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Oil Wildcat Drilling Moves In Northwest Lea County
In Lea and Eddy counties major oil companies push wildcat tests from Lawton Oil to Skelly and Amerada. Notable drill targets include No 4 State 660 feet from section 14, and No 1 MA State near 24-11s-32e with potential barrels per day and Wolfcamp tests. The Chaves County Farm Bureau mounts a county map showing daily insect findings by Maj. James H. Sikes, entomologist, to help farmers track infestations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Oil Corporation
Lea County
Hightower
W. D. McBee
Buck Jones Drilling Company No
V. C. Gates
Eddy County
Amerada Petroleum Corporation
Moore
Wolfcamp
New Mexico Conservation Commission
Magnolia Petroleum Company
J. C. Maxwell
Denton
East Lea County
Skelly Oil Company
Mexico
Skelly
Ralph Lowe
Atlantic Refining Company
Dickinson
Sunray Oil Corporation
Maggie Caylor
Lovington Abo
Skelly No
Chaves
Chaves County
Farm Bureau
Major Sikes