21 Aug 1947
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Newspaper
Billings Herald
Location
Billings, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1947
Page
1
Montana oil field entries list spudded dates from 1946 to 1948 across multiple structures and counties. It records well names, locations by section and township, drilling activity, cementing stages, and shallow to deep depths, with notes on perforation, testing, and water shutoffs for fields including BANNATYNE, BEARS, CARBON, CASSADY, and CHERRY RIDGE among others.
Readable records show numerous drilling, spudding, and testing actions across fields in Wyoming and adjacent jurisdictions. Entries mention operators like Hawley Erickson, Koenig, Linville Smith Mec Carter, Amick Drilling Mosser, Texaco Manion, and others with locations such as Pondera, Devils Basin, Mission Creek, Ragged Point, and Treasure County. Several wells report spudding dates, drilling progress, oil or gas shows, water production, and tests with varying production metrics.
Notices show multiple land filings by John Snyder and Tom Snyder across Great Falls and surrounding counties near the Alberta border. Locations include NW NE in section 13, various lots in sections 9 and 10, and E NE Sec 17 with N SE Sec 18, near Sherrard dome and Chester. Adjacent to shallow gas wells, near Texaco and Union Oil activity.
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