West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-02-17

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Monticello, KY, Feb. Io.-Re-
cent operations In. Wayne county
have confined the limits of the Sun
nybrook field. The present north
eastern limit seems to be at the
head of the Strubbe line of wells.
The extension northward appears
to be shut off by the Flanagan Nc.
of the Sun Oil company and
Wiser's we'll near by. Northeast,
Strubbe blocks himself by his No.
8, which stopped producing after
two days, and by his No. 4, which
is a paying producer, but small in
comparison to the other wells of
that field. A hope for his northeast
ern line Is revived now by the re-
turn of oil to Strubbe No. 3 This
Is the we'll that came In at 600 bar
rels day and developed power
full gas pocket, and went dry after
making 900 barrels. Some peo-
pie were entirely discouraged by
this circumstance, and were In
clined to view the prospects of Sun
nybrook and all of Wayne county
with misgivings.
Strubbe No. 3 was small we'll at
the upper level, and gas was struck,
as 1t should have been, just above
the oil at the upper level, and
again just before the oil was
reached at the second level. There
was undoubtedly third producing
level below that, because Stubbe's
No. 4, not 500 feet away, got all OF
Its Oil 200 feet below where work
was stopped on No. 3.
Here, then. Is the explanation of
the Stubbe blow out. 1t has been
settled that there have been dis
turbances throughout the southern
producing territory, and there
seems to be no doubt that the rock
Is split In places. Gas rising from
below the oil will clear we'll of Its
oil first. and dry up Its producing
seams nex.. There has been rath
er common opinion that when
Strubbe's drill opened the flow at
no feet that there was exactly T.
600 barrels of oil deposited there In
a assure, and no more. In case
there had been no tremendous gas
pressure following the collapse OF
the we'll that idea would be all
right, but will not do In view of the
circumstances.
While 1t Is not necessarily fatal to
find a dry hole any direction, or
small well In any direction from
large wells, 1t has the effect of
blocking immediate operations that
way. Strubbe himself had planned
to put his Nos. S, 6 and 7 on a dead
northeast line In climbing the hill,
and the Sun Oil company was to
have put Its No. 3 at point up the
hill to intercept the Strubbe line.
The experience In Strubbe's No. 3
and the small result of No. a have
changed all these plans. There
was another block also. Right
over the hill, In the same northeast
line, the Kentucky Union Oil COM
pany has completed a we'll that Is
dry at 800 feet. This Is about a
mile from the operations at Sunny.
brook. Strubbe himself was the
first to shift the course. He has
gone back of his Office, northwest.
with his No. S, which Is now drill
Ing.
New men with fresh hearts, will
doubtless extend the Sunnybrook
territory one of these days. New
blood will not be satisfied to peg
along on calk line the length of
two miles. Misfortunes take the
heart out of men that have them,
but the record falls lightly on the
shoulders of the man that comes
next. It Is hard for a man to look
down dry hole, and then walk
straight ahead to try his luck again.
Another fellow can do 1t much bet
ter. Il was the other fellow that
came into Powersburg, that all the
stages had abandoned because OF
two dry holes, and got we'll.
Coming back to the start again,
operations of Sunny Brook are con-
fined, for the present, by we'll rec
ords. Prospectors at present In the
field are disinclined to move to the
west of the producing strip at Sum
nybrook because the Harder &
Buchler dry hole faces them one
quarter of a mile In front of the big
producer of the Somerset Oil COM