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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1957
Page
7
Lubbock area oil activity ebbs and flows with Permian and Ordovician tests as Lamb and Andrews counties host several projects. Dr. Al Wade of Texas Tech spoke on the International Geophysical Year, contrasting past Antarctic gear with modern equipment and the coming polar research effort.
Joseph B. Ashton, Texas Tech alumnus and son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Ashton of Lamesa, named Dowell Fellowship in Chemistry at the University of Texas. The award includes 1500 dollars to the student and 500 dollars for lab equipment. Announcement came from Norman Hackerman and J. B. Stone of Dowell. Ashton, born in Brownwood, studied at San Angelo San Antonio and Brownwood, earned a chemistry degree at Texas Tech, and later entered UT graduate school after Army service.
A cross section of energy executives from Bell Oil Properties Maurice Steele Howce Miles Kernaghan Joe Morris Pan American James Moore Bob Bocell Ray Diekemper and Har lan Hodges convened in Lubbock to discuss industry moves with independent players from Magnolia Brownfield and Alamo Corp in attendance.
Regional oil drilling notes list numerous wells across Andrews and surrounding counties. Entries name operators such as Fuller ton Workover Pan American Petroleum, Shell, Humble, Gulf, and Continental and Shell, with specifics on sections, distances, acreages, elevations, and rotary depths near Andrews Fort Worth Midland Lubbock Seminole Denver City Snyder and other Texas towns.
Jim Carter, a Texas Tech petroleum engineering alumnus, returns to campus as an instructor in Prof. Bill Ducker's department. A Frankfort Indiana native, he has lived in Lubbock since 1950 and earned a B S in petroleum engineering last June. He previously worked for Magnolia Petroleum Co and in Kermit's natural gas unit. Carter was employed by Magnolia at Ulysses Kansas and Core Laboratories in Lubbock during school. He is a member of SPE and AI ME and was elected faculty representative of the SPE student chapter at Tech. He is not married. Department head W L Ducker praised him as a good man and top-drawer instructor.
The Humble Oil and Refining Co medical unit receives the top honor at the 10th annual health conference for business and industry for outstanding contribution to industrial health.
Southwest Lea County tests in the Ellenburger show gas and distillate from drillstem tests in Audie Richards No 1 wildcat. First test flowed 170 900 cubic feet daily with gas later at 340 000 cubic feet daily and a 2 000 foot water blanket. Additional wildcat projects planned in Eddy and Chaves Counties.
The American Assn of Oilwell Drilling Contractors reports 2716 active rotary rigs this week, down from 2746 last week and 2700 a month ago. Texas land sites mostly fall while offshore Gulf and South Louisiana offshore show declines. Colorado Illinois New Mexico Montana post gains.
Tidewater Oil Corp announces the No. 1 B Clayton and Johnson in Borden County produced 33 barrels of oil and 66 barrels of water in 24 hours from multiple perforations. Nearby wells John L. Cox No 1 Graves and others near Gail and Lamesa are at various depths drilling limestone shale and sand formations.
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