LEA TRY HITS WOLFCAMP OIL Pan Am Tests Penn In New Hope Unit
Pan American Petroleum plans a 9,200-foot wildcat at No. 1 South New Hope Unit in Roosevelt County New Mexico to test Pennsylvanian and upper Mississippian. Nearby wells report gas shows flow rates, while other outfits drill Crosby county and Nolan County prospects. Sixteen lines of drilling and multiple formations are noted with several potential prospects and re-entries in progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South New Hope
Roosevelt County
N. M
Pan American Petroleum Corp
Wolfcamp
Lea
Cabot Corp
Midland
Humble State
Lea County
Discovery
Caprock
Crosby
Humble Oil & Refining Co
O. W. English
Crosby County
Connelle Survey
Crosbyton
Summer Rig Count Decline Hits Permian Basin and South Plains
The June count shows a summer lull with Basin at 215 rigs and Plains at 129, plus New Mexico at 38. Last week totals were 239 Basin, 139 Plains, and 48 in New Mexico, with Basin and Plains near two year highs despite a year earlier peak. Lea County leads New Mexico with 26 rigs, Andrews County rises to second with 18, while Ector drops to third with 16. The weekly tally lists dozens of counties and their rig counts for July 13 and July 6, noting Basin totals of 179 and Plains totals of 139.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Plains
Plains
New Mexico
Basin
Lea County
N.M
Andrews County
Ector County
Crane
Dawson
Fisher
Gaines
Pecos
Reed Roller Bit Co
Andrews
Borden
Brewster
Chaves
Cochran
Crockett
Crosby
Eetor
Eddy
Garza
Hockley
Howard
Lea
Lynn
Martin
Menard
Midland
Mitchell
Nolan
Presidio
Reeves
Roosevelt
Runnels
Schleicher
Scurry
Sterling
Sutton
Terry
Terrell
Upton
Val Verde
Ward
Winkler
Yoakum
Weeacttia
Oil Color Controls Perception in Sales
Best motor oils, greases, and wax products are colored to meet consumer expectations, though color does not reflect quality. Sun Oil Co. notes many customers equate color with value, prompting its labs to study color and odor in products, including a weekly wax odor panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun Oil Co
Odor Important Sun
Rap On Wine Cask Led To Lung Study
Vienna report traces how Dr. J L Auen brugger, son of an Austrian innkeeper, learned in 1761 to rap a chest to outline the heart and assess lung health after noticing his father tapping wine casks to judge liquid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
J. L. Auenbrugger
Drilling Rig For Irish Wildcat To Be Shipped
A 1,600 ton drilling rig for Ambassador Irish Oil Co will depart Houston aboard Kendall Fish for Dublin as the first Irish wildcat. Loffland Brothers of Tulsa are the drilling contractor with the first well planned near Isaacstown Meath, about 25 miles NW of Dublin, in cooperation with Continental Oil Co and The Ohio Oil Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Ambassador Irish Oi Co
Ambassador
Oi Corporation of Fort Worth
Houston
Lykes Brothers Steamship Co
Kendall Fish
Dublin
Loffland Brothers of
Tulsa
County Meath
Isaacstown
Continental Oil Co
Ohio.Oil Co
IPAA Claims Oil Import Limit Amendment Lacks Effect
Tulsa special report quotes Minor S. Jameson Jr. of the Independent Petroleum Association of America arguing that an amendment to the Trade Expansion Act to curb oil imports would not block U S trade aims with Europe. He cites Europe’s dependence on Middle East oil and warns against increased imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
U.S
Minor S. Jameson, Jr
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Jameson
Middle East
Independent Petroleum Monthly
IPAA
Europe
Durand
State Dulles
Britain
Canal Zone
Gulf Coast
Congress
Max B. Skelton Houston
Oklahoma
Tom Steed
D-Okla
Kennedy
Steed
West Texas oil wells and completions list update
A dense field report lists Texaco, Humble, and other operators across Crane, Odessa, and surrounding Texas counties. It details well names, sections, elevations, throats, production figures, tar- pay, and formation data for numerous Wolfcamp Devonian and San Andres plays, with references to Odessa, Coahoma, Goldsmith, and Midland regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas
Wolfcamp
Texaco
State of Texas
FNL
Crousett
Clear Fork
W. Hobbs
H&tc Sur
McCamey
Humble
Lena Chiles Bell
Ct&mc Sur
Dune-Gulf
Harper
San Andres
T&p Sur
Odessa
Rt. Harper
San Andrea
Devonian & Montoya
Thomas
Goldsmith
Basin oil field notes with multiple drilling entries
