Athabasca Oil Sands Pilot Project Expands Ventures
Four companies Cities Service Athabasca Imperial Richfield and Royalite jointly run a $3.5 million pilot in northern Alberta mining for oil from oil sands. The plant processes 3000 barrels daily of Bitumen-Diluent with plans to scale as feasibility grows, underscoring tech ingenuity amid shrinking conventional reserves.
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Canada
Athabasca
Alberta
Cities Service Athabasca, Inc
Cities Service Co
Imperial Oil, Ltd
Richfield Oil Corp
Los Angeles
Royalite Oil Co., Ltd
Cities Service
Imperial and
Richfield
Royalite
Conglomerate Find Gauged In Stonewall County Oil Pool
American Petrofina Co. of Texa s reports a No 1 Tatum and others discovery 3 miles south of Katz Strawn field in Stonewall County with potential 288.93 bbls of 42 gravity oil daily at 14/64 inch choke. Bottomed at 6,067 feet, gas oil ratio 410 1, pressure 725 psi, casing 850 psi. Nearby Anderson & Graham No 4 W W Early completed in Runnels County Serratt pool with potential 79.21 bbls daily 46 gravity oil from 2,449 2,452 feet, one mile east of Hatchell.
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American Petrofina Co
Texas
Wichita Falls
Tatum
Stonewall County Wildcat
Katz (Strawn
Aspermont
Runsell
Anderson & Graham
Midland No
NGAA Oklahoma Regional Meet Sets March 18 in City
The NGAA Oklahoma Regional meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in Oklahoma City on March 18 will showcase new ideas equipment and techniques for plant operations. It targets plant operating personnel and covers natural gas handling from well head to transmission outlet. Professor M L Powers of the University of Oklahoma will discuss week kinks in plant operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NGAA
Oklahoma
Biltmore Hotel
Oklahoma City
M. L. Powers
University of Oklahoma
Mock Voyage To Core Of Earth Film Shown By University
The Geology Department shows a 30 minute videotape about the earths center on the universities closed circuit TV. Students will watch the mock voyage to the earths core as part of the semester telecast for the first time on an irregular schedule.
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Earth
Texas
Earth's Center
Geology
Independent tankers seek federal aid to stave bankruptcy in 1960
Washington lawmakers hear from 14 independent tanker firms led by American Tanker Owners about mortgage defaults totaling nearly 200 million dollars. They urge Magnuson backed bills to have the Federal Maritime Administration pay principal and interest or the full debt, and to require 50 percent of offshore oil imports be shipped in American bottoms. House and Senate proposals aim to shield the fleet as Egypt’s Suez crisis receded and domestic oil output expanded.
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Harry Wilson Sharpe
Washington
UPI
Congress
U.S
Warren G. Magnuson
Senate Commerce Committee
Magnuson
Demcrat
Federal Maritime Administration
American Tanker Owners, Inc
Egypt
Suez Canal
Maritime Administration
Budget Bureau
Charles E. Potter
R-Mich
Operators’ Committee
Thor C. Tollefson
R-Wash
Wildcat Oil Prospects and Drilling Progress Across Texas
New drill stem tests and core samples reveal oil shows in Fusselman Spraberry sections near Lamesa and Andrews. Operators Dawson County Gaines County and Martin County report gas and oil returns with various depths, pressures, and perforation intervals. Sequential tests indicate potential production in Spraberry, Wolfcamp, and Ellenburger zones as companies test through 11,000 to 13,000 feet depths.
Seven Rivers Show Recovered Wildcat and Re-Entry Plans in Lea County
Oil activity rises in northwest Lea County New Mexico with Seven Rivers area wells and multiple companies reporting re-entry plans. Hobbs operators Kerner and Pirtle file to re-enter Donovan Woodward No 1 near Lovington to test San Andres and above Permian. Austin Mississippian field well shows 285 feet oil and 44 feet water from a 4090 foot interval. Texaco waits on cement at 14730 feet for No 1 CH State of New Mexico. Outpost Humble No 2-BB and Roy Whitten No 1 Jalmat plan deeper tests.
