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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1952
Page
5
Nine wells, with potentials from 23 to 783 barrels, were listed across eight counties. Spraberry fields in Midland County reported two new producers, with others in Cochran, Gaines, Glasscock, Hale, Kent, Sterling and Yoakum counties showing varied oil yields, gas oil ratios, depths, fracture treatment, and acid volumes.
A Hughes Tool Co report to the American Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors shows 2,521 rigs active in U S and Canada for the week ending July 28, down from 2,611 a week earlier and 2,850 a month earlier. The 90-rig drop follows the 53 day steel strike ending July 24, with expected months before normal operations resume. West Texas New Mexico area led declines with 488 rigs, and all major regions posted losses.
The Lone Star Gas Co of Dallas asked the power commission for authority to build a compressor station and five miles of pipeline at a cost of 762687 dollars. The project includes a 2640 horsepower compressor to store interstate gas in the New York City field reservoir in Clay County Texas and would improve service in Dallas Fort Worth and North Texas markets.
Railroad Commission reports potential flow at Chapman and McFarlin Production Co. No. D. M. Cogdell Jr. wildcat in Kent County. The well produced 287 barrels of 38 degree crude with a gas oil ratio of 404 to one. Choke at half inch, flowing tubing pressure 50 psi, casing perforated between 4535 and 4710 feet.
State officials announced that the St. Paul Lutheran Church of Monahans received a 50 year public worship charter with no capital stock. Incorporators are Otto Meyer Al Sander and Eugene W. Becker. The Webb Insect Exterminator Co of Midland was dissolved.
Inman applied to deepen the Barton No 1 wildcat in Gaines County about three miles northeast of Seminole. The location sits 660 feet from the south and west lines of section 134-G WTRR Survey with a proposed depth of 6,000 feet.
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