Oil field report lists multiple wells in the NORTH BASIN and SOUTH BASIN areas with operators such as Atkins Ross Pan American Gibson and Vogler. Entries include Sec numbers Block designations drilling directions mud levels shale intervals and perforations with measured depths ranging from about 2 670 to 12 185 feet and references to salt water recovery and abandoned wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Basin Area
Kent
Aikman
Atkins
Bik. G
Wa&anw Gut
King — Ross
Lo Ross
A. J. B. Reefor Sur
Strawn Reef
Yoakum
Jones
Bik
Gibson Sur
Dawson
Hamon
Teaff
Y&p Sur
Pan American
Vogler
Lye Oh
Moore Csl Sur
Humble Oil Namesakes Turn Up Across United States
The Humble Oil & Refining Co lists over 39 000 workers with namesakes including Benjamin Franklin in Richmond Virginia Robert E Lee in Linden New Jersey John Kennedy as labor relations coordinator Stevenson at Enjay Chemical New York Andrew Jackson in Cleveland Texas and John Quincy Adams in Glendale Arizona Others include James Summer in Winters and Patricia Derrick in Corpus Christi. Barnum and Bailey names also appear in New York and Chicago with Emmett Humble of Dallas George Humble of Tyler and Omer Humble of Olympia Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Benjamin Franklin
Robert E. Lee
Andrew Jackson
Robert L. Stevenson
Humble Oil & Refining Co
John Quincy Adams
John Kennedy
Ben Franklin
Richmond
Bayway
Linden
N. J
Stevenson
Enjay Chemical Co
New York
Cleveland
Texas
Glendale
Ariz
James Summer
Winters
Patricia Derrick
Corpus Christi
Humble
Enjoy Chemical Co
Barnum and Bailey
Robert
Barnum
Bailey
Chicago
Ringling Bros
Emmett
Dallas
George
Tyler
Omer
Olympia
Wash
Dr Musgrave to Receive SEG Best Paper Honor
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists honors Dr Albert W Musgrave of Mobil Oil Dallas with its best paper award. He will accept at the 32nd international meeting in Calgary September 16 20 1962 for Wave Front Charts and Three Dimensional Migrations published in December 1962 Geophysics. He previously won in 1958 and is the first author to win twice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Albert W. Musgrave
Mobil Oil Co
Dallas
Musgrave
Calgary
Alberta
Geophysics
Society
Los Angeles
Mines Forecasts Demand Jump For Texas Oil
The Bureau for Mines projects Texas oil demand in August at 2.575 million barrels daily, up 15 000 from July. August purchases total 2.398 million barrels daily, up 31 621. Ten of twelve districts rise. District 6 East Texas falls 305 and District 10 Panhandle down 1 728.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Bureau For Mines
Texas
Railroad Commission
East Texas
Panhandle
Computers Find Oil and Maps in Oil Industry
Computers of many types aid oil firms in exploration, production, refining, and field operations. Texaco uses computing to correlate data on gasolines, cars, and drivers, while Gulf Oil linked a computer to an X ray to analyze rock samples. In Midland a consortium plans to store data on 19,000 Permian Basin wells, a project costing about $1 million over a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Kalb
Avalanche-Journal
Texaco, Inc
Pan American Petroleum Corp
Univac
Houston
Gulf Oil Corp
North Central
West Central
Texas
United States
Permian
Oil and gas drilling notes in New Mexico and Lea counties
Readable items describe drilling activity in Eddy and Lea counties New Mexico and nearby sectors. Entries note various wells with sec/township ranges, depths around 7 360 to 10 631 feet, operations such as perforating swabbing and spudding and entities including Indian Basin Trigg and Flying M. Continuous lines reference brine and shale while recording statuses like preparing to spud and fishing for packer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk
W&nw Sur
Shale
New Mexico
lTawe
Indian Basin
Trigg
Federal Unit
Lea
Bel State
Shell No
Royal
Trice
Flying M
Regional Crude Oil Totals by Texas Districts
Southwest Texas reports 148 barrels of No 2 oil and 1 421 barrels of No 3 while Gulf Coast records 2 393 barrels and East Central Texas 1 194 barrels. Other districts include South West Texas 8 152 No 5 East Central Texas 1 194 and West Central Texas 849 7 B 5 120. West Texas totals 7 335 and North Texas 4 576 in listed categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Texas
Gulf Coast
East Central Texas
Ast Texas Field
West Central Texas
West Texas
North Texas