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Jack Kerner
L. E. Pirtle
Hobbs
Donovan Woodward
North
Lea County
N. M
Lovington
Austin
San Andres
Permain
Seven Rivers
el Cinco Production Co
Shell Federal
West Lea County
Wildcat
Texaco, Inc
State of
New Mexico
Lea ‘County
Monument
Humble Oil & Refining Co
New Mexico State
Kemnitz
E. P. Campbell
Lubbock
Jalmat
Canadian Shot Hole Blows Out on Arctic Drilling Block
A seismic shot hole drilled by The Atlantic Refining Company in the Canadian Northwest Territories blew out February 19, igniting gas that shot flames to 40 feet. The four and a half inch hole reached 275 feet before the blowout, located 35 miles west of Fort Good Hope and 10 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Gas flow had continued for four days with unknown underground volume. Eskimo settlements dot the unexplored muskeg region as Heiland Exploration, Ltd. of Calgary conducts geophysical work for Atlantic. Nearby oil activity includes Norman Wells oil field to the southeast and a Yukon wildcat well to the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
El&rr
Penn
Dallas
Atlantic Refining Company
Canadian Northwest Territories
Fort Good Hope
Arctic Circle
Heiland Exploration, Ltd
Calgary
Alberta
Arctic Bush Tract
Atlantic
Lubbock Hobbs Oil Men Named API Officials
C E Smitty Smith of Lubbock elected district vice chairman for the South Plains by the Southwestern District of the American Petroleum Institute in Dallas. Two Hobbs New Mexico men were named to API posts Henry P Shakel iford Tidewater Oil Co secretary for the Southwest District and George Geyer Cities Service Oil Co district vice chairman for Southeast New Mexico. Henry Kerr named head of the Southwestern District, succeeding L L McDonald. Other district vice chairmen and areas listed including J W Sallee Cardinal Chemical Midland West Texas Charles Foster Gulf Oil Corp Wichita Falls A Greer Farmington Northwestern New Mexico and E C Black Standard Oil Co of Texas Gainesville Northeast Texas.
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C. E. (Smitty) Smith
39Th St
South Plains
American Petroleum Institute
Dallas
Hobbs
N. M
API
Henry P. Shakeliford
Tidewater Oil Co
George Geyer
Cities Service Oil Co
Southeastern New Mexico
Henry Kerr
Kerr
Delhi-Taylor Oil Corp
L. L. McDonald
Fort Worth
Pure ‘Oil Co
Smith
The
Western Co
Oil Information Committee
J. W. Sallee
Cardinal Chemical Co
Midland West Texas
Charles Foster
Gulf,Oil Corp
Wichita Falls
Texas
A Greer
Benson- Montin - Greer Drilling Corp
Farmington
New Mexico
E. C. Black
Standard Oil Co
Gainesville
Guest Geologists To Give Short Courses At UT
Dr Richard H Jahns of California Institute of Technology is at the University of Texas for a graduate seminar on igneous rocks. He opens a series of short courses by nationally known geologists during the spring semester. Dr Francis J Pettijohn of Johns Hopkins will teach March 14 to April 1. Dr Curt Teichert of the U S Geological Survey in Denver will speak on Paleozoic stratigraphy and paleontology in April.
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U.S. Geological Survey
Oil and Gas Laboratory
Denver
Colo
Texas Prospects Dim Offshore Oil Activity in '60 Sets Firm Base
Offshore oil expansion gains in 1960 with Louisiana and California drilling up and Texas prospects weaker. New underwater lease bids cover 1.6 million submerged acres off Louisiana and Texas, amid mobile rigs growth and early underwater storage tests.
