The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-26
Delay at Hawkeye Concrete Hits
Gas Flow; Ready Complete
Well; Gorton on Rigney
Has Trouble.
SAYS GALA BELLE Is
MAKING MORE THAN 100
Central Producers, Kechi and
Fortuna No. 5 in West Knock
at Door of Production;
To Deepen Gasser,

With the Hawkeye in the nw-ne of
6-5-9 gummed up with bum liner
in the hole and prospects for consid-
erable fishing ahead that race be-
tween the east and west sides OF
the Cement field to see which will
bring in the next well seems about
$3.50 proposition, as the Concrete,
in the se-se of 2-5-9 is changing tools
preparatory to drilling in.
The Concrete has drilled out the
cement plug with the rotary, which
plug held the eight inch at 2,246
feet When they passed through the
concrete they hit flow of gas and
Immediately shut down to switch to
standard tools. George Gorton, gen
eral manager of the Gorton trust.
controllers of the well, stated that
nc SApcStVu W iaiu liiob /" bdo Wtil
at THE Concrete, than an oiler at
about 40 feet deeper to get an oiler.
The intention is to braden-head the
gas off and use it for drilling fuel
Clean Gorton M. I.
Mr.. Gorton went--, to 'es> 'h,t
with the Concrete producing gas, the
Gorton No. 1, Wade farm in the Sc
sw of 2-5.9 and for several months a
gasser, would be cleaned out and
deepened to the oil sand. The Cor
ton No. 1 for time supplied gas to
the Oklahoma Natural pipe line con
nected with Oklahoma City, but the
corporation commission forced the
gas company to stop taking the gas
on the grounds that they were TAX
,ng too great a per cent of the wells
production When opened up some
time ago the well sprayed consider
able oil. Mr. Gorton stated that he
expects the gasser to be as good
producer as the Gala Belle when
deepened
Mr.. Gorton's conversation with res
erence to the Gala Belle No. ON
the Surbeck farm, 2-5-9 was the first
intimation of what the we'll is max
ing, since it has been put on the
pump. "The Gala Belle is making
a little better than 100 barrels
daily" said Mr. Gorton. 1T should
be making three times that and l be-
lieve it will when it is cleaned out.
We are now pumping about one third
of the time The perforated pipe is
set opposite the gas sand and we are
really about 40 feet off the bottom
of the hole
More Trouble for Gorton.
The Gorton trust hit another string !
Of hard luck at the Gopton No. /, Rig !
ney farm, in the ne.se of 1859. They |
have an underreamer stuck in the
hole which is 2,2O0 feet deep Re
ports from the Gorton office state
that there has been nothing of i'm
portance encountered to date.
Betty G No. 1, Henry farm, in the
ne-nw of 1868, is still cleaning out
in an effort to increase production.
They are running their pipe back in
the hole. The amount of production
at this we'll is not known. 1t has,
however, been flowing by heads.
other Operations.
Gorton No 2, Wade farm, in the
se-sew of 2-5-9, is drilling with a ro-
tary ait $50 feet.
Betty G No. 1, Lackey farm, in the
ue-nw of 1859, is drilling at $50 feet
with standard tools
Gala Belle No. 2, Surbeck farm,
in the sw-sw of 2-5-9, is waiting on
tools. A rotary rig is up and the
Intentions were to drill with that
machinery, but plans have been
changed and they will use the stand
ard tools.
GLADSTONE No. 1. Big Whip allos
ment, se-sw of 3-5-9, is drilling at
around 1900 with rotary.
Three Wells Threatening.
Three wells on the west side are
knocking at production depth, in ad-
dition to the Hawkeye. They are
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