Prospectors Schedule Three Wildcat Drills in Southeast New Mexico
Operators plan multiple wildcat and Devonian tests across Lea and Eddy counties in Southeast New Mexico. Rowan Oil No 1 N B Bunin targets 7 500 ft bottom in Section 18 21s 38e Central East Sea, while Cities Service No 1 AM State in Section 3 14s 32e Lea County aims for Pennsylvanian tests three and one half miles northeast of North Tul k field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobbs
New Mexico
Rowan Oil Company No
N. B. Bunin
Central-East Sea
Cities Service Oil Company
Lea County
North Tulk
D. B. Scully
Eddy County
Superior Oil Company
Superior State
Malaga
Delaware
Amerada Petroleum Corporation
Bronco
Ward
Amerada No. 1 Federal
Denton
Glonola
Lea
Matrolia Petroleum Company
T. Pope
Magnolia No
T. D. Pope
Sinclair Oil & Gas Company
John Shultz
Gladiola Fi
Shell Oil Company No
Echols
Lia County
Wolfcamp Haseen
Continental Oil Company
Anderson Ranch
West
Roswell
Velma Petroleum Corporation
Carlsbad
Stanolind Oil & Gas Company
Gulf Oil Corporation
Guadalupe Foothills
Ellenburger
Accounting Manual Published By API
The American Petroleum Institute announces a new simplified accounting manual for oil marketers. Prepared over two years by the Institute’s financial committee, it aids distributors and jobbers without professional accountants. The guide covers assets and liabilities with explanations and sample balance sheets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Petroleum Institute
Institute
Texas Oil Industry Sees Slower 1952 Drilling Pace
In Austin on July 18 Railroad Commissioner William Murray warns Texas oil drilling lags behind 1951 with 5 367 wells completed this year, about 400 fewer. He says a persistent lag could threaten national security if war increases oil demand, urging education of oilmen and the public on reserve capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mac Roy Rasor Austin
Texas
Wiliam Murray
Commission
Murray
Lubbock Desk & Derrick Club Selects Delegate for Denver Meet
Mrs. Martha Shelton an intermediate clerk in the Stanolind Oil Land Department is chosen as the official delegate of the Lubbock Desk and Derrick Club to the second annual convention of the Desk and Derrick Clubs of North America in Denver September 11 and 12. Bernard L. Majewski Great American Oil Co. will speak at the main banquet on September 12. The gathering is expected to draw about 1200 oil women from 47 clubs in the U S and Canada with 1600 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Shelton
Land Department
Stanolind Oil & Gas Co
Lubbock Desk & Derrick Club
Association of Desk & Derrick Clubs of North America
Denver
Great American Oil Co
Deep Rock Oil Corp
Desk & Derrick Club
Majewski
Independent Petroleum Association of America
National Petroleum Council
Margaret Neff. Jackson
Miss Neff
United States
Canada
Mile High City
U.S
N. E. Tanner
Merrill Petroleums, Ltd
Calgary
Alberta
Lee Wilson Hoover
Orleans
Crude Gals Run Seismograph Drill Bit Firm in Lubbock
Thelma Smith, secretary treasurer and office manager at A. D. Appleby Industries, and her husband Milton M. own the Nu Way drill bit business and M M Welding Works in Lubbock. She is a Paducah native, taught geography, and has been a Desk and Derrick director, with the couple running the factory for over a decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Smith
58Th Place
A. D. Appleby Industries
15Th Street
Sne 1
Milton M
M M Welding Works
Paducah
Mrs. Smith
Hamlin
West Texas State Teachers College
Canyon
Sam Houston Marines Leave for San Diego Boot Camp
About 218 youths from Houston Oregon depart Friday to begin Marine Corps basic training in San Diego. They travel together as members of the Sam Houston Marine Camp and will stay as a unit through boot camp.
First Price Hike in Over Five Years Justified IPAA Says
IPAA president argues crude oil price rise, the first in more than five years, is deserved as costs to find and produce oil have risen. He cites steel and labor price increases, deeper wells, and a must drill 55 000 wells in 1953 to meet national demand, with only 1 percent of US petroleum lands developed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Locations on South Plains and Andrews County
Property descriptions detail new oil lease areas around Andrews and Cochran counties with references to Fasken, University Lands, and Texas Company. The text lists survey blocks, distances from section lines, rotary measurements, and nearby towns. It also notes a descriptive oil industry manual from the American Petroleum Institute with pricing for multiple copies.