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New York
Louisiana
California
U.S
Petroleum Week
Pacific
Continental Shelf
Texas
Lousiana
New Orleans
Bureau of Land Management
Harry Matthews to speak at Lubbock Desk and Derrick meeting
Levelland oilman Harry V. Matthews will address the Lubbock Desk and Derrick Club at 7 p.m. Tuesday March 8 at the Top of Plains Restaurant. His talk titled Thirty Eight Years In the Oil Field covers a long career from Salt Creek Wyoming in 1922 to Texas in 1934 and leadership roles including organizer and first chairman of the South Plains American Petroleum Institute chapter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry. V. Matthews
Levelland
Texas
Pan American Pet. Corp
Lubbock
Top of Plains
Pan American, Mat
Salt Creek
Midwest Refining Co
Wyoming
Montana-Dakota Utilities
North Dakota
Stanolind
Pan American
Hobbs
N.M
Pampa
Brownfield
South Plains
American Petroleum Institute
Noted paleontologist to speak on stratigraphy at Lubbock meeting
March 17 7 30 p m Texas Tech Chemistry Room 101 will host Professor Robert M Kleinpell renowned biostratigrapher and micropaleontologist addressing Principles of Biostratigraphy The talk forms part of a series by AAPG lecturers in the South Plains region with potential for more prominent speakers and wider oil industry ties in Levelland and surrounding areas
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Bill Kalb
Avalanche-Journal Oil
Texas Tech
Robert M. Kleinpell
University of California
Museum of Paleontology
Lubbock Geological Society
Kleinpell
AAPG
API
Coleman Williams
South Plains
APT
Levelland
Williams
Texas Mid- Continent Association
Texas
Railroad Commission
San Andres
LGS
New Oil Gas Wells Lag Behind 1960
oil and gas well completions in Texas are slower than 1959 with 1 688 oil wells and 294 gas wells year to date versus 1 970 and 364 a year ago. Weekly totals show 103 dry holes and 191 plugged wells while wildcatters added four oil and two gas wells. daily allowable oil output declined to 2 924 903 barrels from 3 035 186. State total wells reach 194 095.
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Wildcatters
Phillips Petroleum Strat Test Set In King County
Phillips Petroleum Co Midland will dig a strata graphic test No 8 near Guth southwest King County. The site is 19 miles south of Guth and 2 500 feet from the east of Section 5 Block F H and TC survey.
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Northwest
PSL Survey
King
Phillips
Phillips Petroleum Co
Mid‘land
B. Burnett
Miles
Guthsouthwest King
H&tc
Nine Month Cash Income Rise Seen At Cosden Corp
Cosden Petroleum Corp reports a 13 percent drop in net earnings for the three months ended Jan 31 1960 from the prior year quarter. For the nine month period net income rose 16 percent and cash flow 6 percent. W R Grace & Co bought just over 51 percent of Cosden stock, while Cosden remains a NYSE traded subsidiary with no corporate entity changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Spring
Cosden Petroleum Corp
R. L. Tollett
W. R. Grace & Co
Cosden
Grace
Coaden
Libya
Crude Oil Stocks Rise Slightly Amid Mixed State Totals
UPI reports crude oil stocks for the week ending February 27 totalled 253,149,000 barrels. State totals show Texas at 108,357,008 with a gain of 1,516,000 barrels, Oklahoma up 601,000 to 17,471,000, and California down 197,000 to 28,856,000, among others with mixed changes.
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Washington
UPI
Texas
Illinois- Indiana
Kansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
California
Atlantic Cuts Texas Oil Refinery Runs
The Atlantic Refining Co reduces crude oil runs for the balance of the first quarter by about 16 000 barrels per day due to excess heating oil inventory. Philadelphia Refinery will cut 10 000 barrels per day and Atrecone Refinery 6 000 barrels per day, adding to a prior 7 000 barrel daily cut in late January. R D Bent notes this is the first time industry conditions justify reducing Texas refinery runs.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic Refining Co
Atrecones
R. D. Bent
Texas
Surplus oil sparks search for new markets and uses
The world oil surplus prompts the industry to seek new outlets and higher research spending. Oilmen target steelmaking energy, farming uses beyond tractors, and direct electricity from oil. API notes expanding applications from asphalt films to frost prevention and potential St Lawrence Seaway year-round operation.
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Dawson New York
API
Agriculture Department
Esso Research
St. Lawrence Seaway
Sweeney
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William M. Smith
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Lubbock, Tex
Gamnes
Dawson Fusselman
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co
Husky Oil Corp
Midland
E. M. Dupree
Dawson County
Lamesa
Fusselman
Prospect
Gaines
Gaines County
Four Miles Oil Development Co
Yates
Tri-Service Drilling Co
Gulf Oil Corp
J. B. McKissack
League
Gray Csl
Dunigan Oller Borden — Mill & Meeker
J. B. Slaughter Estate
Dunigan
Ellenburger
Borden County
Gail
T&p Survey
Martin — Great Western Drilling Co
McAlester Fuel Co
Leonard M. Allen
Martin County
Projet
Wolfcamp
Ed Andrews
Andrews
Sinclair Oil and Gas Co., Midland
Strawn
Cobb
Roy Whitten
Jal
Smitty) Smith
Hobbs Oil
Outer Continental Shelf
Itia
U. S. Gulf
Harry Matthews
Neon Commission
Cosden Corp
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