New Oil Drilling Projects Filed in Scurry Howard and Crane Counties
Applications to drill in Howard and Scurry counties and a deepening operation in Crane County are filed. Names include Robert L. Wood of Midland targeting a 2800 foot Glorieta well in Scurry County near Brantex Glorieta pool. Malcolm Robertson of Lubbock pursues 3200 foot Doubeht in Howard County southeast of the Howard Glasscock field. Gulf Oil plans a 6000 foot west Ellenburger deepening at No 31 Waddell in Crane County, originally 3700 feet in Sand Hills McKnight.
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Howard
Scurry
Crane County
Robert L. Wood
Midland
Scurry County
Clarkston, Et al
H&tc Survey
Malcom Robertson
Howard County
Howard-Glasscock Field
W&nw
Ellenburger
Gulf Oil Corp
W. N. Waddell
Sand Hills McKnight
Odessa Junior College bids for gym additions
Sealed proposals to Odessa Junior College District for additions and improvements to the gymnasium on the Odessa campus are invited from general contractors. Bid must include all general and mechanical work with a 5 percent bid bond, submitted in a double sealed envelope by December 19, 1955 at 2 00 p.m. in the Odessa Admin Building Library.
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Odessa American
W. Gaddy
Board of Regents
Odessa Junior College
Odessa
Texas
Andrews Highway
J. W. Gaddv
Bend
State of
Gronsend Clift
Cortractear
Oruman
Odessa Tunior College
Mrr
J. W. Gaddy
Notice to Bidders Odessa Texas Auto Purchase
The Honorable Mayor and City Council of Odessa Texas will receive bids until 2 06 P M December 13 1955 for furnishing one new automobile. Proposals and general specs available from City Secretary R H Alvey at City Hall Odessa Texas.
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Odessa
Texas
R. H. Alvey
Oil and gas drillings stake six wildcat locations across Texas
In Andrews County six new wildcat prospects are staked by Clifford L Brown Jr Corsicana and others with two University of Texas tests on 160 acre leases 11 miles north of Andrews. In Fisher Yoakum and Sterling Counties additional drill sites were staked with rotary tests ranging from 4 600 to 12 500 feet and leases between 82 and 320 acres.
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Fisher
Yoakum
Sterling
Andrews County
Clifford L. Brown Jr
Corsicana
University of Texas
Andrews
University ‘Lands Survey
University ‘of Texas
University Lands
Miles Stone Drilling Co
Chambers and Kennedy
H. L. Brown
Lockhart and Brown
Fisher County
West Central’ Drilling Co. Et al
H&tc
Roby
Yoakum County
Warren Petroleum Corp
Mary D. Clayton
Plains
Sterling County
Rudder and Wilbanks Brothers and Carper Drilling Co
McEntire
T&p
Sterling City
Ector Wildcat Shows Oil on Test in Texas and Pacific No 2
Ector Wildcat in Ector County cut a core from 8378 to 8428 feet, recovering 45 feet of lime with oil shows from 8382 to 8388 feet. DST ran for three hours. 6800 feet of gas, 30 feet of heavy oil and gas cut mud, 345 feet of oil, and 15 feet of salt water were recorded. Flowing pressure 150 psi and 15 minute shut in 1125 psi. Drilling advanced to 8692 feet.
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Texas and Pacific No
Cowden
Wildcat
Ector County
Midland Wildcat Finds Oil On Test
Gulf Oil Corporation's No. 10 Scharbauer Jr. wildcat in Midland County drilled at 9915 feet and recovered oil on a Wolfcamp drillstem test from 9824 to 984, yielding 385 feet of oil and 630 feet of mud with 80 percent oil. Gas surfaced in 10 minutes, initial 91 000 cubic feet daily, later 71 300. No water. Location miles northwest of Midland near section 34 block 40 T-1-S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Oil Corporations No
Scharbauer
Midland
Andrews Project Is Flowing Oil Near White Eagle
The Argo wildcat 14 miles southwest of Andrews is pumping oil after being flowed back to 9040 feet. Initial swabbing yielded four barrels per hour, then acidizing and fracking increased output, later fluctuating with oil and water production. Current flow stands at four barrels per hour through a 16 64th inch choke with tubing pressure at 200 pounds. Location: 660 feet from the south and east lines of Section 14, block A-411, PSL Survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Eagle Oil Co
Argo
Wildcat
Andrews
PSL
Waiting On Cement Superior's No 1 Shannon
In Crockett County the well reached 8615 feet total depth after being plugged back to 6704 feet. Swabbed three hours, recovered 19 barrels of oil with gravity 30. Installed 7 inch casing at 6704 feet with 100 sacks and awaiting cement.
