The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-01-06
OIL INDUSTRY IN
KENTUCKY SHOWS
J B|G'B00M IN''1s|s
100000 Barrels Month Now Pro-
duced in All Fields of
State
OUTLOOK VERY BRIGHT
Operators Certain New Year Will
Bring Greater Progress

ment, and an approximate output
of 100000 barrels month, the oil
industry Of Kentucky has rapidly
grown from one shallow we'll in the
Irvine field to thousands of wells
pouring out oil to the pipe lines of
twenty-one common carriers in Ken
lucky fields.
The fact that approximately one
million barrels of oil are produced
in Kentucky monthly, represents a
S3,250,000 income to the State
monthly, with indications for big
ger production for 1920.
The development of five new fields
in Kentucky within ten months of
1919 and the discovery Of large
gas field in Eastern Kentucky are
features of activities of oil opera
tors in Kentucky.
At the beginning Of the 1919 de-
velopment, the Big Sinking pool in
Lee county in Eastern Kentucky,
was recognized as the most produc-
| tive field in Kentucky. Within six
| months a second pool in Lee county
known as. the He'll Creek section
was leased up with immediate de-
Telopment and this pool is recognize
ed as one of the best in the State.
The development of the Allen
Rarren-Warren section in Southern
| Kentucky with the counties imme-
diately adjoining, followed, and ac-
tive development of the pool has re-
suited in heavy production with
many companies in the field. The
success of this pool verifies the pre-
dictions made that the southwest
valuable as an oil-producing section.
The completion of 1000 barrel
well, credited as the largest well
east of the Mississippi. completed in
October, 1919, was made by the
Curry Oil Company. This Sec
ton has attracted thousands of op-
orators from the North and East,
particularly capitalists who are in
terested in the continued develop
ment of the field.
LlnemanS creek FOOL
The development of the Lineman's
Greek Pool in Lee County, slightly
off Big Sinking pool, is rated next
in Importance of production and flu
ture prospects. This section at
tracted the attention of oil men,
when the Middle Fork Petroleum
Company completed an initial test
well on the Bowman tract on Line
mans Creek which flowed 800 bar
rels steady production. Further
drilling on this and adjoining tracts
has resulted in numerous wells of
good production.
The Menifee county pool, opened
UP in 1919, with structure similar
to the Big Sinking pool, has become
another productive. section with
prospects for. steady output. One
operator who visited the Menifee
pool tersely described it as a "real
oil pool stating that wells with
steady production of. high grade
crude oils were veritable gold
mines" vt-- 81
Lawrence, johnson, Magoffin and
Floyd counties are coming into the
limelight as Oil producers and ex-
pert biologists state smaller pools
will be developed here which will
greatly increase the total output in
Kentucky.
The discovery of the large gas
field in Breathitt county with the
completion of several gas wells esti-
mated at 100000 cubit feet has
placed the State forward in the gas
production, and has made cities sup
piled with natural gas from the
fields, Independent of foreign gas
production. The further develop
ment of this gas field with proper
facilities for gas transportation will
be made in 1920.
Big Increase Shown.
An increase of 5,964,160 barrels
over the production of 1918 is noted
in the completed runs of the pipe |
lines from the Kentucky fields in |
the first ten months of 1919.
In January 545,059.56 barrels of |
crude oil were run from the wells in |
the Kentucky fields. In October,
769,679.93 barrels, or an increase of |
over 100000 barrels were reported |
by the twonty-one common carriers
operating pipe lines in the fields.
A total Of 7,773,812.29 barrels
for the first ten months of 1919
compares favorably with 4,035,950
barrels run from the fields in the
previous year. In 1888, there was a
total production Of Ass barrels
from the fields which fell to 1922 |
barrels in 1897.
The million barrel production
was reached in 1905 when 1,217.-
337 barrels were taken from the