Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-02
September Field Operations.

sylvania oil made gain OF ABOUT
$50 barrels In September, both
Northwestern Ohio and Indiana
registered a decrease. There was
a large decline In wells completed
In both the Pennsylvania and Tren'
ton Rock fields, while new opera
lions on the whole made small
increase. The Buckeye fields re-
corded large decrease In the num-
Der of wells drilling.
There has been no change In the
general situation for a number OF
months past. Operators are doing
their best to increase the supply OF
high grade petroleum, but the re-
suits of the drill have thus far had
but slight effect In bridging the
difference between demand and
supply. The advance of six cents
barrel In the price of Pennsylvania
oil came to late In the month to
have any effect on field develop
mentS.
September completed fewer wells
than August, which so far holds the
record of wells completed for the
current year and August was ahead
of July, both In wells completed
and new production. July COM
pleted fewer wells than June and
there was a considerable drop In
the amount of the new production.
Over 2, 100 rigs and drilling wells
were under way In the New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio
and Indiana fields at the close OF
September, and new wells through
out the month were completed at
the rate Of 81 every "a hours, or
one nearly every 80 minutes.
Wells completed In the sections
producing Pennsylvania oil In Sep.
TENDER were 81 less than In August
while the gain In new production
was ass barrels. At the same time
there " As a dlop of 1903 wells com.
pleted in the Trenton Rock oil
field and a decline of 55S barrels In
the new production. 1t brought
about a general decrease for both
fields of 135 wells ard 800 barrels
new production. In spite Of the
slight increase In the yield of the
new wells the runs of Pennsylvania
oil for September are unusually
small, showing that the wells In thl
older sections of the field are I'm
able to maintain the present supply
without a continual accession OF
new production.
The scarcity of new territory
continues to be the general COM
plant, although there Is bare
possibility of large addition to the
productive area through the rece:t
discovery near Milton, in Cabell
county. This strike has attracted
considerable attention. but matters
In that section are In a waiting atti-
tude and operators appear In no
haste to test the surrounding terri
tory. The we'll Is In an entirely
new part of the field, although
numerous tests have been made in
that vicinity and turned out to be
failures. The new strike may 60
the same way of Its predecessors,
and 1t may also open up a new
source of our petroleum supply.
The districts producing Penn
sylvania all completed SI4 wells
In September, including 15s busters
and 43 gassers. The rigs made a
gain OF 81, while wells drilling de.
clined 81, making net gain of 20
In new work. Compared with
September year ago, there was a
gain of 81 In wells completed and a
decline of 1857 barrels In the new
production. In August $40 new
wells were completed, and of this
number s. were gassers and 1853
were reproductive of either gas or
oil. The rigs declined 40 and the
wells drilling made gain of 81.
Wells completed decreased So and
new production 554 barrels In July;
at the same time there was de-
crease of 80 In the number OF dry
holes. On the other hand. rigs
Increased 80 aud wells drilling IS
during the mouth, making a net
gain Of 90 In new work. The June
increase in wells completed In the
PENNSYLVANIA field was I24 and In
new production $40 barrels.
In the Lima oil fields of North
western Ohio and Indiana there
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