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Superior
Shannon
Crockett County
Testing In Borden Tennessee Gas Transmission
Testing in Borden County continued today from perforations 8240-52 and 8215-33 by Fambrough wildcat Bor den County. Swabbed eight hours and recovered 44.84 barrels of oil and 1.76 barrels of basic sediment and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. No. 1 Fambrough
Wildcat
Borden County
Creomulsion Advertises Cough Cure
An advertising pitch warns that chronic bronchitis may follow untreated coughs and chest colds and touts Creomulsion as a potent non narcotic remedy. It claims the medicine loosens germ laden phlegm and soothes inflamed bronchial membranes using beechwood creosote and other ingredients.
Dawson Project Gauges More Oil
Dawson County reports No 1 H E Wells as new strike in west central Dawson County with 372 barrels in first ten hours of potential test. The Devonian zone produced through a 12 64 inch choke with gravity 37 and gas oil ratio 20 to 1. 24 hour potential test to be calculated. Location details note Labor 30 League 4 Mungerville Subdivision Taylor County School Land Survey two miles southwest of Mungerville.
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Labor
Mungerville
Taylor County School Land Survey
Rhodes Services Held for Midland Oil Operator
Funeral services were held for W. Harry Rhodes 50, Midland independent oil operator. He died Sunday morning of a heart attack at Young Medical Center in Sweetwater where he and his family were attending the Shrine Fall Ceremonial. he was stricken in his hotel room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
W. Harry Rhodes
Midland Independent Oil Operator
Young Medical Center
Sweetwater
Rhodes
Fisher Potential Texas Crude No 1 Smau ley Well
Fisher County reports a wildcat well named Fisher Potential Texas Crude No 1 Smau ley with an estimated 53.46 barrels per day and 10 percent water. The well shows 24 to 64 inch choke, tubing pressure 35, casing packet, GOR 1678-1 and gravity 38.5 from perforations at 4998 to 5008 feet.
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Texas Crude Et al No
Smauley
Wildcat
Fisher County
GOR
San Antonio USDA Livestock Reports Cattle Hogs Prices
San Antonio livestock summary reports cattle sales opening steady with steers and yearlings largely unchanged. Cows steady, bulls firm, stockers little changed, calves 17 to 19 for good stock, feeders 15 to 16. Utility cows 10 to 11, canners 7 to 10. Hogs opened 25 to 50 lower, small lots 180 to 250 pounds. Dow Jones averages listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
USDA
Oil and Gas Players Record Deep Drilling Totals in Texas Fields
Multiple operators report deep wells with bottom depths ranging from about 4,690 to 18,126 feet across fields in Andrews Dethi Taylor, Ector Ada and nearby areas. Drilling notes show cementing waits, logs, and stem tests, with figures for lime shale and dolomite intervals and water or mud depths encountered. Names include Gulf Cowden, Texaco State, Southland Royalty, and Craw Crockett Ohio among others, with several wells awaiting testing and cement completion.
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CRANE
Evans
Peyton
Gulf
Cowden
Gulf 1
Edwards
Liedtke and Liedtke
Texas Pees Syndicate
Basin gas drilling summaries show depths across many operators
Basin well listings detail depths reached by operators such as Cities Service, Husky, Texas Pacific, and Shell across Midland Reagan and Pecos regions. Reported measurements include casings set near several thousand feet, drillstem tests, and oil or gas indicators in lime, shale, anhydrite, and dolomite formations with depths ranging from about 2,600 to over 12,000 feet.
