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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 20, 1964

Page

4

Chaves Draws Project In Eddy County Struck From Wolfcamp Test

Chaves and partners outline several drill plans in Eddy, Lea, and Chaves counties. Roswell bound 4 300 foot Todd field project targets Wolfcamp discovery with potential early oil flow. Nearby, Strawn and Tobac fields see multiple No. 1 wildcat and 11 800 foot to 14 000 foot projects with gas and oil shows and varying water.

Hondo Oil & Gas Co Lusk Strawn Hondo-Singer Wildcat Carlsbad Eddy County Covery Tobac Millican Ralph Lowe Hanson Federal Chaves Signal Oil & Gas Co Signal State Caprock Chaves County

Couple Injured Near Lubbock

An elderly Paducah couple was injured in a 11 am Tuesday crash at the FM 1585 and Highway 87 intersection about two miles south of Lubbock. Charles Robert Wood, 69, was admitted to Methodist Hospital in fair condition. his wife Effye Jones Wood, 69, was treated and released the same night. The light car and a truck tractor, both northbound, collided as the truck turned left onto the farm-to-market road. the car then struck an embankment. Jesus V Hernandez of Lamesa, driver of the truck, was not believed injured.

Paducah Lubbock Charles Robert Wood Methodist Hospital Tiis Effye Jones Wood Jesus V. Hernandez Lamesa

Graduation Program Set At Lamesa

Lamesa High School schedules a class sermon for 117 seniors including 21 honor graduates at 8 p.m. Sunday in the LHS auditorium. Graduation exercises follow the next day. W T Hamilton of Downtown Church of Christ will deliver the sermon. Final class day is Friday with report cards not until May 25. Eighth grade promotion is 1:30 p.m. Monday in the junior high auditorium. Blackshear eighth graders promote at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Blackshear auditorium.

Lamesa High School LHS W. T. Hamilton Church of Christ Blackshear

Basin Oil Field Drill Records and Perforation Notes

Readable notes detail multiple oil well names, locations, and drilling stages across North and Central Basin areas in Texas and New Mexico. Entries mention casing types, perforations, squeezes, drilling directions, and awaiting cementing or re-perforation, with several wells tied to Humble, J. H. Gibson Sur, and TaP Sur entities.

North Basin Area Cottle Robinson Bros Owens H&tc Sur Aise Lynn Texas Cook Bik El&rr Terry—Roden Cotten J. H. Gibson Yoakum—Rea Col-Mon & Macdonald Huddleston H. Ela RR Sur Sinclair Welbom Bik. G C&m Sur Jones PSL Sur Cement Socono Great Western West T&p Sur Martin- Merren Tap Sur Humble Wolcott Lge Harley CSL Redtern Shell-Federal Ecaright Federal Ssack Jennings Federal Inec Red Hills Humbe Lene Dria Lowe

Locations And Completions Listings for Multiple Oil Wells

A dense roster of oil and gas well locations and completions. Entries include operator names such as Pan American Petroleum, Standard Oil, Shell, Union Texas, Brandywine, and Gulf Oil, with sections, elevations, ownerships, and production notes. The list spans numerous counties and towns, detailing FNL and FEL measurements, directions, and associated sur.

Borden Reinecke Penn Lakie O&g Co Robinson H&tc Sur N-Vincent Crane—Waddell Giraub San Andres Gulf Ol! Corp W. N. Waddell S-Penwell Gaines—Seminole Standard OU Co. of Texas Seminole Hockley San and Pan American Pet. Corp Lab Inc Concho Csl Dela Duncan Drig. Co Laro Oil Co Felmont Mentone Wildwat Ellen Brandywine Oil Co Grant State Fnel & Fsel H&gn Imperial Sheffield Hilen Standard Oil Co Charles C. Canon Elarr Sur Iran Winkler — Weiner Colby Westbrook Oil Corp Brown Altman T Bell Sur Kermit Brown-Altman T.P. Wey Weiner Brown-Altman T.P John H. Gibson Rt Wasson Union Texas Pet. Corp No Spearman Bik J. H. Gibson Denver City Wasson Union Texas Pet. Corp Roberdeau City Bayview Oil Co Robbins Waddell Gulf BS School Land J. E. Wight Fn&el Bec T&p Ali Gis Estes E. W. Estes A Sur Inwell Hutching MMBAA Sur Winkler Emperor Botill Morton Hendrick We Oil No Hendrick B

