Oil strikes and completions roll across Texas fields
Robinson Bros. Oil Producers drilled No. 2 Tippen, a Pennsylvanian discovery near Paducah in south Cottle County, flowing 508 barrels of 35.8 gravity oil in 24 hours. A nearby Ellenburger discovery at Fuller in Scurry County produced 106 barrels of oil plus 36 barrels water in 24 hours, with acidizing and fracturing. Gas shows, offsets, and drill locations are noted for multiple wells across Garza, Andrews, Borden, Gaines counties and nearby fields, detailing perforation depths and line distances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robinson Bros. Oil Producers
Tippen
Paducah
South Cottle County
Mep&p Survey
Robinson No. 1
Owens
Ellenburger
Wolfcamp
H&tc Survey
Borden — Lake Oil & Gas Co
Robinson
Vincent
Borden County
H&tc
Runnels
Karl Hoblitzelle
Dallas
Patterson
Norton
William Howell
Ronald Perkins
Texas oil proration sets June output at 28 percent
The Railroad Commission fixed a June production pattern at 28 percent of potential, capping Texas oil output at 2,872,208 barrels per day. The June average allowable was 2,900,852 barrels daily, above May’s 28.5 percent level, marking the highest June allowance since 1959 despite a drop from last June. Purchasers projected 2,530,838 barrels daily for June, about 3,956 less than May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas
Bureau of Mines
Sun
Texaco
Prospector Sets 7700‑ft Wildcat in Pecos County No. 1 Grant State
Brandywine Oil Co stakes a 7700 foot wildcat 10 miles southwest of Imperial in Pecos County near Pecos Valley field. No Ellenburger production nearby. Nearby lines and section details noted. no production yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandywine Oil Co
Grant State
Imperial
Pecos County
Pecos Valley
Port Acres Field gas small-tract producers seek higher allowables
The Railroad Commission will hear May 27 on boosting production allowables for small-tract gas producers in Jefferson County Port Acres Field. Originating from a 1962 Texas Supreme Court ruling voiding a favorable field allocation, the case cites about half of the field’s wells operated by small-tract firms including J C Barnes, R J Bauman Drilling, Henderson Drilling, Bal lard Cordell, Draper Goodale, Gray Oil, W H Hudson, P G Lake, and others from Houston, Midland, Lake Charles, Liberty, Tyler and Dallas.
Chaves Test Drills No. 2 Shell State in Flying M Field
Coastal States Producing Co plans a 1,530-foot drilling project in the Flying M San Andres field, 14 miles northeast of Caprock in northwest Lea County. No. 1 Signal State previously yielded oil. No. 2 Shell State aims to test oil and gas with initial data showing gas and salt water, while coring proceeds below 9,014 feet near Section 9-98-36 and Cabot Corp. area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrews Phillips Petroleum Co
Goldsmith, North
San Andres
Andrews
Andrews County
Gaines Standard Oil Co
Texas
Seminole
Gaines County
Schleicher Ashman & Hilliard Oil Co
McBurnett
Eldorado
Schleicher County
Gh&sa
Page (Strawn
Reagan Bta Oil Producers of Midland
Scott, Ltd
Big Lake
Reagan County
T&p Survey
John Scott
Graybure
Union Oil Co of
California
Coastal States Producing Co
Shell State
Flying M
Caprock
Lea County
Chaves
Cabot Corp
Also Mentioned on This Page
Isears' Roebuck and CO
Garza Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc
Post-Montgomery Estate
Clear Fork
Wildcat
Post
Garza County
K. Aycock
Commission
Atlantic
Mobil
Humble
Indiana
Gulf
Sinclair
Standard of Texas
Shell
Phillips
Cities Service
Continental
Ptiows
Jears
Sears
Lon
RCA
RCA Whimlpoo
Roadie Corporation of
Amerte
Ave
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