The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-07


local officer. Jake L. Mildren. These
men, In tho presence OF a number OF
interested producers are conducting
tests with a low pressure regulator at
the casing head gasoline plant OF the
Magnolia Petroleum company. The Of
ficials are endeavoring to arrive at n
solution OF the proper use OF pumps In
the field by developing an automatic
cutoff that VIII prevent the use OF the
vacuum pump. Mr.. Walker stated that
ne has the earnest cooperation OF the
producers and believes that the trouble
which has kept the field more or less
disturbed for several months will be
solved in a manner that Will meet the
requirements of the producers and give
the needed protection to all the proper
ties of the field
Mr.. Midren, who maintains head.
quarters In the field is devoting his
time chiefly to the fight against water
and is meeting with success More
than 800 wells in the field are making
some water with the oil. Some OF these
wells are being saved and some are be-
ing plugged and abandoned. The field
conditions. will improve now as more at
tention is being paid to the control OF
water, less shooting is being done and
the superintendents of the field are
organizing for the purpose of arriving
at the best plan OF work and for CO.
operation with each other. The first
regular meeting of the superintendent
will be held in this city next Saturday
night.
Producers Oil company, on Jerome
Watson in 22.4.3. had a fire which cost
the company one or more rigs and two
small tanks of oil The loss will ag-
gregate about $4,000.
The Empire Pipe Line company is
making a common carrier shipment of
about 500 barrels a day of Healdton
crude to the Standard Asphalt Re
filming company at Independence Kan
sas. This plant was recently purchas-
ed by the Doherty interests and 1t is
better equipped for the handling of
Healdton than Kansas crude and for
that reason shipments are being made
from here. The oil is being conveyed
to Ardmore through the Coline pipe
line and is loaded in tank cars here.
Lone Jack Oil company No Skid
more, on the south line of 1l.4.3, is
drilling in a sandy shale at 1870 feet
The formation from 1900 to 1945 was
lime. The six-inch casing has been run
the hole is dry and the well is in good
condition for a deep test. The same
company has begun work on its No. 1,
west in the center of the same section.
The water is being shut off to develop
an oil sand which the company believes
will make well
Czarina Oil company No. is drilling
at $50 feet on the Czarina Homer farm
in section 30-3.3
Oklahoma Colorado OIL company near
Sawyer, in Choctaw county, is drilling
at 1865 feet in redbeds. The drill is
gon through quick sands which make
drilling difficult in that county.
Empire Pine Line company has the
excavation almost completed for its
second concrete reservoir, of a capacity
of $50 900 barrels, at the Gainesville re-
finery
Kinney Oil & Refining company, on
the Hudson farm in section 18-5s-5e
near Oakland. in Marshall county, is
shut down for coal at 800 feet. This
well is to be made a 3,000-foot test
Rig construction work has been be-
gun at location No. IL, on the Kinney
Oil & Refining company in 9.4-3, and
this well will be drilled to the level of
the Simpson sand and possibly deeper.
Sinclair Gulf Oil corporation, in the
northwest corner of the Shirley Hol-
man farm in section 16-4-3. drilled to the
Simpson sand at 1925 feet and ce-
mented the casing. While the well was
waiting for the cement to set some one
placed pieces Of scrap iron in the hole
and the well is fishing at this time
Charles J. Wrightsman in section
2-4s-7w, east of Addington in jefferson
county. has abandoned his well at a
depth a little below 2500 feet. This
well was said to have been drilled upon
a fine geological structure. Whether
other tests will be made there Is not
known but it is reported that Range
Seven Oil company will drill test
short distance to the north and another
company is planning to drill to the
southeast Of the abandoned we'll
The Ardmore Refining company has
completed two 37,00O-barrel steel tanks
at it's refinery and has two other steel
tanks to build.
Jake L. Hamon No. 10 Mary Jeffer-
son, in section 3O-3-3. has been drilled
TO a depth Of 1896 feet and will be aban-
doned as a dry hole An oil sand was
reached but ii would not make a well.
Carter Oil company No l6 Rhodes, IN
24-i-3, which is the south well on the
west line of the farm, will be drilled
TO the level of the Westheimer sand
at 1900 feet The well is now drilling
at 1860 feet. Well No. Z, on the same
farm. will be abandoned at total depth
OF 1927 feet The water could not be
controlled. Well No. II, located only
so feet away, is a producer.
Simpson and others No. II. on the