Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
OIL COMPRESSOR :
INCREASES FLOW
PEERLESS LEASE INSTALLS
FIRST UNIT
MONTE cRIsTo DOUBLES OUTPUT
WITH AUXILIARY
Plant Forces Air Into Oil and Raises
1t to Surface-Bankers'
Company Completes
Four Wells

KERN RIVER, Feb. 5.-The first
unit of a large compressor plant is
being installed on the Peerless lease,
which when completed will greatly
increase the production of the fifty-siX
wells in commission. 1t consists of
an air compressor with a capacity of
1000 feet at 140 revolutions, a 90
horsepower gas engine. and a gas
producer" which generates gas from
the oil, using it for fuel. This plant
will take care of ten wells and six
more units with compressors of twice
this size are to be added. The entire
plant will cost $41, 900 installed, and in
fuel saving alone is guaranteed to pay
for itself in 4SS days. The exhaust
from the gas engines will be used to
clean the water and sand from the oil,
which now costs the company $50
day
The use of air to increase the pro-
duction of the wells is especially
adapted to the Kern River field be-
cause of the presence of water in the
oil. A current of air is forced down
pressure. into the oil at the bottom of
the well. tightening the fluid and
raising it to the surface.
The Monte Cristo lease is said to
have almost doubled its production
with the aid of air, and plants similar
to that of the Peerless are being in
stalled on Associated and other leases.
The Peerless now has a production
of $500 barrels daily, with approx
mately 1,250,000 barrels yet to deliver
on its 100000 barrels contract with
the Standard. The production of this
lease already has been sufficient to
cover the entire 100 acres with oil to
a depth of nine feet seven inches, ac-
cording to a statistical shark, and but
five wells of all those drilled. sixty
one in number, have been abandoned.
The Bankers company, on 28-2S-2S.
claims a state record in that it has
finished four wells and is ready to
perforate two more, all work having
been done since the day after Christ
mas. These results were accomplished
by two crews.
The four completed wells are on the
pump and are making from fifty to ITO
barrels a day each. They are too new
yet to enable their rating to be set
down, but they are entirely satisfac-
tory to the company, it is said.
Some of the wells on the Lee &
Easton lease, northeast quarter sec
ton 30-2S-2S, are being deepened with
favorable results. The production of
these deepened wells in some in
stances has been doubled. This lease
was formerly known as the Heck &
w alker, ana is uUueT the SAINT HiftH-
agement as the Bald Eagle, south of 1t.
The Enos OH company, section
6-2S-2S, has finished four new wells
since the first of the year. Ten wells
have been drilled during the past year
which have a production Of from forty
to sixty barrels each. The average
depth of the drilling is 1925 feet.
Large shipments by tank cars are
being sent south from this field by the
Standard, presumably to the Salt Lake
railroad which according to all ac-
counts is finding it hard to keep itself
supplied with fuel. The southern fields
of the state are being drawn upon to
such an extent by the natural business
expansion of that rapidly growing sec
ton that the local oil is insufficient to
meet the demand, Notwithstanding
the utmost efforts of operators to
maintain and increase production.
The Twist lease, section 19-2S-2S, has
completed wells No. 8 and at depth
of 100 feet, which have a daily spro-
duction of fifty barrels each.
Well No. 10 of the Kern Oil COM
pany has been finished at a depth of
$50 feet. It is pumping twenty-five
barrels.