Chaves Project Tests Intex No 126 Oil well result
Intex No 126 wildcat in Chaves County New Mexico swabbed 148 barrels of oil and 278 barrels of water from depths 1428 to 1439 feet in a 22 hour test. Testing continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Intex No
Federal
Chaves County
N. M
Wildcat
Crude Oil Stocks Rise Across Nation in Late November
The Interior Department reported crude oil stocks for the week ending Nov 26 at 257,739,000 barrels, up 2.2 million from the prior week. Texas held 121,176,000 barrels, down 1,513,000. California 26,775,000 up 501,000. Louisiana 16,745,000 up 76,000. Oklahoma 22,205,000 up 588,000. Kansas 7,600,000 down 246,000.
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Washington
Interior Department
Texas
California
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Kansas
Well Completions Ahead Of Rate In 1954
Tulsa special report notes weekly well completions totaling 1 106 for the period ending November 26. The Oil and Gas Journal cites 52 039 completions for the year, up from 48 116 last year. Wildcat completions reached 241 for the week, 11 154 year to date versus 10 052 last year. Forty one new oil fields were found, plus three distillate, six gas and 191 dry holes across several states including Arkansas California Colorado Kansas Louisiana Nebraska New Mexico Oklahoma Ohio Texas and West Virginia.
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Tulsa
Oil! ‘and Gas Journal
Wildcat
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Kansas
Louisiana
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Ohio
Texas
West Virginia
Income Reported by Penn-Texas Corp Nine Months
New York based Penn-Texas Corp. reported nine months net income of 769325 dollars. The figure reflects the companys earnings for the period ending this month.
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New York
Penn - Texas Corp
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Ector
Borden
Vicki VapoRub
VapoRub
Yiicks
Vaporus
Dawson
Dow-Jones
Salerada Pete
Arican Airlines
Ereetaees
American Tele & Tele
Anderson-Prichard Oil
Agis
Ashland Oil
Ewenenarane
Atlantic
Bethlsham Steel
Chryster Corp
iCities
Continental Oil
du Pont
Eastman Kodak
el Paso Natural Gas Ayt Foremost Dairies
Freeport
General Electric
Asa Evesens
General Motors
Gulf Oj
Evaseeeene
Halliburton Eeenens
Omar
Houston Oil
Socony-Var
Standard of
Jersey
Indiana
Texas Oo Aeeane 119 Texas Gulf “Prod, Teas Aee 4314 Texas Pacific Land Trust
Texas Utilities
Tidewater
Union Oil of
Calif
Neha
United States
Ste
Warren Pete
Seowersten
Woodley Pete
Weere
Ras
Beaver Lodge Oil
Black Siralls & Bryson
Canadian Delhi
Steeee
Delhi Oi
Deweeweeenares
Ed Fargo
Frigikat Corp A
Fritz Glitch Beeen
General American Oil
General Gas
Great Plains
South Shore Oil
Southern Union Gas Anes
Texas City Chemical
Texas Eastern
Weatbrook Thompson Oenee
Western Natural Gas
White Canyon Uranian Eee
White Eagle Oil
Dethi Taylor
Duesse
Superior Rerceenty
Humble
Shell and Cities Service
King
Texaco
Amerada
Cates
Southland Royalty
Higginbotham
Cochran
Hamon
Thompson
Texas Crude
Boyd
Crockett — Ohio
Ada
Adam Ratliff
Goldsmith
Sunray
GAMES
Bankiine
Hudesn
Cities Service
Corrigan
Husky and
Sinclair
Jines
Jenkins
Kent
Martin — Chambers and Kennedy
University
Hendrickson
Floyd
Husky
Asken
Mitchell
Pecos
Hunt
Elsihere
Bexas
Delormite
Gilu
Reagan
White Eagle i Walters
UPTON
Texas Pacific
Wilshire
Peck
WARD
Marston
Winkler
Shell
Phillips
McCabe
Yoakum — Gulf
Hearne Stuart
Murchison and
Mallory
Cranson
Southland
Chaves
Southwestern Securities Company
Philips Ltds
Cell Continentel
Odense
SEARS
Pheus
Fea
Montai
Gam
Lance Plumbing & Heating Contractors
WEST
Western
Asies
J. L. Shipman
N. Lee
W. C. Sanders Et
Red Bluff Lumber Co
O.S
Redwell
Kk & Tm
Bau
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