Gas finds and drill sites span Pecos Lea counties in wildcat tests
In west central Pecos and northeast Lea counties a series of wildcat tests and drill sites report gas and oil shows. No. 1 Gulf Oil Corp and No. 1 GB State test around Vealmoor and Crossroads area reveal pressures from 2,000 to 2,110 pounds with oil potential and shallow-water filtrates amid complex Devonian and Siluro-1 formations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard County
Lea County
Ghbot Corp
Gulf Oil Corp
Roswell
L. Lockhart
Crossroads
Fallof
Ellenburger
Perfora
Vealmoor
Jalmar
Penn
Ian Reef
Pecos
Luther
Fusselman
T&p
TXL Oil Corp
Lana
Lea
Great Western
Lime and Sanding Co
Lof Bledsoe
Texas
Industry Golfers Aim At API Golf Tourney
The seventh annual API Blind Bogey Golf Tournament at Brownfield Country Club sponsors 200 prizes totaling 4000 dollars to aid Texas Tech engineering scholarships. Open to public with starting times via C G Griffin. Friday slots available, Saturday filling fast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
API
South Plains
Brownfield Country Club
South] Plains
Texas Tech
C. G. Griffin
Fulgham To Talk At Oil Women's Meet Tuesday
Fulgham, a Plainsman Hotel speaker, will address the Lubbock Desk and Derrick Club at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting, featuring prize drawings and a barbecue dinner, will cover oil payments loans and geophysical survey advances led by Birdwell Division of Seismograph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Fulgham
Lubbock
Exa
National Bank
Derrick Club
Plainsman
Oid
Tulsa
Mineola
Ion University
Dent
Birdwell
Said
re-Corp
First National Bank
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
Allan Shivers
Texas
New Mexico Rig Count Drops Amid Basin Plains Decline
The September 1 tally shows a sharp drop in new oil rigs across the Permian Basin and surrounding Plains counties led by a 21 rig loss in New Mexico. Lea County remains a leading Basin county despite overall activity declines from 258 last week to 235.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crane
New Mexico
Drews
Permian Basin
South Plains
South
pre-Plains
Plains
Anthem
Reed$ Roller Bit Co
Lea County X. M
I State
Ector
Ramsey to speak at TMCOGA meet in Fort Worth
Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey named to address oil and gas leaders at the 42nd Annual TMCOGA meeting in Fort Worth September 25 to 27. William F. Kenney of Shell Oil and Felix R. McKnight of The Dallas Times Herald will also speak, with Ramsey set to address the group the following day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Ben Ramsey
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas Oil and Gas Industry
Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assn
Fort Worth
Estill S. Heyser, Jr
Association
Ser
William F. Kenney
New York
Shell Oil Co
Felix R. McKnight
The
Times Herald
Kenney
American Petroleum Institute
McKnight
American Society
Nawinnsman Wlaws
Yuneen
Suse Kenney
Olin
Seherchert
Berson
Stonewall
Tervi Sl
Winkler
Texas
Energy supremacy claimed by IPAA in 1961 Oil book
The Independent Petroleum Association of America touts 1961 IPAA edition The Oil Producing Industry in Your State as showing U S dominance in energy with 73 percent of consumption from oil and gas and high living standards. It notes 1960 wages bought 7.4 gallons of gasoline per hour versus higher earlier years.
