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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 15, 1963

Page

2

Pool reopenings and Garza wells in Texas oil fields

The report details Raa pool reopening in southeast Kent County with No. 1 Ruby Cave at 4,140 to 4,160 feet showing initial oil and gas flow after acidizing and swabbing. Garza Pool reopens with four Glorieta wells on the Gordon lease near Post, showing varying daily oil outputs and water percentages. Continental Oil plans a 7,950-foot offset drill north of the South Wasson discovery in Gaines County near Denver City.

Atlantic!ee H&tc Garza Pool GARZA Sam.g. Dunn Lubbock Duffy Peak Garza County H&gn Post H. L. Gordon Gordon Section Discovery Offset Gaines Continental Oil Company Wasson Wichita-Albany Gaines County Denver City W. M. Moore PSL

Basin area drilling notes tape a heavy oil field summary

A long survey lists multiple oil wells across the Central, Eastern, South, and Western Basin areas in Texas and New Mexico with operators such as Sinclair, Pan American, Cities Service, Texaco, and Gulf. It covers well names, sections, drill depths, mud and lime usage, casing, perforations, and statuses including ongoing drilling, cementing, and plans to run liners or DSTs.

Fey Sinclair Vane le Maca Gibson Sur Delo- Larte Burke-Fitezerald Jime Central Basin Andrews Pan Am Universty Fee G&mmba&a Sur Drig Tomo — Ashmen & Hillerd T&p Sur Ittoe Dawson — Knox Mobil-Atlantic Ccsd&rgng Howard Texaco T&p Martin—Cities Service Nial Mitchell—Fan Am Barber Scurry Guil Criswell HATC Eastern Basin B Sur New Mexico EA ‘Chaves O'Brier Lowe Canero McAmister Bec Ste Pacific AD N.M. State Drig Ials Hoblusom Felmont Beco Ramses San Andres Hamoa Lynch Gulf N.M Bell & Cansfield Sodwest McCamey Crockett Shannon Elarr Sur Gamme&a Sur Elab & Price Moss Connell Blair & French Parker Hudspeth — Gulf PSL Sur

SPL Co Chief Named To UN Delegation

J L Burke president of Service Pipe Line Co Tulsa has been named a United States delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Nations in Geneva Switzerland February 4 to 20 He authored a technical paper on pipelining the only U S contribution on pipelining among 138 papers plus Burke attends the conference where about 2000 delegates from 80 nations gather at the Palais des Nations The conference aims to mobilize scientific and technical knowledge to aid less developed nations and was called by the U N Economic and Social Council in a resolution sponsored by five nations including the United States adopted August 3 1961

Washington, D.C J. L. Burke Service Pipe Line Co Tulsa United States Geneva Switzerland State Department Burke U.S United Nations Palais Des Nations U. N. Economic and Social

Completions Still Behind 1962 Pace

U S oil and gas firms completed 775 wells in the week ended Feb 9, up 11 from the prior week. Oklahoma led with 106 completions, Ohio 38, Kansas 45, Texas 270, and Louisiana 55. The total includes 388 crude producers and 105 gas producers, 44 service wells and 238 dry holes, with 131 wildcats. This year to date totals 4,873 wells versus 5,144 a year ago.

Tulsa U.S. Oil and Gas Companies Oil and Gas Journal Oklahoma Ohio Kansas Texas Louisiana U.S

San Andres finds propel multiple oil tests in Texas New Mexico fields

In Crane County and Midland Texas and Chaves New Mexico wells report San Andres and Strawn oil in multi pay zones. The Waddell No 1 confirms 6 barrels per day plus water flow after acidizing, the Hale No 9 B T yields 127 barrels of 45.2 gravity oil with gas distillate, and Button Mesa plans to reexpand San Andres production. Slated test wells include Union Oil No 1-17 State in Lea County and Marathon State in Lea County while Olen F Feath erstone completes No 1 Federal Honda in Windmill San Andres pool.

