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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1964
Page
4
Re entry wildcat in southwest Terry County by J W Cotten No 1 recovered oil on a drillstem test of the lower Mississippian. A 12 383-415 ft section flowed gas at top in 35 minutes yielding 20 ft free oil and 100 ft oil cut mud. Bottomhole pressures ranged 43-87 psi initial and 4356 psi final after one hour.
Gas discovery completed in Crane County by Bell Petroleum Co at No 7 Mobil Glen in Mon toy a formation yielding an absolute open flow potential of 14,000,000 cubic feet per day from 5,164 to 5,184 feet. In Tom Green County Strike Finaled Tucker Drilling Co reported a 126.41 barrel 31.95 gravity oil with 2 percent water over 24 hours at No 1 A M Bryant near Knickerbocker, with acidized zone and notable gas-oil ratio. PECOS-Gulf Oil staked a 4,000-foot wildcat near Fort Stockton. Midland tests show distillate production from No 2 Roy D Jones with multi-stage flow in Devonian. Culberson wildcat No 112 Republic near Kent abandoned after reaching 3,210 feet.
In Eddy County Harvey E. Yates completed No 1 Yates Federal Deep wildcat north-west of Carlsbad, flowing 650 barrels of 24 degree oil in 24 hours after acidizing the Wolfcamp zone. No. 1 L Federal in Lea County flowed gas at up to 3.4 million cubic feet daily, with surface pressure 1075 psi, from a Morrow section. In Chaves County Cabot Corp completed No 1 McAlester State in the Tobac field, flowing 551 barrels of 46 gravity oil, and Cabot began locating a 9,200-foot Tobac project No 2. Cities Service Oil completed No 2-B Government Federal near Crossroads in Roosevelt County, producing 486 barrels of oil and 64 barrels of water from perforations in the Government Federal interval.
A detailed ledger of oil and gas locations and completions across Texas lists field names, operator firms, field sections, survey lines, and vicinity notes. Entries name Wildcat and West Welch units, operators like Texaco, Cities Service, Humble, and Standard Oil, with sections, ranges, and surface ownership sprinkled through the compilation.
Phillips Petroleum Co announces price cuts following a industry trend. A five cent per barrel reduction applies to Oklahoma sweet crude except Burbank fields and to Kansas crude except in Meade and Morton counties. Seven cents applies to Rangely Colorado, and ten cents to some Texas Gulf Coast fields. Mexico City reports land reform laws to be overhauled.
North and Central Basin entries list multiple wells in Texas and New Mexico with operator names such as Tex Crude, Pennzoil, Sinclair, and Gulf State on Sec lines around H&TR and T&P survey routes. Drilling depths range from 1 800 to 14 000 feet, with mentions of drilling in progress, testing potential products, setting casing, and preparing to acidize. The Mississippi operation records a 40 foot mud recovery and noted detrital material and detrital intervals.
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