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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1952
Page
19
Andrews County leads with five new field sites and Kent Gaines Yoakum each report four locations as prospecting activity expands in eastern New Mexico style notes. Detailing names such as Petrleaum Co. and Stout, tests target Pennsylvanian era formations with depths from 6,90 feet to 13,000 feet in multiple counties including Hockley Terry Kings.
J S Caffrey named Fleet Supervisor for The Western Company based in Midland. In his post he will assist the vice president in fleet policy development and supervise assignment and maintenance of company cars. Caffrey has served with The Western Company since 1946.
Numerous prospect wells slated in Lea County New Mexico including No. 1 Santa Fe Railroad at 12 500 feet to reach Devonian north central Lea 6 miles north of Tatum. McAlester 1-B7 wildcat 10 200 feet testing Pennsylvanian near Tatum. Infos cover Penrose Pipkin deepening to 7 000 feet and several Wolfcamp and Devonian tests in east and northwest Lea, with completions in Webb and Saunders fields and multiple plugged wells noted.
Garza County oil notes report multiple wildcat tests. No. 7 Leland F. Long by Vince Drilling Co. aims at 68 feet from north and East lines near Section 411 Tween Survey about 12 miles north of Post. Alworth 1 Woodard Wildcat No. 1 near South eastern Garza abandoned at 3030 feet in San Andres lime. Union 2-C Stoker Pumping tests at No. 2-C Stoker one mile north of Rocker A pool. 24 hour yield 7h 12 barrels. Continuous testing of open hole from 2450 to 2490 feet.
Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co announces new division offices in Lubbock Texas. McGuire, with 18 years at Halliburton, will supervise operations for New Mexico and six West Texas towns from rooms 616-619 of the Lubbock National Bank Building. Assisting are Muse of Midland and Logan of Odessa.
Stanolind Oil and Gas announces staffing of its district exploration department in Fort Worth. Personnel moved from Midland Amarillo and Odessa join under J. M. Reed and P. B. Abbey, including geologists Edward Clements Ralph Rovers William Newell Jr Robert Primo Marvin Shapiro and others. New landmen Jack Douglass and John Jones join from Midland and Fort Worth.
Strawn Prospector, under Fred W. Shield of San Antonio, has a farmout from Seaboard Oil Co. to drill an 8500 foot Strawn wildcat two miles east of the Mungerville Pennsylvanian pool in western Dawson County. Extensions staked to the discovery well and more tests planned near Lamesa, with No 1 Halliday State and No 2 Halliday State wells slated to test depths up to 19,700 and 8,700 feet respectively.
Dr Sam G Dunn of Lubbock stakes locations for tin field sites in the Means field area of north eastern Andrews County. The No 1A Fisher and No 7-A Fisher are described with exact line distances and sections. Continental O1 Ca University lands and various staking details are noted along with other test sites and depth figures. A Guatemalan arms ban is reported amid regional unrest. Brazil seeks a million tons of wheat due to Argentina shortfall.
An May West Texas magazine excerpt notes Lubbock as a major oil center with 70 plus oil company offices including Standard Oil of Texas and Stanolind. In 1952 the South Plains added 408 producing wells and 91,539 barrels per day, while ongoing field developments sustain a growing regional economy.
Shell Oil Company paid 2090 dollars per acre for an oil lease in Lea County and spent 8151,487.85 for a 6 2 acre tract in the Bagley pool. The sale of sixty one tracts brought the total to 181,721,478.14 the largest on record. The prior high was 1 ,005,267 from four years earlier. Shell’s 2000 per acre bid was well above recent rates.
Bartlesville Oklahoma, Okla hene 14 Special Genter Nalley, previously Midland field representative for Cities Service Oil Co., will transfer to Bartlesville to head field operations for the Crude Oil Purchases and Sales Department. Roberts, in Midland since July 1941, becomes department representative. An additional Midland staffer to be named later.
East Yoakum County Tennessee Production Co. completes No. 4.Z. F. Wright as a north offset to Prentice pool area. On potential test it pumped 317 barrels of 30 gravity oil with no water. Gas oil ratio 134 to 1. Pay section 5,942 to 5,967 feet. total depth plugged back. acidized with 3000 gallons. Seven inch casing at 5900 feet. Located 660 feet from north and east lines of Section 13 Black D. John H. Gibson Survey T miles northwest of Tokio.
Gasoline production in the United States exceeded one billion barrels in 1951, totaling 1,139,511,000 barrels and 47.86 billion gallons. It comprised 42 percent of all refined petroleum products, per the American Petroleum Institute statistics based on state tax and inspection returns.
Continental Oil Co reports final completion of No 1 M C Ross as a Caddo discovery in extreme southeastern King County. It yields 133 barrels of 31 degree oil and 37 barrels of water daily from acidized zones. Drilling progressed to 5515 feet with a test under way at the LouSamBob wildcat.
Oil and gas lease bonuses on about 39 000 acres netted 7 805 500 last week to raise the University of Texas permanent fund to 143 372 433 dollars. The fund mainly earns from royalties and lease bonuses, with about two million dollars of income used for operations in the current biennium.
Georgia Democrats plan to hand votes to Sen. Richard Russell on Monday as the state party votes a 72 member delegation pledged to support him for the presidential nomination. Gov. Herman Talmadge leads the Democratic executive committee seeking to preserve Georgia's future course if the national platform harms Southern interests. Six dead in Le Havre crash reported by authorities. A South African titanium firm looks to raise U.S. capital to develop deposits near Durban.
In Andrews and surrounding counties 26 new wells boosted area output with over 4,510 barrels of oil daily, plus water. Notable producers include Gulf Oil No. IT-LL Texas north extension and Humble Oil No. 3 Guetersloh in Terry County, while open holes were acidized or treated with water.
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