The San Francisco call., 1910-06-15
Big YIELD FROM
COALINGA field
Production Reaches Total of
FOrty-five Thousand Bar
rels a Day
Large Stretch of Proven Terri
tory Still Remains to Be
Developed

The Coalinga oil fields are today pro-
ducing approximately $4,000 barrels of
petroleum day, which gives the prod
uct commercial value in excess of
$4,000 600 a year. The production is
increasing and there is every prospect
of an advance in price Until the ia
nous Lakeview gusher made it's ap-
pearance, the Coalinga district was the
heaviest producing territory in the
world Its sands are deep and con-
sistent In a big section of the terri
tory the hazard has been reduced to
a minimum. Virgin territory has been
found offering the same formations
from surface to pay sand as have been
discovered in the best portion of the
field.
PRODUCERS NUMBER 500
The present production comes from
approximately 500 wells. Some of these
wells have become famous for the
abundance of their yield. few of the
records are of interest
The Section Seven oil company
brought in well in August, 1903, and
for a period of over a year it pro-
duced at the rate of 1000 barrels a
day 1t has to its credit 100000 bar
rels and is still a good producer
The X. T. and Q. brought in two wells
in section % in 1907. and these wells
have since produced nearly 1000, 900
barrels.
The California Oilields Limited No.
% was brought in in March, 1905 The
initial production was 1900 barrels a
day. 1t has continued to yield heavily,
having a record today of approximately
100000 barrels of oil. Thus, from one
well has been taken petroleum worth
in the neighborhood of 100000.
Coalinga Pacific No. 1 on section Z
was brought ia on August I3, 1904.
1t has a record of approximately
100000 barrels of oil to its credit.
Pittsburg No. ?, now the property of
the California Oihelds Limited, flowed
in 1S months $4,000 barrels without
expense 90 the company.
STILL PRODUCING
The Lucille No. 1. completed Septem-
Der 5, 1906. has total production to
date of about 100000 barrels. Sauer
Dough No. 3 has produced nearly ]. 600
600 barrels of oil and is still producing
200 barrels a day.
The American petroleum company re-
eeives an average yield of 800 barrels
of oil day from each of % wells
drilled during the last Is months.
The Silver Tip broke loose in Sep
tember, 1903, and poured forth $4,000
barrels Of oil in - consecutive hours.
The well is now flowing 500 barrels a
day.
After early failures the first success
in the Coalinga field was In 1896, when
the Producers oil company brought in
a so barrel well.
Chanslor and Canfield and the Home
oil company soon followed and obtained
good wells producing oil of "a degrees
gravity from depths of from 500 to 1000
feet. Numerous other wells were
drilled in an endeavor to extend the
limits of this pool, but excepting IS
weiis on the property of the Home oil
and Coalinga oil companies all were
failures. 1t is probable that as MANY
as 80 dry holes. costing on an average
of $4,000 each. were drilled in this
attempt This pool is known as the
Home oil pool and today produces a
FIRST ON EAST SIDE
The next strike was made in the
year 1893 by the Independence oil com
many on section 28-19-15. on land
leased from the Hanford oil company.
This was a good well and was the first
discovery on the East Side field.
Late in 1898 the Confidence oil com
pany, which had previously drilled
three dry holes in section 25-19-14,
brought in Confidence No. /, a so bar
rel well, and shortly thereafter Conf
dence No. 2. 200 barrel we'll This
was the first strike on the West Side
field.
From these discovery wells as CEN
ters the development work was gradu-
ally extended until the present belt of
proven territory covers an area about
/ miles long and from one and half
to two and half miles wide With the
possible exception Of the North end. on
no side have the limits of the field
been defined. Oil from this district
ranges in gravity from IA degrees
Baume in the shallow West Side
wells to 341z degrees in the Home pool
The average of the West Side is about
1S degrees and Of the East Side field
about % degrees.
FIVE PIPE LINES
There are at present FIVE pipe lines
leading from Coalinga- The Standard
oil company has two, an inch and a
6 inch line extending by way of Men
dota to Richmond; the. Associated
transportation company, a s inch line
extending los miles to Monterey bay
the Associated pipe line company an s
inch rified line 1873 miles long, with a
terminal at Port Costa. and the Pro-
ducers' transportation companys an s
inch line connecting the Coalinga, Nc
Kittrick and Midway districts with
Port Hartford. The total CAPACITY of
these lines is $4,000 barrels per day,
about $4,000 barrels per day in excess
of the present daily production. The
Producers transportation company's s
line and the Associated pipe line com
pany's line have just been completed
this year and cost approximately
s2.570,0O0. The expenditure of such a
sum for transportation alone by those
thoroughly informed as to the condi-
tions Of the business. in a field which
has produced oil in large quantities for
the last 10 years is a significant fact
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