Garza Test Recovers Oil At No 1 Post Mont Estate

Socony Mobil Oil Co reports good oil shows from No 1 Post Mont Estate garza County core 3,235 to 3,391 feet with drillstem test in progress from 3,345 to 3,392 feet. Location details given for Section 6, Block 4, K Aycock survey.

Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc Post-Montgomery Estate Wildcat Post Garza County K. Aycock Union Oil Co California W. A. Springer Jr Springer (Tannehill Guthrie King County

Increase in Earnings of Major Oil Firms in Q1 1964

Tulsa special reports 20 large oil companies show an 8.2 percent rise in total earnings for Q1 1964 versus a year earlier, reaching 989,143,000 from 914,553,000. Despite gains, five top firms did not improve profits. prices for gasoline stay low and crude prices have eroded. Growth comes from higher production and refining, not sales, as crude and natural gas liquids output rose 8.1 percent and refinery runs up 6.9 percent.

Tulsa (Special Oil and Gas Journal Weekly Business Magazine

Reeves County wildcat staked by Gulf Oil unit No. 1 Waha Gas

In Reeves County Gulf Oil Corp. staked a 1,600-foot Ellenburger wildcat, No. 1 Waha Gas Unit, 17 miles south of Pyote. The drillsite lies 1,500 feet from the south and 990 feet from the east lines of Section 9, Block C-3. Other wildcat plans include 4,500-foot Nos. 1 May A. Russell in Runnels County and 9,700-foot Ellenburger No. 28 J. M. Shannon in Crockett County, with multiple offsets and survey references noted.

Flows Oil Andrews Socony Mobile Oil Co., Inc Wichita Albany Ralph Ellenburger Discovery Andrews County Dixon Drilling Co Abilene Oscar Brown Joseph Warner Orient Pinmann Masters Reeves—Gulf Oil Corp Pyote Reeves County Runnels Karl Hoblitzelle Dallas A. Russell Norton Runnels County William Howell Survey Patterson Searcher Crockett—Continental Oil Co J. M. Shannon Clark Survey Wilmeth (Canyon S. C. Hering Drilling Co D. C. Tankersley Wildcat M. W. Kurtz

Sheep Stray Tax Rejected On Sunday in Kroonstad

In Kroonstad Free State South Africa the town council ruled it unethical to impound straying sheep on Sundays while owners attend church. A farmer faced a charge of 28 cents per head for 300 sheep rounded up on municipal land.

Okay Kroonstad Free _ State Province South Africa

Federal oil and gas leases up for public drawing in Santa Fe

The United States Government will hold a monthly public drawing in Santa Fe New Mexico for oil and gas leases in several counties including Lea Eddy and San Juan with thousands of acres offered at 50 cents per acre Some leases carry values at hundreds of dollars per acre The notice invites readers to contact the oldest lease filing service in the USA Box 75 Santa Fe New Mexico for guidance with no obligation

United States Santa Fe New Mexico Lea, Eddy and San Juan Oklahoma Texas USA

Also Mentioned on This Page

U.S. Weather Bureau Central Plains West Gulf Coast Pacific Northwest Roosevelt Jack L. McClellan Roswell Todd Crossroads Roosevelt County Lea—Tenneco Oil Co U.S.A Lone Star Producing Co Gulf State Lovington Lea County Clark Tiffany, Patek Phillipe FREE GARZA Post .Gler Tom W. Landers McCrary Holmes Divers & Cong Fort Stockton Humbie O&r Gc&sf Sur Elev Uras Scurry—Cogdell Elen Texaco Inc, No P. L. Fullerlew H&tc Survey Tom Green Dune Lui Valcch SavanLy Devil's Courthouse Cisco WCRR Nestle POLY Toni MFE Associates Federal Land Bokum Smirnoff STE
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