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Pecos Enterprise

Location

Pecos, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 31, 1977

Page

7

Oil roundups report multiple wildcat drills in Texas

The field notes list several wells in Winkler and Pecos counties. Projects include No. 1 Dull Knife in Winkler 22 500 feet deep for gas near Kermit, and No. 2 17 Haley Unit for Silurian gas in Evetts field. Gulf Oil finishes Fusselman gas discovery with 46 million cu ft daily, plus other recompletions and tests across Pecos and Ward counties.

Evetts Winkler Kermit Exxon Evetts Field Gulf Oil Corp T.B. Pruitt, Et al Ward County Fusselman Gas Discovery Vermejo Fusselman and Ellenburger W&nw Barstow Hilliard Oil & Gas, Inc Midland Sealy-Smith G&mmb&a Pecos County Costa Resources, Inc Dallas Skua, Inc North Pecos Imperial H&gn Middle Clear Fork Homer Olsen Jr el Cinco Shell Oil Co McCamey Monsanto Co Atkinson-Bunger Pecos Fort Stockton Grey Ranch Wolfcamp T&stl Mobil Oil Corp State-Houston County Timber Co Brooklaw Girvin Four C Oil & Gas Corp Sibley H&tc Tops San Andres Glorieta Clear Fork Tubb Cleark Fork Texaco Inc J.J. Eaton Yates Oil T.C.L H&tc Survey Exxon Corp Comanchee Creek Queen Phillips Petroleum Co Strawn Coates

Drilling Rigs Active in Basin Reach 302

The Friday survey by Reed Drilling Equipment counts 302 rigs in operation in the Permian Basin last week, up from 294 two weeks earlier. Year over year, 2025 activities total 82 more rigs than the prior year. Pecos County leads with 27 rigs, followed by Lea County New Mexico with 26 and Eddy County New Mexico with 21. Ward County reports 13 rigs and Ector County 12.

Permian Basin Reed Drilling Equipment Pecos County Lea County N.M Eddy County Ward County Ector County Dickens Winkler Ector Yoakum A Eddy Edwards

West Texans weigh how to curb federal growth

Texas congressman Richard C. White reports West Texas views on President Carter’s plan to push federal reorganization. Congress would review a 60 day submission window with a three plan limit and single subject rule, shaping a future energy agency consolidation into one super agency.

Richard C. White 16Th Texas West Texas Congress President Carter Carter Senate House Energy Agency Energy Research and Development Administration Federal Energy Agency Federal Power Commission

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