Montana oil field listings and drill status summary
A compressed record of multiple oil and gas structures in Montana including Arch Apex-Parsell No 2 SW SE NW 436N35 drilling 1485 MonaCo Mackay No 1 C SW SW NE 202N-268 and Blue Dome area notes drifting and pumping. Entries cover structure names operators like Texaco Verploegen Linville Smith McCarter Bros and government notes with drilling dates and statuses such as spudded drilling pumping and shut down for winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OWL
Blue Dome Area
A. B
Zoole County
Linville & Smith-McCarter Bros
Parker
Mule Creek
Sonbeard
Madison
Sinclair-W Wilkins
C. Tarranty
Sweetgrass County
Rock Creek Beach
P. & A. Waxne
Nickerson-H. Miller
Whitlash Field
Nat
Gaihverson
Wolf ‘Creek
Arnold Smith-Anderson
Vast West Montana Oil Field Drilling Report Shows Multiple Wells Spudded
A multitude of wells across Flat Coulee, Porcupine Dome, Six Shooter, and surrounding regions report spudding dates from 1947 to 1950 era activity. Entries note operators such as Amick Drilling, Masser, Texaco Manion, and Grant Oil Co with targets in Madison, Meath, and Big Snowy groups. Production mentions include oil flow rates like 107 barrels per day and 200 barrels daily, with one well achieving 95 BOPD and others indicating significant drilling progress and water influx challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thien
Dalkota
Morrison
Hillis
Amsden
Madison
Ragged Point Texaco-Manion No
Big Snowy Group
Top Meath
Ibbey
New Success At Stanolind Sale Reveals Key Acreage
Opposing Stanolind at the sale was the British American Oil company which offered bonuses totaling 2640 dollars for 120 acres on the southwestern edge of the Stanolind block. The tract lies at the eastern central edge of township 31 north range 6 west. The northeastern corner of this township sits about two miles north of the Stanolind block where the southernmost producing area in the Out Bank field was drilled by A B Cobb. This is offset to the west by Orny Nole, with another dry hole drilled several years ago by Hannah Porter. These are the only wells drilled in this township. There is some evidence the Cut Bank sand swings abruptly to the…
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British-American Oil Company
Township
Out Bank
A. B. Cobb
Onry Nole
Hannah-Porter Company
Regional oil drill activity shifts in Montana fields
Oil firms like Stanolind Texaco and General Petroleum resume Montana work amid weather delays and testing. Texaco reports a 100 barrel daily well at Reagin in the Kevin Sundurst area, while a deep Verplotgen test near Signal Butte ends as a dry hole. Cloverleaf Petroleum moves into Devil’s Basin near Roundup, reworking the Van Dusen well and planning tests at Quadrant and Madison formations to push production.
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Havre
Signal Butte
Texach
Chateau
General Petroleum Corporation
Secony-Vacuum
Madison
Directes
Woodland strike may double field size and shift targets
Interest in exploration shifts away from the Leduc field as Woodbend No. 1 wildcat 244 miles northwest reports a strike. Operators and geologists discuss whether this indicates a minor extension of Leduc or the discovery of an entirely new field. Continued on Page 49.
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Leduc
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Montana
Montana Wildcats
Cillings Area
Cat Creek
Hanion
Benton-Gov't
Cherry Ridge
Burbridge Unruh
Texaco
Gevon Gas Area
Herbert D.hadley
Grand Ave
Billings
Mont
Cobb-Erickson
N. Wa Bank CO
Hardin
Marcus Snyder-Buzzeitt-Corking
Madison Tesb
Mosser Dome
Amick-Drilling
Amick Drilling
Kelly No
Amick-Kelly
Clark Drilling-Mosser No
Pondera Field
Cobo-Bricksen No
al Hopd
Ed Prevol-Koenig No
Obeim
Joslin C. Martin
Quigley Drilling Co-Dubois No
Triway-Dubeis
Wyoming
Cambrian
Kibbey
Texaco-Cotter
Rattlesnake Butte
Eas, Grant Oil Co
Chas, Woodworth
Linder No
South
Nickerson-Thompson No
T. D
Thorpe Fool
Sunburst OU Venture
Holbrook
Kevin-Sundurst
Cloverleaf CO
Devils Basin
The
Cloverleaf Petroleum Com
Grand Hotel
Cowboy Benny Anderson
EEMNY
Yellowstone Trades and Labor Assembly, A. F. of
Rotary
Gerald H. Anderson
Yellowstone Hotel
Laurel
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