Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
MONTHLY OIL REPORT.
There Is an All Around Decrease In
the Southwest Territory.
BUTLER AND ARMSTRONG ARE UP.
Very Little Change Ia Reported in the Other
9 Upper Country Fields
CESSATION OF WORK AT M'DoNALD

The field work of the oil operators for the
month of July makes better showing than
during the month of June. There is an in
crease of 18 In the number Of wells COM
pleted in July as against June.
In June there were only 40 wells finished
up in Allegheny and Bradford, the Middle
field, Vepango aud Clairon, and Butler and
Armstrong, and in July this was brought
down to AZ
The Southwest had liz completed wells
in June, and in July this was brought up to
131, an increase of 10.
This increase in COMPLETED wells has
brought the new production up from
s,57s barrels in June to lo.o69 barrels
in July. an t. increase nor Of .sl barrels; Sa.
come almost altogether from the upper
fields. Even with an increase in
wells in the fnm sne sssa sss
in June to s6ss in July: This ispossibly due
to the big increase in dry holes in the south
west territory.
81 dry holes in all of the fields, II of which
were in the Southwes nine in Butler and
Armstrong, three in Venango and Clarion,
two in the middle field and none in Bradford
In july there was a total of Al dry
holes, 81 Of which were in the South
west. five in Butler and Ar. Armstrong lgs
shows a decrease by one half i'll dry holes In
the upper fields, and an increase Of 100 per
cent in the Southwest.
|& Increase in ButIer and Armstrong.
Y Butler and Armstrong show up strong in
July in the matter of new production. 1t
Increased from 6l0 barrels in June to ,3s1 in
July, or an advance of 70l barrels. The
operators in these fields cleaned up "a
all T,,r, I,,,k Ir1lxy hpnn ntr,f hot
ter luck, tor in the last month they
completed only % wells and more
than doubled the new production. In July
5were dry and i'll June busters were COM
peted. The average of the productive
wells in the Butler and Armstrong districts
in June was 403a barrels. while IN July it
productive wells in all the fields for July is
70 barrels. In the southwest district the
average in June was SO barrels, and in July
it declined to 80 barrels.
Bradford, Venanao and Clarion and the
middle field i'll June was only 20 barrels, but
in July it was brought up to 1o3 barrels with
an equal number of wells completed i'll each
month.
has been general Improvement. In the
nearly all been drilled over. and during the
month OF July the operators have been
plugging away in treacherous territory, and
many of them have been unfortunate, while
others have secured only oil enough to en-
able them to get their money back in time.
The Sistersville field has done a great deal
toward holding up the Southwest, as there
have only been one or two busters finished
up in that region, and there are now more
strings of tools swinging there than in other
parts of the southwest.
There has been an all around decline in
| the number of drilling wells and rigs. The
| total decrease IS A.
| In the south west they have dropped Off
| from l79 in June to l42 in July, decline OF
| 81. This has been largely due to the cessa-
| tion of operations in tho Mcdonald pool.
There has been little change in the upper
| country in new work. In the middle field
| there has been a slight falling OF, and an
| increase in Venango and Clarion.
| REHABILITATION.