Crane County Midland San Andres Dell Field Grandfalls H&tc Midland — Texaco, Inc Midland County Strawn Oil Discovery Texaco Hale Strawn Azalea William Gleneaigh New Mexico Lea County Union Oil Co California Wolfcamp Austin Tatum Chaves N. M Bell Petroleum Co Mesa Chaves County Caprock N.M Olen F. Featherstone Roswell Federal Honda Artesia

Conoco Reports First Ever One Billion Dollar Sales

Continental Oil Co. recorded gross sales above 1 billion dollars for 1962, a historic first. President L. F. McCollum of Houston spoke at the New York Society of Security Analysts detailing a growth and diversification program aimed at expanding geographically to boost profits amid global competition. He cited investments in Libya, Canada, and Mexico as significant results of the plan.

New York Special Continental Oil Co L. F. McCollum Houston New York Society of Security Analysts McCollum Continental United States Libya Canada Mexico

RRC Sets Salt Water Injection Hearings

The Railroad Commission will consider March 14 the salt water injection application of C. L. Echols Production Co. for wells in Sharon Ridge Fields Mitchell and Scurry Counties. The proposal seeks permits to inject salt water into four wells across the C. C. Mills B Lease, Hardee Lease, J. L. Strain Lease, and Caroline G. Crawford Lease with depths listed. Hearing at 9 a.m. in Austin.

Caroline G. Crawford Commission Austin

Cities Service Reports Best Safety Year Despite Years Of Progress

Cities Service Oil Co reports its best safety year in 32 years for 1962 with a disabling injury rate of 2.80 per million man hours. The figure marks a 92 percent drop since 1930 when the safety system began and beats last year’s record by 30 percent.

Cities Service Oil Co

Locations And Completions In New Mexico Texas Oil Districts

A saturated list of oil well locations and completions across Andrews Howard Loving Midland Pecos Ward Winkler and more. It documents No 1 Pan American University No 7 Evans No 6 Tay lor and various company names including Texaco Gulf and Cities Service with detail on Secs 7-11 and ranges 1-N to 9-S across Eunice Jal Odessa Andrews and Milnesand.

T&p Sur H&gn Ellenburger Bassett TCRR Sur Mubil Mitchell A WU Cced&rgng Our Tom Green Pss Am CSL Sur Texas Pacific Barnett Aie Ward—Gulf Fawares PSL Sur Notsworthy Y&a Norsworthy D Edwards PSL Winkler—Greathouse Pierce & Davis Sealy Smith G&mmbaa Sur Roswell Vivian Eunice Moran O&g Shell Oil Co Midland Lion C- Rod-Ric Drig Roosevelt Milnesand San Andres BTA Oil Taylor Fn&wls Andrews Hutex Devy Williamson Pet. Co Pan American University UL Sur E-Andrews Texaco Inc Psnen Goldsmith Howard Tone Elmar Dela Nentone Dora Roberts Dev Cities Service Oil Co Dora Roberts Ranch A Sur Se-Odessa Fs&eli T&ap Vatcheli E. Tatan Howard M. L. Melton T&p Yates Smith Land J. L. Reese John Sumrall S Douglas Oceee Sur Iraan WARD Quito Dela — Hissom Drig. Co Craft Thompson Cynthia Monroe W&nw Sur N-Barstow Hailey Queen Case O&g Co Sealy & Smith Bait FWL G&mmb&a N-Monahans Oakum Ne-Wasson Texas Pacific C&o Co Ruth Bennett J. H. Gibson Sur Se-Plains Oil Corp Mollie Grooms, Et al Ember Crane—University Waddell W. N. Waddell FEI Dane (Sa R. H. Siegfried, Inc Everit & Glass Barrow Ellenbureer Texa Inc W. Ratliff Forest Oil Corp U B. H. Blakeney Wolfcamp Humble Noland Park H D&W_ Bureley Igr J. B. Walton Ise Wasson — Pan Am Sadie O'Dowd

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