The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-10
COMMISSION TO
RELAX RULING
Practical Field Work Indi-
Gates Need of Flexibility
in Order
CASE OF M'MAN WELL
Despite All Precautions Gas
Works Itself Down Be
low Casing

IIAI every pool, in fact every wei.
PRESENTS new problems to the ulI
wen driller and conditions which rr-u
lhllons and prescribed rules fail to up
ply IN prncticallty, was again brought
To the attention Of the state corpora
lion commission In conference win
K NJ Mcfarland, president Of the Nc
Man Oll company. aud l.. \. McGiuN
conservation agent for the commit,
sion working In the Fox Poull district
AS the Rule Stands
Section II Of the gus conservation
order Is as follows:
80 gas well shall he pprmltird iu nr.
"".' Shs ftom different levels, strands
OF '''hih al be same time lnrUuLu 90.
same string OF casing (ser g. II Il mg
ANA when gas upon beng found 3. n..
needed for immediate use the yDu.r .snu.
hr confined In its original stratum mtU
sN0h TINE as the same can be- prudu.uI
and utilized without waste. (sec g. n H
3s5l and In combining gas to It's urluIu.I
place, the mud laden fluid process ,m.I
h' uh'u unless the character uf the fuuuu
Nuu involved is sufficiently nscprtInrd f,.|
mrker method with Braden head attach
mrnt can be safely applied ana comuIrt.
~ used, und In the use OF the yIslur.
packing ana Rruden head method. srpnf
hlr strings " cu-ing shall be- run To rarn
sand ana the application of the latter
method In preference to the former -hp.
nor ID" made without notice 10 aud ,uu
sent uf the corporation commission
Used Mud-Fluid Plan
The conservation agents heretofore
have been applying the mud fluid
process to hold in the IA, found abo,,
the uII-pruducing sand.
Mcfarland contcnded. and McGuIpy
seemed To conccde. that the McMun
company had drilled two wells ,o "a
considerable depth which had brru
muddrd and they then had found 10
impossible 10 proceed from the last
gus sand 50 found on the final or obi
sand, for the reason that the formu
tIou was such that when the gas wa.
| shut Off hy mud from the top and
the bottom Of the hole Oh the uut,iI,
Of the casing, It would work Itself
I downward under the casing and thence
upward through the hole. In such man
ucr preventing further drilling In such
/ strong gas wells such as the two nm
der consideration appeared to he.
Permit Use Of Packers
The section Of the order referred l.
above permits the use of packers and
~ the caslnghe0d when formation,
are encountered as they seem To hay,
been In the two wells referred 10
The commission ordered Cousrrva
tion Agent McGmlev to supervise
third we'll now being drilled by III,
McNIan on company and to mud thi
well behind the easing for the fir,
thousand feet In order 10 protect m,
more shallow sand aud the more per
yluus formation and thereafter to per
NIT the use Of packers. When a wei
IS drilled under this combination plan
results can be- compared.
The NcMnu representatives cluiu
that if they succeed In getting N,
deep gas shut III by packers above III,
Flow n nou not blow downward an,
thence escape mp through the drilIui
hole
THE differences seems to be- that II
the l0N pool the rock, In which ,
shoulder I~ to be- made so ms to sc
casing Immediately above the last o
OH sand Is ,o soft that the gas find,
it4 way down through IT,