Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
AMERICAN OILFIELOS
FINISHES TWO WELLS
Doheny Company Now Has Nine
Producers and 1,250,000
Barrels in Storage

TAFT. Nov 20.-The American Oil
fields has finished wells Nos. 60 and
81, on the south line of the northeast
quarter of section &c. 8-22 ana mas
them on the pump and flowing. They
are said to be good for about 25O bar
rels each and improving as the sand
is cleared from the holes.
The American has eleven wells on
production, of which nine are pump
ing. The company has 1,25O,OO0 barrels
in storage on the property. There are
eight 55 900 barrel steel tanks full and
four more building, besides 500, 900 bar
rels are stored in cement Hned
reservoir and a 100000 barrel cement
reservoir is being built on section 20,
31-23. When this is finished the big
/, 800, ,000- barrel earthen reservoir in
the edge of the hills on the south end
of 36 will be abandoned, the loss from
such storage being so great that the
company cannot afford to use it, even
temporarily.
The American is drilling four wells
on 36 and rigging up for eight more.
Inasmuc.l as the big wells have fallen
off in their production, it is probable
that four strings Of tools will be run
all the time.
The day of the earthen sump hole is
passing Operators, alarmed at the
enormous loss by seepage of the light
oils produced in this field, will use ce-
ment freely hereafter, lining all sump
holes One operator estimates the
loss in the Midway and Maricopa dis
tricts at 25 per cent of the whole He
had occasion recently to shut down
one well for two days. The receiving
tanks being full, the oil was left stand
ing in the sump hole, and he declares
that it went down foot and half in
that time from evaporation and seep-
age. Unlike water, which swells the
soil and cracks seepage, oil opens the
dirt in cracks, through which the oil
percolates.
GLOBE FINISHES WELL
The Globe Exploration company,
which succeeded Yancy, on section 10,
31-22, has recently finished well No.
in t, e heavy oil sapu. The we'll is on
the pump and is accredited with a
daily production of 200 barrels of IS
gravity oil. The company has three
other wells on the beam and is selling
to the Standard.
1t is the intention of the company
to put the next well down to a second
and light oil sand believed to underIie
the country. Well No. l, which was
drilled by Yancy as a discovery well,
belongs to the Refining and Producing
company, which took over the Yancy
was made some months ago.
The United Oil company is still try
ing to get well No. on the Midway
property farther down into the sand.
Loose boulders above, which have
worked down between the collars of
the casing retard the work. The well
is some ninety feet in the sand, with
heavy head of gas. and is flowing
between the castings. It is in the north
west corner of the property. .
The Fox Oil company has shut off
the water in well No. 2, on the south
line of the southeast quarter of sec
tion 15, 31-22, at 1900 feet, and will go
ahead for the second sand, which is
believed to contain oil of light gravity.
This is the farthest northwest of
any we'll to seek the. second sand, and
the result will be watched with in
terest by operators in that section Of
the North Midway field