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Andrews County
Mater
David & Inez G. Fasken
Mumbea
Andrews
Rotary
David
Ignolulu OU Corp
J. E Barker
Block ‘Ab. Psl
Irs
Eilenburger
Phillins Nieum Ca
Texas University
University’ Lands Survey
Byener
Shatter Lake
Yates
H. Bevan Potts University
Univer. Bis Lands Survey
Permian Basin Activity Survey Summary Data
The table provides an operation summary by counties of oil industry activity in the Permian Basin as compiled weekly by Rinehart's Oil Reports in Midland, covering the survey ending on Wednesday. It presents the latest figures for West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Permian Basin
West Texas
New Mexico
Midland
Rinehart
0 Cal Opens Egypt Office
Southern California Petroleum Corp. completes transport arrangements for key American personnel to head departments in its Egyptian operation for International Egyptian Oil Co. Scott A. Murray in Cairo for three months after transfer from Midland. Frank Lewis moves to Cairo to head geology. Earl Miner to join R. L. Brewer in the Suez area at month end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern California Petroleum Corp
International Egyptian Oil Co
Scott A. Murray
Cairo
So-Cal
Midland
Frank Lewis
Earl Miner
Saddler ‘Drilling Co
Texas
New Mexico
R. L. Brewer
Suez
Oil field drilling records report extensive completions and acidizing
The report lists multiple county oil completions across Howard and Scurry counties, detailing sections, blocks, survey crews, oil gravity, water content, perforation depths, and acidizing volumes. It ends with a brief death note: L A Dunagan, 58, TCU assistant business manager, died of a heart attack in Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TCU
Fort Worth
L. A. Dunagan
Oil unions see 4 per cent wage rise as pattern for year
CIO oil unions say the 4 per cent rise won in talks with Socony Vacuum Standard of New Jersey and others will set the pattern for 1953 contracts. Wages average nine cents an hour rise across oil field work pipeline transport and refining to about 2.25 dollars. The United Mine Workers attack oil price hikes as profiteering amid claims labor costs are low in oil fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Adams Washington
CIO
Socony- Vacuum
Standard of New Jersey
CIO Steel
Auto
B. J. Schafer
Oil Workers
Steel and
Steel
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
United Mine Workers Journal
Educational Plan Instigated By API Subcommittee
A special API subcommittee in the marketing division is studying the advisability of API cooperation to develop management institutes for distributors and jobbers. J. E. Dyer chairs the Jobber Advisory Committee. Robert A. Kent chairs the subcommittee with members from Kent Oil Co and other industry groups. A summary notes two prior management institutes at Texas and Georgia were highly successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Division of Marketing
American Petroleum Institute
J. E. Dyer
Jobber Advisory Committee
Novemer
Robert A. Kent
Kent Oil Co
Salina
Kansas
E. K. Bennett
Cumberland Oil. Co
Nashville, Tenn
M. D. DeTar
Aero Oil Co
New Oxford
Jess Knowies
Skelly Oil Co
Kansas City
E. F. McCabe
Tide Water Associated Oil _Co
New York
M. H. Robineau
Frontier Refining Co
Denver
Colo
George L. Savory
Savory Oil Co
Binghamton
Dyer
Dallas
A. P.I
L. T. White
Cities Service Oil Co
White
University of Texas
University of Georgia
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Mercury
Earth
South Plains
George T, Prigmore
API
Lubbock Desk & Derrick Association
Mrs
San Diego
IPAA
Chariton H
Borden County Reinewke—Dialyn Drilling ‘Co
Em, Robinson
H&tc
Cochran County Slaughter—Standard Oi) & Gas Co
S.dean
Mills Csl
Whiteface
Slaughter—Stanclind Oil & Gas Co
Dean
Satur
League
Mills Csl Sure F
Totary Trs
American Petroleum_Institute
West 50Th Street
Armd Lace
WC Field
Borden
Brewster
Cochran
Cottle
Crane
Crockett
Crosby Culberson
Dawson Dickens
Ector
el Paso
Floyd Gaines Garza
Glasscock
Hale Hockley Howard
Hudspeth Trion
Jeff Davis
Kent
King
Lamb
Loving Lubbock Lynn
Martin Midland
Mitchell Pecos
Presidio
Concho
Cal
Egypt
Westlund
Upper Clear Fork
Carl J. Westlund
Sherrod
Novi
Weet
Block AZ Psl
Surver
Sweed
Peeforn
Howard County
Luther Canyon
Pan American Production Co . Co
Continental Oil Co
Scurry County
Humble O11 & Refining'Ch
Herman Gartner
Sharon
Delta Oil Co
Golsmith
H&tc Survey
Yorrcm County Bromco
Desonian
Amerada Petroleum
Black Dohn H. Glnron
Survex
Adearavissil
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