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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1968
Page
18
The National Petroleum Council reports postwar tech and methods such as fracturing increasing oil in place and reserves. From 1945 to 1965 recovery rose from 26 to 36 percent, with 7.3 billion barrels added by new tech, and annual gains projected through 1980.
Chicago special report notes LP gas sales rose 3.9 percent in 1967 to a record 14.4 billion gallons, led by residential and commercial use. Production reached 18.2 billion gallons, with gains across major markets. NLPGA represents producers, dealers, manufacturers, and transport firms.
The American Petroleum Institute reports total crude runs averaged 9.89 million barrels daily for the week ended January 12, down from 10.00 million the prior week and 9.63 million a year ago. Gasoline output totaled 35.92 million barrels, up from 27.77 million the prior week and 34.86 million a year ago. East of California crude stocks fell by 915 thousand barrels. foreign crude declined by 429 thousand.
Oil and gas well completions lag behind year earlier figures in Texas. Railroad Commission reports show 300 oil and 110 gas wells drilled in the first three weeks, vs 285 oil and 186 gas by this time in 1967. Seventy six oil and 22 gas wells drilled last week with six oil and four wildcat wells.
The New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission set Southeast New Mexico February production at 58 barrels, up two from January. The northwestern unit allowance remained at 70 barrels per day. Industry spokesman Dr. Heilpre vite, president of Permian Corp., Midland, Kleine, commented at the OCC meeting.
In Dallas special report, the Oil Information Committee of Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association lists top worries for oil and economy. Terry Rice cites Viet Nam war urban crisis and economy as drivers while noting 31 depletion bills and hearings ahead. Simons urges highlighting the industry's air water conservation efforts amid fiscal and policy debates. Abington links city sales tax votes to legislative tax strategy.
The Trans-Pecos Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers will hold a one day symposium March 28 at Monahans High School Auditorium. The program covers Delaware Basin ultra deep gas wells drilling and development including geology rig needs drilling programs well control tubulars cementing logging perforating and market potential with industry personnel presenting.
A varied program on gas processing kicks off Feb 15 at the Robert Driscoll Hotel Corpus Christi. Dr. John J. McKetta Jr. UT Austin will discuss The Future of Engineering with NGPA VP Joe Wright hosting.
OCR fragments reference abandoned locations near Colorado City and Nolan area. Mentions to wildcat sites, outposts in Bee and Kilgore regions, and several scattered facility notes with distances and names such as Richard Leennle and Joan ran ideats. The text is fragmented and lacks coherent narrative.
American actress Sharon Tate wed Polish film director Roman Polanski at the Chelsea register office. Tate wore a green silk minidress and Mow hair pins. Polanski wore a green regen cy style suit. The couple planned a week in England before a California honeymoon.
A fragmented clipping recalls a Soviet farm named after Napoleon Bonaparte with ironic, satirical lines about leadership and peasant labor. The snippet hints at enduring mythmaking in the collective farm system and public memories of empire.
The encyclopedia notes oil dominates the world energy mix at 41 percent in 1966 with coal 37 percent and gas 16 percent. It predicts oil will grow slowly while natural gas expands, coal declines, and nuclear power remains under 2 percent of the world market within a decade.
The weekly survey of active rotary rigs shows 153 units drilling in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, up from 134 last week. Pecos and Ward regions lead with 20 and 9 rigs respectively, while Ector and Upton show gains as totals for two weeks are listed with multiple counties named.
Pan American Petroleum Corp named Patrick E. Hosford area engineer for the Odessa arcs transferring from Tulsa to fill the post. He replaces T. H. Franklin who moves to Fort Worth. Hosford began as a junior engineer in 1958 and has worked in Odessa Lubbock Fort Worth and Tulsa. He is a 1954 Will Rogers High School graduate and holds a B S in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Members of the fourth annual School of Gas Processing report completion of plans for the three day event to be held February 7 to 9 on the University of Southwestern Louisiana campus. Speakers have been confirmed to present papers. Co sponsored by USL and the South Louisiana chapter of the National Gas Processors Association. The school aims to provide technical instruction on operational and engineering aspects for industry professionals.
Robert H. Quenon has been named manager of mine operations for Humble Oil and Refining Co. The company disclosed its recent acquisition of several hundred thousand acres of coal lands. Quenon, from Fairmont West Virginia, holds a mining engineering degree from West Virginia University and a law degree from George Washington University. He served with the U.S. Army engineers in 1946 to 1947. He previously led deep mines for Clinchfield Coal in Dante Virginia and was mine superintendent for Consolidation Coal in Fairmont. He is past president of the Northern West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and serves on the Interior Department advisory panel and other national committees.
Cranbury New Jersey Cities Service Oil announces a Natural Gas Liquids Research Department within its Product and Process Research Division. Milton C. Baxter will lead the unit at Princeton Research Center, with George W. Leck I as section supervisor. Baxter holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and has led prior division roles. Leck I holds degrees from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and Newark College of Engineering and has worked at Cities Service since 1961.
Windham II receives designation in Denver City special coverage with limited readable details about the selection and context from the report.
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