billion gallons of fuel oil gasoline and diesel, led by fuel oil at 95 percent of total, with diesel oil rising to 54 million gallons from 37 million a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission Announces Some Special Orders
The railroad commission issued several orders affecting Texas fields. Actions include repressuring the E F Cowden A 37 well in South Cowden Ector County. Bridwell Oil Co Hoff man No 5 C and other wells in Ben Bolt field for Alice Jim Wells County. Wilbarger County spacing 660 330 feet. Texas Company dual completing George R Phillips No 1 in Chapel Hill Smith County. Clymore Co Inc authorized gas production and storage in Refugio County. A Oct 23 hearing in Austin on dual completion of Pyle and Springer No 1 in Palestine Long Lake Anderson County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Railroad Commission
South Cowden
Ector County
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company
E. F. Cowden
Alice
Jim Wells County
Ben Bolt
Bridwell Oil Company
H. H. Howell and Associates
Molberg
Cummings
Texas State Bank
White
Johnson
Wells Rock Crossing
Wilbarger County
Chapel Hill
Smith County
Texas Company
George R. Phillips
Mission River
Refugio County
Clymore Co., Inc
Pyle
Springer
Oil chief urges price rise to cover costs
Clifford Mooers, president of Shasta Oil, called for higher crude prices due to rising labor and materials costs. He warned that without the hike small operators would be forced to curtail activities at an early date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Clifford Mooers
Shasta Oil Company
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Oid
Art. Hughes
Philips Petroleum Company
Hassel Starks
Mr. Hughes
Mrs. Hughes
Haskel
Bartlesville
Panhandle Geological Society
Monument Lake
Elliott H. Powers
Gulf Oil Corporation
Earl Armstrong
Shamrock Oil & Gas Corporation
P. R. Smith
Southwestern Division
Pure Oil Company
Bill McSpadden
North Permian
West,Texas
Mr. Brown
Brown
Briscoe County
Phillips Petroleum Company
South Plains
Kleen
Devore and Slade
Swisher County
Tula
Section
Johnson Survey
Motley County
Sullivan and Hill & Hill
Hockley County
Anderson & Pritchard
N. D. Bartlett
Wheeler
Carson
Texwell Oil Corp
Texas Co
Saunders
Bs&f Survey
Sinclair Prairie
Dave Pope
Skelly Ol Co
W.H. Taylor
API Meeting
Shamrock Co
England
Italy
France
Price
Hutchinson Co
Carson Cities Service Oil Co
Burnett A
Timms-Fogerty
J. Brown
Bailey Broderick-Calvert
Amon G. Carter
Hayward
Center of Labor
Sutton County
U. S
Commission
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