Phillips Wildcat Glenna No 1 Deepens Texas Depth Record
Phillips Petroleum reports Glenna No 1 in section 28 block 101 H&TC near Fort Stockton, Texas, as a 100 million cubic feet per day gas discovery. It establishes the deepest production in Texas and the Permian Basin at about 14 500 feet, with seven offsets staking nearby. The discovery sits within a 23 000 acre full interest block and surpasses previous records set by Magnolia Petroleum and Gulf Oil in West Texas.
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Phillips Petroleum Co
Texas
Pecos County
Phillips
Fort Stockton
United Press
Bartlesville
Okla
Ellenburger
Permian
Permian Basin
Magnolia Petroleum Co
University No. 1
Block 8
Andrews County
West
New Mexico
California
Louisiana
Oklahoma
United States
Shell Oil Co
Denver Oil Co
School Land
West Texas
Gulf Oil Corp
Theo Winfield
Pecos
Odessa
Bishop Oil Incorporates Subsidiary in Canada
Incorporation papers filed in Edmonton for Canadian Bishop Oil Ltd, a Canadian subsidiary of Bishop Oil Company. Bishop operates properties in California Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Alberta. Main office is in San Francisco.
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Alta
Bishop Oil, Ltd
Bishop Oil Company
Bishop
California
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Alberta
Canada
San Francisco
Oil discovery tests in Ector Crane and Andrews counties
Texas Railroad Commission engineers study three Odessa area wells in Ector Crane and Andrews counties for discovery allowable rights and new field designations. Gulf Oil and Magnolia Petroleum present test data on G A Goldsmith et al No 712 Ector, Katie W Lee No 18 Crane, and University of Texas No 1 Andrews, with initial oil and gas readings and depths.
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Austin
Odessa
Texas Railroad Commission
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Crane
Andrews
Discovery
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Holt
Gulf Oil ‘Corp
G. A. Goldsmith
Don Walker
Gulf Petroleumngineer
John Crump
Gulf
San Angelo
Texas Co
Iperforations
Pennsylvania
Pegasus
Magatex
Ellenburger
Magnolia
University of Texas
Andrews County
W. L. Quinlan
Ellenberger
State Board of Water Engineers
Mae County
Atlantic Refining Co. barbecue and dance in Odessa
Approximately 300 employees and guests attended the 10th annual Atlantic Refining Co. barbecue and dance in Ector County Park Odessa. The Odessa District organized the outing with bingo prizes of hams, balloon giveaways for children, and entertainment led by Ervin Fewin and Stanley Palmer.
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Atlantic Refining Co
Odessa
Ector
Odessa Chuck Wagon Gang
Ervin Fewin
Stanley Palmer
Fewin
G. I. Lepley
Palmer
Odessa Girl Wins Phillips Scholarship
Odessa resident Janet Robertson daughter of Mr and Mrs E C Robertson is among 50 winners of Phillips Petroleum Co Educational Fund scholarships She qualified for the college entrance examination board test given May 17 with final selections announced Kenneth Hankins and Rosalie Sides of Odessa named as alternates.
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Janet Robertson
E. C. Robertson
Odessa
Educational Fund For Children
Phillips Petroleum Co
Kenneth M. Hankins
D. M. Hankins
Rosalie Sides
W. F. Sides
Water flooding projects profiled in Nowata County oil fields
A Bureau of Mines report details four water flooding projects in Nowata County Oklahoma. Authored by John P Powell and J E Eakin the study covers production histories equipment water treatment and results. From 1935 to 1952 water flooding produced an estimated 35 million barrels of oil in the county. The report notes early vacuum development and air and gas injection, produced under a cooperative Interior Bureau of Mines Oklahoma agreement.
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Amarillo
Nowata County
Okla
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
John P. Powell
J. &. Eakin
Bureau
Bartlesville
Nowata
State of
Oklahoma
Odessa Feels Pinch Of Big Steel Strike
Odessa steel users face widespread shortages as a 19 day old national strike disrupts shipments. Tank and tubular goods inventories shrink while fields like Spraberry trend slow. experts warn 1952 drilling goals may fail without steel allocations and mills remain idle. Foreign steel shipments rise to fill gaps.
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Odessa
Eos Steel
Hens
Warren
Washington
PAC
Japan
Germany
Belgium
America
Loving County Tops District With Four of 13 Locations
Operators in the Spraberry Trend meet in Midland to draft an 80 acre spacing plan affecting wells across Loving Midland Glasscock Ward and Tom Green Counties. A 50 operator majority supports one well per 80 acres with a July 9 meeting to finalize proposals and a Railroad Commission submission within 30 days.
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Midland
Gulf Auditorium
Odessa
Humble Building
Upton
Reason
Glasscock
Martin
Sterling
Tom Green
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Stanolind Oil and Gas Co
Tide Water Associated Oil Co
James H. Snowden and Associates
Ted Weiner and Associates
Sohio Petroleum Co
Rutter and
Midwestern Drilling Finishes Ford No. 1 Wildcat
Midwestern Drilling Co. completed its Ford No. 1 wildcat in Gaines County as a small San Andres pumper. The well yielded six barrels of 32 gravity oil with no gas or water from an open hole between 4,495 and 4,515 feet in section 5 block A-12 PSL, about four miles northeast of the Weltner Glorietta and five miles south of San Andres oil in East Hobbs.
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Midwestern Drilling Co
Gaines County
San Andres
Weltner
Odessa Fire Loss Low as Department Outperforms Most U.S. Cities
Odessa’s fire department showed high efficiency last year with 288 blazes and a total loss of 108,490 dollars, about 377 dollars per fire, well below the national average of 850 per fire. Auto fires accounted for 107 incidents, while malicious alarms were 0.4 percent of calls. New chemical extinguishing agents such as wet water fog and foam aided firefighting amid national record damage surpassing 731 million dollars.
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Odessa
United States
National Fire Protection Association
Canada
The
Association
San Antonio Airman Dies in Auto Crash
Staff Sgt. Vincent J. Staskeil age 22 of Paxi nos Pennsylvania died in a motor vehicle accident on U S 80 north of San Antonio on Saturday.
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San Antonio
Vincent J. Staskeil
Paxinos
U. S. 80
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