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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1952
Page
10
Odessa and Houston figures gather for Earl Maddox retirement salute after 47 years in pipelines. Humble Pipe Line officials and officials from East Texas and Gulf Coast attend a Western barbecue for about 1000 guests at Ector County Park.
Oklahoma oil operators drilled 93 new wells in the past week as the steel strike continues to affect activity. Tulsa World data shows 103 first reports and 126 completions previously, with 11 wells finaled this week, down 15 from before.
Tom D. Fowler reports a completion of a weak pumping wildcat in Martin County. Lindsey No. 1 produced eight barrels of 26.7 gravity oil with 66.6 percent water from open hole below 4,260 feet. Gas soil ratio was 50 to one. total depth 4,330 feet. The formation was treated with 5,000 gallons of acid.
Secretary of State announces two Permian Basin firms receive domestic charters, with Odess and Prairie Machine and Tool Inc listed for 50 year charters and capital stock of 24 000. Incorporators include L W Chadderson W L Smotherman Basin Petroleum Midland and Jack W Lubbes. Charter of Smith and Quicksilver of Odessa amended to raise capital. The New Modern Cleaners dissolved. L and L Inc chartered in New Mexico gets ten year Texas trade permit with offices in Odessa and Lubbock and William Lawrimore Jr as Texas agent.
Deputies in Houston rounded up 51 cattle spilled onto a Katy highway when a cattle truck jackknifed. Driver Bobby E. McMillan 17 of San Antonio swerved to miss a car driven by H A Sailsburg 59 an architect from Houston. Three cattle were crushed. Sailsburg faced a reckless driving charge.
About 575 Shell Pipe Line Odessa Division employees paused for a farewell at the county park outing. A. F. Terrill of Colorado City received gifts and a television set certificate as he departs to head Trans Mountain Oil Pipe Line in Vancouver. Terrill, 60, quipped he likes cold weather. The program included top Shell Line figures T. E. Swigart and Joe T. Dickerson and featured the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Award for E. C. Reece, noting 1,800 days without a loss-time injury and 1,595,171 safe man hours since January 16, 1948.
Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman will give the principal address at the Interstate Oil Compact Commission summer meeting in Banff Alberta September 1 3. The topic Petroleum Conservation and Defense calls for cooperation among states the federal government and Canada. Chapman administrator of the Petroleum Administration for Defense is to discuss oil and gas conservation with J Ed Warren of Midland accompanying him.
Recovery of further shows reported in two deep wildcats in Northeast Ector County. Brill No 1 David Falken tested gas in 23 minutes from 9 825 895 feet in Lower Wolf camp near North Cowden Field. Brill No 1 Sallie Ratliff swabbed Lower perforations in Atoka formation with acid treatment. Hanley Co Sinclair Oil Gulf Oil active in region as wildcatting and development expands near Odessa.
The text argues that moose and elk cannot thrive amid civilization and are likely to disappear except in remote areas or where special legal protection exists.
Atlantic Refining Co. asks the Railroad Commission to approve a waterflood plan for the Ward Estes North Ward Estes field. Six leases wells presently yield eight barrels daily. plan injects through Nos 2 4 and 6 with up to 2000 barrels of treated water at 300 psi. Each well would be capped at 20 barrels per day.
Oil well completions for 1952 topped 7,000 as 228 new wells were completed this week. The Texas Railroad Commission reported the year total at 7,058, up from 6,433 last year, with 23 gas wells bringing the gas total to 526 from 494. Dry holes remained high at 123 for the week and 4,059 for the year, versus 3,380 a year ago.
Sun Oil Co marks its 50th anniversary in the Southwest by opening a new Production Laboratory in Beaumont. The two story, modern facility spans 21 000 square feet and expands scientific services offered to the region.
Lubbock explorer Tobe Foster has fled to extend a wildcat well to 4 800 feet in Andrews County. The hole lies in University Lands No 11 984 north and west of section 17 block 14 about 10 miles northwest of Andrews. Cities Service Oil Co plugged and abandoned the dry hole at 3 200 feet.
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