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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 19, 1963

Page

2

Oil and gas activity report from the Midland region

Atlantic refining plans a potential test from the Ruby Cave wildcat in southeast Kent County near Rotan, with initial perforations producing 67 barrels of 41.4 gravity oil plus 0.5 percent BSP through a 24/64-inch choke in 15 hours. Yates gas strike near Seminole reports 2.5 million cubic feet daily from 3,422-423 feet, while Andrews County No. 129 University Embar field reports 481,000 cubic feet daily potential from Yates gas and 121 barrels of 39 gravity oil after acidizing and fracturing. An Outpost project in Dawson County involves a West Patricia field expansion drilled by Standard Oil Co. of Texas with three wells planned six miles west of Patricia.

Atlantic Refining Co Midland Kent County Ruby Cave Rotan Wolfcamp Noodle Creek Bay Atlantic H&tc Survey Yates Gaines E! Cinco Production Co Jones San Andres el Cinco Ccsd&rgng Seminole Gaines County Andrews L. R. French Jr Odessa University, Embar Andrews County Patricia Dawson County Dawson—Standard Oil Co Texas, Midland League Kent W. J. Clay Alty Spraberry

Pecos Clear Fork oil discovery and tests in Tubb area

BWP reports discovery oil in the upper Clear Fork at the Boys Ranch Tubb field in Pecos County. 44-inch casing set to 3,433 feet with a 1 1/2 hour DST surfacing gas. 1,500 feet oil, no water, final 30-minute shut in 1,444 psi. Tests on other intervals yielded mud with no shows. Six miles north of Girvin, near Section 91. Block 11. Crockett Forest Oil to rework Tippett area well in Crockett County near McCamey to test below 4,940 feet.

Midland Atlantic Fee Boys Ranch Pecos County Discovery Oil Clear Fork H&gn Girvin Crockett — Forest Oil Corp J. A. Tippett Tippett Crockett County McCamey Lone Leonard Leonard J. H. Tippett North Basin Area Hockley Greathouse Pierce & Davis Bean McCullock Csl Sur Terry—Cities Service Lindssley El&rr Sur Yoakum Sinclair Vann Gibson Sur Burke-Fitzgerald San Andres Central Basin Area Andrews Pan Am Uni Fereste UL Sur Drig G&mmb&a Sur Dawson—Knox T&p Sur Gaines ODC Bik WTRR Bass Mobil Atlantic Ccsd&rgng Sur Amerada A Matthews Big Wtrr Sur Humble Kendrick Sec PSL Martin Husky Lester Ime Stoltz Hays H&tc Sur Eastern Basin Fisher—Lake Dix New Mexico Chaves O'Brien Eddy—Humble Huapache Lowe Indian Basin Inman Canero Lea—Sinclair Cactus Elliott Federal Mathis GA_Sun-Federal Felmont Felmont State Texas Pacific AD State Lynch Barnes Lowe No Gulf N.M Anderson Shell Shell Federal Emerald Marathon McCallister South Basin Area Bell & Cansfiell Mildwest-McCamey Waddell Crockett Wolfcamp Clities Service Shannon Rik El&arr Sur ECTOR Fasken G&mumbea Sur Blair & Price Moss Ellenburger Midwest Sur Blair & French Parker PECOS Texaco Perry TCAR Walker Tyrell GC &Sf Sur Reagan Sugg Schleicher— Sunray Little Page Gc&sf Terrell Stanford of Texas Bassett TCRR Mobil No Mitchell Gc&sf Sur UPTON Stevenson Ward — Gulf Edwards Norsworthy Tennecno Sealy Smith A. Gammb&a West Delaware Roosevelt N. M Ashman Gas& Hilliard No. 5 Ltd Lee-Carter Ranian Long

Remembering Anything to Gain Poise and Influence

A Chicago publisher promotes a memory method claiming it boosts self confidence and social effectiveness. The ad offers a free book Adventures in Memory mailed to memory studies at 835 Diversey Parkway Dept 4072 Chicago 14 Ill. Postcard request only.

Chicago Diversey Parkway Dept. 4072 Ill

Locations And Completions In West Texas Oil Fields

A dense OCR list details multiple wells in West Texas including Crane Atapeo, Gaines-Seminole, Garza Rocker, Howard-Glasscock, Martin-Spraberry, Andrews Fullerton, Ector-N/TXL, Lawson, Harper, and Mesa units. Entries specify operators, sections, blocks, sur, depths, production rates, and completions across Crane, Gaines, Garza, Howard, Andrews, and Ector counties with figures like 2,342 FNL, 3,000 ft, 1500 ct, and IPF values.

West Texas CRANE Southland Royalty Co Wirt Davis H&tc Sur Imperial Gaines Seminole Humble O&r Co J. F.grayum Fn&wls G. Wirr GARZA R.S. Anderson Skelly- Stoker H&tc Justiceburg Glor, & Cirk Howard—Howard-Glasscock Marathon Oil Company SWD Kloh T&p Andrews—Fullerton Owwo Humble Fullerton Fn&els UL Sur T/Pay Pan American No AQ University TD Ord D&a Waddell Phillips No. 2 Alma T&p Sur Lawson Taylor & Espy John T. Cross P Sur Harper (Connell Blair & Price No Mesa Tap Sur

Oil well records span across basins with drilling activity

The report lists numerous wells in multiple basins including NORTH BASIN and CENTRAL BASIN with operators such as GREATHOUSE, PIERCE & DAVIS, TERRY, YOAKUM, and PAN AM. Entries detail sec/township ranges, drilling progress, casing, lime and sand use, and test statuses with depths, mud recovery, and occasional oil shows.

Oil Wells to Drill Ellenburger Test in Nolan County

Nolan and Fisher counties see two wildcat drilling plans. Perkins Prothro Co of Wichita Falls will drill the No. 1 S. Y. Dennis to 6800 feet to test the Ellenburger formation one mile north of Nolan in Section 43, Block 5, T&P survey, 144 miles east of the Hard Rock field. Eu gene M. Goltz and S. R. Fletcher of Abilene plan No. 1 J. M. Davenport in western Fisher County to 4200 feet at Noodle i Creek wildcat, four miles west of Claytonville, near Rotan in Section 131, Block 3, H&TC survey.

Oil reserves cited as 18.6 billion barrels in Texas

Texas holds 18.6 billion barrels of oil reserves with 14.8 billion in crude oil and 3.8 billion from natural gas liquids. The report lists several wildcat drillings in Pecos and Runnels counties including Caprock Girvin and Rowena developments with depths around 4.5 to 11.8 thousand feet.

Texas

Yates Petroleum probes wildcat re-entry near Red Mojarr

In Eddy County New Mexico Yates Petroleum Corp proposes a wildcat re-entry at No 1 Con west lines of Section 20 25s 30e about nine miles south of Maliamar Corral Canyon and one mile south eight miles north northeast of Red Mojarr The original 1961 hole reached 14905 feet by Ralph Lowe Midland plan is to clean out to 4900 feet set surface and complete as discovery Location 660 feet north and 1980 feet west of section 24 18s 32e 1 1/2 miles east of South Mojarr field Additional tests at Roosevelt and Delaware sands underway with multiple drill sites and test depths described.

Yates Petroleum Corp Arteis Yates Ralph Lowe Midland

Dr Guilds Green Mountain Cigarettes Compound Claim

An advertisement claims acute asthma attacks are rapidly relieved by Dr Guild's Green Mountain Cigarettes or Compound with no prescription, no drugs, and no injections. It promises immediate breathing improvement and urges readers to ask their druggist.

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