11 Mar 1948
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Newspaper
Billings Herald
Location
Billings, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1948
Page
1
A dense schematic of oil wells, drillers, and field notes across Montana and surrounding areas. Entries list structures, search codes, statuses like spudded, drilling, or shut down for winter, with operators such as Midwest Driling Co, Richfield-Wiess, and Texaco, plus locations including Flat Coulee and Dry Creek Field. Names, numbers, and dates appear in rapid sequence, reflecting a period-typical field ledger.
The record lists multiple oil and gas wells in Swellgrass County and surrounding regions. It notes spudding dates in 1947 and 1948, drilling statuses, coring figures, and references to formations like shale and silphur. Named entities include Grant Oil Co, Chas Woodworth, Nickerson Miller, Arnold Smaith Anduderson, and Wayne Creek structures. The report outlines testing, drilling, and idle wells across the Shawmut Anticline and Wolf Creek areas with multiple section-township-range coordinates.
A compact summary of scattered oil and gas well listings across Wyoming and surrounding counties, including Campbell, Niobrara, Park, Converse, and Albany. Entries reference unit numbers, sections, drilling statuses, test flows, locations, and operators like Texaco, Snowden, BADGER BASIN, and Standolind units, with dates and locations implied by section-township-range data.
The record lists drilling and spudded activity in many fields including Big Sandy Carbon Countyy, Canyon Creek, Church Butte, Circle Ridge, Crystal Creek, East Warm Springs, South Oregon Basin, South Sand Draw, Steamboat Butte, Elk Basin, and Elk Basin tests. It cites multiple company names such as Mountain Fuel Supply, Continental Tribal, Sand Daw Oil Co, Widwater Associated, British-American, Carter-Johnson-Watson, Continental Goodsidhy, and others with well numbers, locations, and statuses like spudded or drilling numbers across Wyoming, Montana, and surrounding counties.
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