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Washington
United States
U. S
Asciation of
America
IPAA
IPA
Europe
U.S
Aluminum drill pipe string hits field tests in South Texas
Shell Oil Co using Reynolds aluminum drill pipe on a South Texas rig for the past months, with the Alvin F. Sievers No. 1 in DeWitt County first drilled to 10 400 feet. Pennington cites good mechanical performance and easier handling, while noting a minor erosion issue inside the tool joint solved by remedial changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle East
U. Sapacity
Houston
Phoenix
Ariz
Pennington
Reynolds
Metals Co
Ian Energy
Reed
Europe
IPAA
Roller Bit Co
Shellpipe
Shell Oil Co
Texas
Shell
Alvin F. Sievers
DeWitt County
Russia expands oil push across Free World markets
World Oil reports Russia’s oil offensive aims to 60 per cent export share by 1965 with beachheads in 16 Free World nations. Crude sold to Free World averages $1.89 a barrel, satellite rates higher at $2.02, and Venezuela tops $3.24. Expansion includes equipment and drills sent to India and other regions. Latin America sees a $100 million Argentina credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max B
Seel
Russia
Houston
Middle East
Venemuela
World Oil
This Week
Syria
Iraq
Afghanistan
Ethiopia
Ghats
India
Pakistan
Argentina
Moscow
Bodwin
British Guiana
Val
Early Plains Wildcats Oil Fever and Wildcat Drills
A historic sketch of South Plains oil fever from 1917 to 1921 details early failed and partial successes. It notes companies like Lubbock Slaton Oil, Tahoka Oil and Gas, Cedar Lake Land & Oil, and Woodward Oil, plus key events near Burkburnett, Post, and Justiceburg. The piece highlights surface oil shows, stockholder troubles, and a pivotal 1921 pumping well near Post marking South Plains’ first commercial oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Kale
Avalanche-Journal Oil Fastor
South Plains
C. W. Post
Cereal
Post
Panhandle
Amarillo
Ranger Burkburnett
Desdemona
West Central Texas
Lubbock Avalanche
Plains Journal
A-J
Golden Goose Oil Co
13 Oil Co
Tahora Wildcat
Lubbock-Slaton Oil Co
Burkburnett
Dallas
Tahoka Oil and Gas Co
Lynn County
Clear Lake
Permian Basin
Lubbock
Brownfield
Tahoka
Cedar Like Land & Oil Co
Lubbock l
Harry WE
Tohoka
Cedar Lake
Happy Area
Weekly
Avalanche
Happy, Co
Swisher County
Woodward Oil & ¢Oss
Justiceberg
Phelps
Verona
Lily
Jskeleton
Garza County
Aber
W. E. Bledsoe
Unclear OCR Fragment Highlights Local Notices
Fragmentary text mentions locations and completions with garbled names and phrases. No clear event, date, or identifiable entities are readable enough to summarize a coherent notice.
Mobil Office to Transfer Oil Engineer Floyd A. Cuff
Floyd A. Cuff, a Mobil Oil Company employee, moves from the Santa Fe Springs area of the Los Angeles Division to the Lubbock district of the Midland division. He will serve as production engineer in reserves and reservoir engineering. Cuff, raised in Whittier, earned a B.S. from US Academy and an M.S. from USC. He joined Mobil in 1957. He, his wife Betty Jo, and their five children will relocate to Lubbock soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd A. Cuff
Mobil Ot Co
Santa Fe Springs
Los Angeles
Lubbock
Midland
Cuff
Cuti
Whittier
Cahit
U.S Academy
University of Southern California
Campu
Betty Jo
Thei
Futury
There In The Basin AORDEN Rate & Pri antee Ditk 2
Fragmented OCR text mentions various names and terms with unclear context. It appears to be a damaged page item listing people and places with partial phrases. No coherent event or outcome is discernible to summarize reliably.
Bill to grant access to corporate records in anti trust suits
A proposed bill would let the Justice Department seize records in civil anti trust cases if companies refuse to surrender them. Fines and jail could follow for noncompliance, with rights of appeal intact. Kennedy and Kefauver backers argue broader document access aids enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Wilson Sharpe Washington
UPI
Congress
Justice Department
Robert F. Kennedy
House Judiciary Subcommittee
The
Justice
Department
Estes. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate
Federals ‘Trade Commission
Emanuel ‘Celler
DN. Y
House Judiciary Committee
Celler
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Lee Loevinger
FTC
Paul Rand Dixon
Catter
FIC
Supreme Court
Trbunal
U. S. Census Bureau
Census Bureau
Houston
New York
Borger Oil Show Set This Week
Officials sent 750 invitations to oil and gas companies across Texas Kansas Oklahoma Colorado and New Mexico for the 1961 Magic Plains Oil Exposition in Borger Texas. The biennial event runs September 6 dinner and September 7 to 9 with daily hours from 1 to 10 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borger Oil Show
Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado
New Mexico
Borger
Texas
Radio ban urged by Noise Abatement Society
The Noise Abatement Society Saturday urged a law banning all transistor radios heard beyond three feet. The bid comes amid coverage of the Magic Plains Oil Exposition which features a high school football game Friday night and other attractions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mundan
UFI
Range
Grandmother Seeks World Week of Prayer for Peace
Salt Lake City AP report states Mrs. Garit telephoned the White House to urge President Kennedy to call for a global week of prayer for peace. She spoke with Andrew Hatcher, who said the idea would be brought to the President and advised sending a telegram.
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Salt Lake City
White House
Kennedy
Garit
Andrew Y. Hatcher
Hatcher
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Dalmont
S. B. Evett
Lee Harrison
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Lee Harison
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Smi Se Cth
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Sand
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Italy
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