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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1963
Page
5
Texaco Midland reports the Loving Fee No 1-V as a small Delaware discovery producing five barrels of 39 gravity oil per day with high water content after acidizing and fracturing. Other wells include a 6,000 foot Bone Spring wildcat in Culberson County and multiple tests in Winkler Reeves Ector and Ward counties with varying depths and test results.
A dense roll of oil and gas lease names, tract descriptions, survey references, and well data across Andrews, Gaines, Seminole, Garden City, Denver City and nearby areas. Entries include operator names such as Cities Service, Humble, Texaco, Pan American, Sinclair, and Gulf, with coordinates, sections, and depths.
El Cinco Production Co and Midland will attempt a confirmation No 1 G E H Jones to a recent San Andres discovery in northwest Gaines County about 12 miles northwest of Seminole The 5700 foot venture is 14 miles southeast of Falken No 2 D Jones and 1980 feet from Section 1376 north and west lines of CCSD RGNG survey Tests at Ellenburger by Andrews Socony Mobil Oil Co No 12 BA Falken Block show 13206 16 feet deep swabbing 14 barrels oil and 172 barrels salt water Spraberry perforations 9235 58 feet yielded 30 barrels oil 367 barrels salt water and 244 barrels mud in 24 hours The test location is 467 feet from Section 21 Block 40 T P survey southeast of Andrews Terry Cities Service Oil Co Midland shifts its No 1 B Lindsley offset to Mound Lake Fuselman field in northeast Terry County 10 miles E N E of Brownfield New offset places it 1980 feet north and 660 feet east of Section 48 making it 1 mile south of the pay opener with location and roads under construction.
Strawn southwest Stonewall County test reenters No 1 Strawn by Humphrey Jr to 5800 ft. nearby No 1 Eugene Barton wildcat in Run nel County. reentry of No 1 Cicero Smith in Runnels to 5121 ft. Dix wildcat in Hutchinson? Canyon shows gas and oil potential with a 600 ft gas rise and 120 ft oil gas cut mud. aiming to test Ellenburger and Canyon zones.
Oil crews report on numerous wells in the North and Central Basin areas with activity by Pan American, Humble, Sinclair, and others. Wells drill, cut and test as crews push to complete, rework or abandon sites, with production figures and drilling statuses noted for several locations.
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