Frank Pickrell recalls 50 years in the petroleum industry
Texas native Frank Pickrell recalls drilling the Santa Rita No. 1 well, a pivotal discovery in the Permian Basin. Born in Ennis and later living in El Paso, he details his gamble into oil after World War I service and the path to building one of the nation’s richest fields, with more than 40 wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Pickrell
Michael Wester
Texas
Pickrell
el Paso
Santa Rita
Permian
West Texas
New Mexico
U.S
Permian Basin Petroleum Hall of Fame
Pioneer oilman Pickrell recounts wildcat days and lessons
Retired Texas drilling figure recalls leaving a small-town start for Burkburnett and Fort Worth deals to lease 431 300 acres of UT land. A $500 stake and later cheap gear led to a successful wildcat well. He notes persistent problems, progress in drilling tech, and continued belief in oil's bright future and evolving tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burkburnett
Fort Worth
University of Texas
Ranger
West Texas
Pickrell
Texas Operators Set Meeting to Review Oil Industry
Texas oil operators large and small assemble for the 53rd Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association session in Houston to assess production limits, quotas, and exploration incentives amid a 100 percent April allowable and tight natural gas supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max B. Skelton
Houston
Texas Oil
Texas
Texas Mid- Continent Oil & Gas Association
Buschman
Harry Bridges
Shell Oil Co
Wilton E. Scott
Tenneco, Inc
Texas Conservation Committee For
Tech Group Hosts AIME Convention in San Antonio
Texas Tech petroleum engineering students host university groups for the 47th Annual Fall Meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in San Antonio. James Hawkins moderates a 4. seconds session with panelists Buck Curtis Joe Warren Woody Craig Kurt Leutwyler and Bobby Abernathy as 5,000 industry attendees gather at the Plaza del Rio Hotel lounge to discuss Opportunities and Challenges in the petroleum industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Tech Petroleum Egineering Department
Society of Petroleum Engineers
San Antonio
James Hawkins
H. W. Winkler
Texas Tech Petroleum Engineering Department
SPE
Tech
Plancio del Rio
L. B
Buck) Curtis
Continental Oil Co
Joe Warren
Santa Fe International
Woody) Craig Jr
Amoco International
Kurt Leutwyler
Baker Oil Tools
Bobby Abernathy
American Quasar Petroleum Co
U.S
Tech Group
Oil editor highlights King County and multiple wildcats in Texas
Ray Westbrook reports Permian Basin drilling advances with a King County strike and new wildcat locations in King Hale Borden Hockley and Dickens counties. Operations include a No. 2 Y S. B. Burnett Estate lower Strawn well near Guthrie and several other 7,200 to 7,800 foot tests planned by Doric Dorchester and Abilene operators with various drill depths and line distances recorded.
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King County
King, Hale, Borden, Hockley and
Dickens
Hale County
Doric Exploration
W. B. Dyer
Cotton Center
Clearfork
Sabine County School Land Survey
Dorchester Exploration
Coleman
Borden
Borden County
Gail
Fusselman
T&p Survey
Retirement of Area Foreman Hugh R Elledge
Hugh R Elledge senior production foreman at Mobil Oil Corp Buckeye Foreman Area in Midland Producing Division Hobbs retired after 34 years of service. A Lovington Country Club dinner honored him with a jeweled emblem and testimonial while fellow employees presented a gift. He is a Springfield Mississippi native who started as a carpenter in Salam Illinois and Sundown before becoming Snyder production foreman in 1959 and advancing to his current post in 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh R. Elledge
Mobil Oil Corp
Hobbs
Lovington Country Club
Joe Alcott
Elledge
Springfield
Miss
Salam
Til
Albion
Ill
Sundown
Snyder
Government Otters No Quota Hike
Dallas AP Morrell, director of the Interior Department Office of Oil and Gas, told two day seminar attendees that quotas invite short term gains. He warned that quotas erode refining, security, and research for clean fuels and cautioned against undermining domestic self sufficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Gene P. Morrell
Interior Department
Office of Oil and Gas
Morrell
Historic decision recalled on Texas mineral rights
A mid-19th century Austin lawyer John Hancock helped rewrite the Texas constitution in 1866, shifting ownership of subsurface resources to the state. The move, rooted in Spanish law, later unlocked oil and gas wealth, with Texas taxpayers paying about $39 billion since 1845 and mineral output totaling $114 billion, enough to cover state costs nearly three times over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Sargent
Austin
UPI
John Hancock
Hancock
Texas
Wildcat oil well listings across Texas and surrounding areas
A slate of what appear to be wildcat and exploratory oil wells described with field names, section and line references, distances from north south and east west lines, and measured depths, positioned near Caprock, White City, Hobbs, and Aspermont with several operators including Chaves-Cockrell Corp, J M Huber Corp, Imexco Oil Co, and Rector & Schumacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big B
Lower Strawn
J. L. Parson Survey
Chaves — Cockrell Corp
oo-Federal
Caprock
J. M. Huber Corp
Western USA
Wasing Ranch
Morrow
White City
Imexco OH Co
Four Forks
Wildcat
Neaf
Kent — Rector & Schumacher
Frank Gale
Kec i
Block 1
H&gn
Girard
LEA — Buffalo Resources
Corm Nu Price
Garrett
West iDevonian
Hobbs
Runnels
Delray
Sponewall
Plckens
Herrera
H&tc Survey
Aspermont
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Ennis
Oik News
Organization of Oil and Gas Producers
Suez Canal
Europe
Robert A. Buschman
Texas Mid-Continent
A Ray Westbrook
Taubert, Steed, Gunn & Meeders
Y S. B. Burnett
Guthrie
Taubert
Captain Burnett
John H. Gibson
Hockley County
John H. Doyle
Slaughter
San Andres
South Hockley County
Joseph J. O'Neill, Jr
Midland
Abilene
Phil Kendrick, Jr
Fisher-Webb
Dickens County
J. W. Langford
Duck Creek
Tannehill
Clear Fork
Sitton & Norton
Brownfield Hwy
Slide Road
Mexican Republic
Republic of
Statehood
Tom Nations
Levelland
Amoco
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