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Newspaper

Billings Herald

Location

Billings, Montana, United States of America

Date

Nov 06, 1947

Page

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Vast Oil Field Entries and Drilling Notes Across Counties

An OCR list details numerous oil and gas structures and drilling actions in multiple fields and counties. Entries include spudding dates, casing, drilling progress, tool usage, and depths for sites such as RAMNATYNE FIELD, CARBON COUNTY, CASSADY STRUCTURE, COTTONWOOD STRUCTURE, ELK BASIN AREA, DRY CREEK FIELD, and JOPLIN AREA, with companies like Midwest Drilling Co, Texaco-Verpleegen, and Seaboard.

Cottonwood Texaco-Verpleegen No Clark’s Fork Seaboard 3 CO. Peters No

Oil field drilling updates from multiple US locations

A compilation of drilling activity and well spuds across several fields including Spudded dates in 1947, gas shows, completions and depths. Notable mentions include Preval Koenig No 1o, Ragged Point Texaco Minion No 1, Reagan Nose Union-Tribal No 5, and Six Shooter Area locations with gas indications and pipe set notes.

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TexacoLaas No. 2- C NW NE SW 14.33N-4 TD drilling

Oil well operations update with depth figures and plugging notes. WITTLASH FIELD reports spudding dates in 1947 for Wolf Creek Area and Arnold Smith Anderson well. No results reported for TexacoLaas No. 2 and Western Nat. Gas Iverson No. 4.

Medison Midway Area Stephens Pet Vermulay No. I Mosser Amick-Drilling Mosser No Amick Drilling Amick Kelly Utopia TexacoLaas Wittlash Western Nat

More Oil for America Delivers Rising Cost Insight

The industry is praised for efforts to curb consumer prices amid sharp rises in building and development costs. It notes insufficient funds to replace worn equipment, citing a 10,000 barrel per day refinery example where costs grew from 500 to about 1500 per barrel of capacity. The piece suggests peak costs may not be reached. It also highlights rising expenses in finding and drilling as part of expansion.

Rise in oil costs trims wartime price hikes

Prices for all products rose only moderately, staying well below oil input costs. Retail increases have supported the expansion of service stations and improved quality, while crude supplies reach the market to meet surging wartime demand.

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