Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-10-03
Is the Blackwell Producing Sand the
BartleSVille or the Mississippi Lime?

/ of the Bartlesyille, but nevertheless he
thinks that the ., $50 is a stray, posi-
sibly somewhere between here and
the east side of the state connecting
with it, which will be picked up
somewhere as a big oil producer. He
is j. Fl. Wentz, field nan for the
Southern and Kay Il KiOwa com
panies.
May BE Tucker.
However, the two sands are much
alike in many ways and it is possible
that they connect i'm some part of the
territory lying east 'Of here. The
Tucker sand is found in the Usage
country east of here at about 1000
feet and is below the Bartlesville at
that point, the latter being found at
about l,775 feet. This, too, may have
some connection with one of the two
sands.
There is one thing interesting with
the drilling operations in the Black
well field, however, and that is hat
while the big production comes from
a very deep sand, the drillers get
something every few hundred feet
from the time they strike the first
shallow gas sand in the neighbOrhOod
of 440 feet on down to the 3,378-fOOt
level. Between those two sands there
are seven sands which produce gas.
These sands, for the most part, are
peculiar to the field and are not iden-
titled with any other production.
What is supposed to be the shallow
est producing sand in Oklahoma ls
lea Dewey. where there is a pro-
duction of II feet from pay at little
more than 200 feet. The next pro-
duction in that field is at $50 feet.
According to a government report re-
! Gently issued there IL "A san near Loco
In stephens county which produces
a small amount of gas at 1877 feet.
There is not a showing of oil of any
kind In that section, however. The
production at 1877 feet is hardly large
enough to be called commercial, con
sequent,y the statement that the
Dewey was the shallowest.
The gas sand which produced and Il
still producing $4,000. 600 feet with
a 1,%5S0-pound rock pressure. was
found in the Wolf well northeast Of
Blackwell at 3,313 feet. This is the
deepest sand with an only gas pro-
duction in the state. The Wolf well
also is the greatest gas well in the
Nid-CCntinent field from n number Of
different standpOints, the main one
being the great rock pressure behind
the flow. According TO reports Of
United States g~eologists,it ranks with
but one other as the greatest well in
the United States fields in hat re-
gard. This well was drilled into the
sand but s feet also, but II drilled it.
self in a little more before It could
be put under control. There was not
a showing Of any kind for oil, but II
is very likely that further on down
into the sand there would be a good
production Of oil. The formation is the
same which has produced consider
able gas and lies just over the Black
well sand In the holes already drilled.
The Duluth - Oklahoma company,
which drilled the well. would have
drilled 1t on through the sand, but II
was purchased by the officials Of the
Blackwell OIL & Gas Co. The contract,
however, called for another well TO be
drilled on the place. This is not nee
essary, however. from a test stand
point, for the j. T.. Myers well in s.
ISL west corners the Wolf and a pro-
duction in that well in the Blackwell
sand would prove up the Wolf quar-
ter. The Myers well is I'm the neigh
borhood Of 1900 feet at the present
time and having good luck with the
drilling.