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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1971
Page
10
Extensive drillstem tests and completions across Ward, Pecos, and Winkler counties outline gas and oil flows, open and calculated open flows, and recompletion plans. The report notes Barstow, Gomez Ellenburger, and Abell fields with formations from Devonian to Wolfcamp, plus reentry plans for No. 2 Rixie and other near-productions. The piece ends with a jarring non sequitur about a busy girl.
No 1 98 Caprito Atlantic Richfield Co located 5/8 mile north and west of Ward County field lines reports multiple four hour gauges. Through various chokes gas flows range from 6.867 to 13.2 million cubic feet per day with condensate and lead water. Devonian and Ellenburger zones open the field opener. later wells largely tap Ellenburger. J Keith Somerville to test J K S Clearfork gas field with No 1 Moore State. Discovery No 1 C O Hobos re entry posted 2.3 million cubic feet per day.
May 21 county by county totals list 161 active rigs overall with Pecos county at 23 units the highest drop from 27 the prior week. Midland shows 61 rigs on location followed by Reed Menard 61 and other districts. The report covers several Texas counties including Andrews Brewster and Crane noting rotaries and field activity in the Glorieta zone near Monahans and Ward County.
Gulf Oil Corp announced intention to reenter and plug back to 4204 feet at No 3 Crawar Field Unit. The passage mentions historical British witchcraft laws, noting repeal as recent as 1951 and trials under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 seven years earlier.
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