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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1962
Page
2
Drilling plans include No 1 Cole in Glorieta area northeast Lynn County and No 1 Cole in Scurry County with Sitton Norton awarded the drilling contract. Offsets and re entries cover numerous fields including Britt Spraberry in Dawson and Jones Estate A in Gaines. Pan American continues Midland Farms Midland field Wolfcamp discovery near Inez Andrews County with plastic mulch aiding season extension.
Zapata Petroleum Corp No 1 Ivey will be drilled to 17 500 feet on a 640 acre lease in West Pecos County five miles south of Cayanosa. The operation lies near the Rojo Caballos gas field as part of a wildcat program.
Detailed oil and gas well locations completions across Andrews and surrounding counties. Includes operator names Texaco Pan Am Gulf Socony Mobil, fields such as Midland Farms Crane Ector Howard Loving Cochr an and Gow, with sec/township ranges, depths, flow rates, bo p d and frac data, and notes on elevations and gas oil zones.
Norman Oil Co. staked the fourth well attempt No. 1 Sallie Dunigan in Barbara Moore Noodle Creek field in northwest Fisher County ten miles northwest of Ro tan. The offset aims to 4000 feet with rotary tools at drillsite 959 feet north and 660 feet west of the section corner. In Coke County Linehan and Stolten burg will drill No. 1 Albert N. Rawlings a 3850 foot wildcat six miles southwest of Bronte near Casimer Rubio survey Casimer Rubio No. 23.
West Texas geologist R. T. Stotler Jr. linked the Sierra Diablo region with the Midland Basin, comparing shelf and basin-ward formations. He traced Delaware Basin facies shifts, noted 2500 feet of sediments in Apache, Marble and Victoria Canyons, and cited regional oil production and employment figures in Texas.
Consolidated Oil & Gas Co completed its No 1 Southern Union State wildcat nine miles southeast of Lovington as an Abo oil discovery. Early test flowed 288 barrels of oil per day through a narrow choke after acidizing, with 8,880 to 8,898 feet depth and 550 psi tubing pressure.
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