Oil firms plan multiple drills across West Texas fields
Weekly oil report lists Way and Mills of Midland No 116 Covington State drilling 1 mile northeast of a Reeves County gas field 13 miles south of Orla and 660 feet from section lines at 3,500 feet depth. Other wells include Gifford Mitchell & Wisembaker wildcat near Capitan in Winkler County at 3,400 feet, Exxon No 1-EC State University in Ward County at 8,000 feet, No 1-B John H Wilson step-out in Rhoda Walker Canyon field, Gulf Oil No 2 Cadenhead in Ward County with a 19,600 foot bottom, and Atlantic Richfield Agnes Backham in Reeves County with a 15,699 foot pay and 48.6 million cu ft per day potential. Adobe Oil No 1 Graham State in Reeves County has been plugged and abandoned.
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Way — Mills
Midland
Covington State
Reeves County
Orla
Gifford, Mitchell & Wisenbaker
Cheyenne (Capitan
Winkler County
Kermit
Capitan
Exxon Corp
Ward County
Soda Lake
Fusselman
EC State University
University Lands Survey
Barstow
John H. Wilson
Rhoda Walker
H&tc Survey
Pyote
Gulf Oil Corp
Gulf Oil Corp. No. 2
Cadenhead
No. 1
Candenhead
W&nw
Agnes Backham
Chapman Deep
T&p Survey
Adobe Oil Co
Graham State
Chapman
Atoka
Oria
T&st
Pecos
Block
Imperial
Hanson Corp
Alanton
Wildcat
TCRR
Fort Stockton
AMC Renault tie up reshapes US auto plans
American Motors Corp and Renault announce a linkup seen as a lifeline for AMC’s money losing car operations while Renault gains a foothold in the U S market. Analysts caution it is an engagement not a merger with doubts about long term success.
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Detroit
Mike Berlotti
American Motors Corp
Renault
Berlotti
Amcjeep
Dallas
AMC
American Motors
Arnold Levinson
Chicago
Gerald Meyers
North America
SECAR
Summit may help treaty talks between Carter and Brezhnev
Defense Secretary Harold Brown says a summit could yield final agreement on a strategic nuclear weapons treaty. He cautions there is a reasonable chance terms may be reached this year, else the Soviets would push forward with programs and the United States would need to raise its effort and spending.
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Washington
Defense
Harold Brown
Carter
Leonid Brezhnev
Brown
United States
Space shuttle engine woes threaten March flight
NASA faces engine problems that may force a schedule shift from March to June 1979 for the first manned orbital flight. Frosch testifies that the odds favor a mid 1979 launch after engine tests and a schedule reappraisal in late summer. The committee notes the problem is with high speed turbine driven components in the core engines.
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Frosch
Senate Subcommittee On Science, Technology and Space
National Research Council
NASA
U.S
Great Wall mapped across United States from Washington DC
A hypothetical 1500 mile Great Wall of China laid out on a map would stretch from Washington DC south and west past Chattanooga Memphis Shr eveport Arkansas and across Texas into New Mexico illustrating the vast distance on the continental route.
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United States
China
Washington D.C
Chattanooga
Memphis
Tenn
Shreveport
I.a
Texas
New Mexico
Gulf Oil completes second Pecos County well
Gulf Oil Corp No 1 N W Woolridge in Howe South field reaches 11 665 feet, 43 000 gallons acid used, oil gravity 39.3 degrees, GOR 818 1 with 11 barrels daily oil estimate and 14 barrels water. T.S. Taylor well in USM Queen field near Fort Stockton yields 69 barrels of 34.4 gravity oil, GOR immeasurable, tests to 3 380 feet after acid and fracture fluids. Cate IVE gas unit, Cayanosa field, reports 2.6 million cubic feet per day potential dry gas via reentry from 11 535 to 11 568 feet. Other wells and abandonments listed with locations and depths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Oil Corp
N.W. Woolridge
Howe, South
Pecos County
H&gn
Cayanosa
Gulf Oil Corp. No
T.S. Taylor
Fort Stockton
T&stl
Mobile Oil Corp
FDA Links Smoking With Birth Control Risk Notices
FDA brochures warn users that smoking while on birth control pills raises the risk of heart attack or stroke. Two studies last year linked the combination to increased heart disease risk, prompting new patient warnings distributed with the pills.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
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Way & Mills
Auto Companies
Linkup
Jeep
Europe
American Cancer Society
Jonathan Winters
ACS
Pecos Enterprise
OIL and Gas News
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Commission
Olock
SKY Diver
Country Club
Interstate 20
Ice
Gulf Oil
T&p
C.F. Lawrence & Associates, Inc
Tara
Mona
Girvin
Pacific Power
Sunnyvale
Calif
California
Hawaii
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co
Dillingham Corp
Pacific
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