Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-03-04
FEBRUARY REPORT
General Review of oil Fields Through
United States Gives Inter
c,tiuL Information.

The following is the editorial de-
ducuon og the on city Derrick ON it
report of AN the on fields Of th,
United States for the month 81 Feb.
ruary from the ,opyrightsd cdluol
OF that paper Monday
THE report OF operations iu the oil
fields east az the Rockies for Fchru-
airy makes better showing than did
that uf January. considering the short
month. The same number uf wells
were completed but the new pruduy-
tiou credited Go them amounts TO lt',-
SIG barrels am increase OF ] ,2Nl bar
rcls This increase rs due % an ll"Np-
barred well iu the Humhi" poo. oi
Texas Lima. Indiana, central ohio
and Kentucky also increased their
January figures for new production.
while all other divisions showed q de
cline There were more wells COM
pleted IN oklahoma ana Lima. ludi-
ana, KENTUCKY Texas and Louisiana
than IN January.
Among the competitions were 1872
dry holes and l4N gas wells Okla
homa and Kansas lead IN failures.
with the Pennsylvania district close
second West \iraUia and southeast
trD Ohio furnishing the greater NUM-
her lu this division In proportion 90
the number completed, kentucky was
the greatest loser. us OF los seven wells
four were iry one-thirS the COM
plCuons in Illinois frll IN the dust list.
Reducing the list of competitions Iy
suhtracung the failures ana gas wells.
leaves 55l productive OH wells as
against 543 i'm January. The average
initial production per well was 2i2
barrels. and I'm the previous month it
was 253 barrels.
t.it6 Wells Drilling
AT the close of February the new
work under way amounted 60 1904,
made up of ASS RIGS and l,Al6 wells
drilling The net increase over jan
uay was So This new work comes
from Texas Louisiana, Illinois and the
Pennsylvania districts. the largest in
crease being from West virginia and
southeastern ohio. Oklahoma and
Kansas show decrease of 10, and
Lima, Indiana and central west tcll
off 3 In the total
"OkhhuWa continues to bee the
leading oil state its production Tar
exceeding that OF all others combined
east of the Rocky mountains. I'm Feb
ruary oklahoma maintained It's aCtiN-
ity as In the short month 10 COM
plvttd one more we'll than I'm January
but the average was smaller, as the
new production shows q decrease OF
5,9t6 barrels from last month on
tho total lO61lO bdrruls are credited
90 Gushing, q docroaSe of about ten
thousand barrels from January. with
three moro competitions m the present
report The Crcck district gives an
t.. .s.F .H ..H
2,232 barrels moro production from
l2G new wells. only one dry hole is
reported from Cushing white 90 were
found tn The crock region. and q gas
wells. The work iu the southeastern
part Ot thc state showed utue produc-
ers for the month With now produg-
tiuu Of lO5 barrels, two dry holes and
four gasscrs.
Oklahoma Work Increases.
New work I'M oklahoma shows %
fair increase, the total being 15S bar
rcls, as against 746 at the close M
January There is dight decrease
at Gushing and AN Increase in most OF
tho other districts.
"Thc Mid-Conuuclt field. covering
oklahoma and kansas gave uu in
crease ut eight compilations in Frhru.
ury over tho previous report. with %
decrease of 5.Nli hlrrois boo new proc
uu.tun. uuc more DIZZY hole and five
ore gHs wells prD reported. There
was 70 not |uss uf sIN Boo new work at
t.' close ~ the month
THE production OF the Cushns
N.'H during February reached it's
u-Hest mark 10 is beloved that Il
.'' th. wells could have been drilled
In and aN allowed trHs Glow. THAT the
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