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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1963
Page
12
In Tyler, court testimony detailed Eastman Mill Well Survey Co operations on the X-2 well under a Shell lease. Trials span multiple defendants over allegedly slanted wells and contraband oil transport, with seismic and tool tests showing deviations up to 34 degrees. Atlantic Refining reports further wildcat activity in Kent and Dawson counties with new discoveries and planned tests.
In Lea County New Mexico two wildcats and several undesignated locations were reported. Midland based Ainsworth and Hobbs interests announced No 1s at Caprock and Atlantic State No 1 in Malla mar area as 4200 and 1650 foot prospects with ties to Queen Sand and San Andres formations. Te xaco Midland plans drill No 5 M State of New Mexico 12 100 foot Wolfcamp near Mal lamar with tests showing oil flows and gas traces. Continental Oil Co announced No 8 B 1 Eaves Federal near Jal as a 6000 foot Eaves project with test results and core data.
An inventory style listing details multiple oil and gas locations, property units, and well data across Texas regions including Crane, Howard Glasscock, MIDLAND, ODESSA, WINKLER, KERMIT, and YOAKUM. It cites sections, townships, sizes in acres, and pipeline or road references with oilfield designations and owners or operators like Henderson & Lire, Dora Roberts, and Keystone-Colby Carter Foundation.
Sun Oil plans a 10 500 foot wildcat No 1 Houssels in Reeves County near Pecos testing lower Permian prospects. Ector Pan American completes Falken Area as third Fusselman oil well in northeast Ector County near Odessa with a 392 barrel daily potential. Pecos Mississippi River Fucts tops Bleakley State wildcat near Pecos with open hole completion after a 10 424 foot casing.
Garvin County Sheriff Tom Abney wrestled a revolver from Ed Whitaker 48 of Paoli, an ex convict wanted for a Kansas robbery, and took him to the county jail in Pauls Valley after subduing him outside a Paoli cafe.
In the basin area records, multiple wells such as Garza Gould No 1, Ellenburger DST prep, and Pan Am units show drilling status, sidetrack activity, and logs. Reports indicate lime, shale, dolomite, and other formations with depths ranging from about 1,000 to over 13,000 feet, including tests for San Andres and Bend DST preparations across North and South Basins, Pecos and Southeast New Mexico, and Lea County.
The text notes that Western cantaloupes descend from melons grown in Persia and nearby regions. It also mentions Egyptian records showing musk melons were known as early as 2400 B.C. The fragmentary source lists drilling and geological terms but centers on melon lineage.
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