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Tidelands Drilling Planned Off Rincon Pier
Honolulu Oil Corp will move a drilling rig next month to resume development on the 80 acre Whitten lease in Ventura County tidelands off Rincon field. General Petroleum Corp shares Seacliff pier and is drilling Ferguson No 103 below 8,233 feet with multiple locations planned. In Solano County Kadane & Sons abandon a wildcat and move to Kirby Hills area for Standard-Fontana Farms No 6 after No 5 reached 6,510 feet. In Fresno County General Petroleum to drill again on a Standard Oil of California farmout near Jacalitos with target depth about 5,300 feet. In Fillmore Richfield Oil Corp stakes Community A-1 for 14,500 feet while drilling Union-Fillmore Community C No 2. Petroleographs note Union of California abandons initial wildcat on Paramount studio lot after reaching 5,339 feet.