Helium Conservation Push Aims at 1984 Reserve Goal
Federal plan to conserve helium targets 52 billion cubic feet in reserve by 1984. Major plants in Liberal Kansas and other sites will extract helium from Hugoton gas with government pipelines to storage near Amarillo. The push follows a 1957 act funding $47.5 million yearly to ensure supply for science and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Wilson Sharpe
Washington
UPI
White House
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Congress
Kansas-Texas-Oklahoma
Hugoton Field
Amarillo
Liberal
Kan
National Helium Corp
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co
National Distillers and Chemical Corp
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Kansas - Texas - Oklahoma
Hugoton
Panhandle
Cliffside
Multiple oil wildcats drill targets across Texas region
A slate of oil wells from Howard to Rankin shows wildcat drilling activity. Entries name operators such as Dwight M. Ross Drilling Co and Mitchell Shell Co, with wells in counties including Wichita, Ellis, Garza, Crane, Edwards, Glasscock, Reeves, Upton, and Rankin. Details cover well numbers, depths around 3,000 to 10,000 feet, and survey lines with sections and township ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight M. Ross Drilling Co
Wichita Falla
W. R. Ross
Wildcat
A. J. BR. Reetor
Sur
Guthrie
Ept
Enty
Ross Ranch Field
Bateman Ranch
Howard
Samedan OW Corp. Midland
G. T. Hall
Fs&wls
Forsan
Isecin
Yemile
Howard-Glasscock
Fld
Mitchell, Shell of Co
Abilene
Scott
Fsn&bbs
Coahoma
Enty. Pecos
Delfern OW Co
Lubbock
Seale
Cowdd
Fn&wls
Bik
H&gn
Garza
Earle M. Grate
Midland
G. W. Gindorf
D&se
Southland
Crane
George M. Bleatr
Waddell
Grandfalls
H&tc Sur
Edwards — Skelly Ol
Hal Peterson
Glasscock
Midwest
PSL Sur. Co
Rawlins
Water Valley
Upton
Southern Natural Gas Company
Clara E. Crume
Rankin
Fn&els
Mk&t Sur
Rare 1000-year-old Chilean bowl recovered in Hamburg station
A priceless 1,000-year-old Chilean bowl stolen from a museum was recovered in Hamburg's central rail station. Police say the thief apparently struggled to dispose of the artifact and left it in a public storage box at the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Germany
Wildcatters Find 27 New Fields
AUSTIN UPD Texas wildcatter operators found four oil and 23 gas wells in the past week per the Railroad Commission. Year to date totals show 236 oil wells and 625 gas wells, with 60 dry holes. Regular drillers added 199 oil and 68 gas completions this week. Districts reporting new oil or gas wells include Corpus Christi Abilene Midland Pampa Refugio San Antonio Houston and San Angelo. The state daily allowable as of July 14 was 2 722 035 barrels, up 234 from July 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
UPD
Texas Wildcat
Texas Railroad Commission
Wildcatter
Wildcatters
Corpus Chisti
Abilene
Midland
Pampa
Refugio
Corpus Christi
Houston
San Antonio
San Angelo
Food parcels sent from Hong Kong to Red China drop in 1962
Hong Kong residents sent three million food parcels to Red China in the second quarter of 1962, down 673000 from 1961. Officials attribute the decline to alleged Red Chinese import restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
China
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Pan Am
Penn
Strawn
James E. Kemp
J. W. Lynch
Ellenburger
North Faver
Nolan County
Sweetwater
T&p
Louis Franklin & Son
Abilene No
Alex Advan
European
Vail
Satan
East
Sunray
L. C. Denman
Sweetie Peck
Jane Sanders Trust
Warfield
Howard-Glaascock
Ohio Oil
Otis
Priest & Beavers (Queen
Great Plains Land Co
Owens State
TCRR
Bakersfield
Slaughter
Carrie Slaughter Dean
Lee
Lipscomb Csl
Dawson—Ackerly
Dean Sand
Crane—University Waddell
AH Univ
UL Sun
Yarbrough & Allen
Humbie
Grayburg
Barrow
Gray
Dev
PSL Sur
Elev Carsott
Bood
Wir
Grav
GOR
Garza—Kirkpatrick
Bs&w
Stinson
H&tesur
Hood
Sharon Ridge
Petroleum Producers, Inc
IPP
Yoakum—Wasson
Cornell Os Co
Whittenburg Estate
Pkr
Russell
PSL
Duff
G. Wtrr
Anderson
C State
Drig
Ataltawmita
South Basin Area
Reed
Dr. Musgrave
SEG
Lubbock, Texas
General Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assn
Wit
Sterd
Senate
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Helex Corp
Rushton
Northern Natural Gas Corp
Cities Service Helix
Ulysses
Cities Service Gas Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
Dumas
Guymon
Okla
Amman
Kuwait
Jordan
Red
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