The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-24

United states is 80 per cent and The
entire MIA Continent region had %
per cent oi dry holes In the year
1870. Included In the operations
covered hy ~" Dkmuig"c field eur
vey are all of the hundreds OF Wild
,u, Test. mat nave been drilled In
This field in the past fourteen years.
ana these wildcat tosiE are reflected
IN the dry hole percentages. which
would bc considcra reduced 10
only operations IN proven oil prnduc-
Iug territory were considorcd.
The townships covered by the sur
vey are townships 10 to i6 inclusive
ip ranges | ! and II, townehips 1 to
l5 inclusive In range 13, and town
ships - 10 IS inclusive In range "a.
The smallest percentage OF dry holes
is shown TN township 1i-1l, which
also has tn" largest number Of oper
ntious of any township \ total Of
lItl holes have been drilled In
tpwnship li-li, ~ which lJ7. or II
s"r cent. were dry holes In this
township 97l producing oil wells and
80 gas wells have been completed
Township i3-il. I'm which the fret
real oil well In Okmuhcc county
was brought In early I'm 1907. shows
"a total ~ 951 completed wells Of
which $50 were oil wells IS gas
wells and 246 dry holes dry hole
percentage ~ 26
In tho west side fields, township
1i-ll, In which the Fhillipsvillc.
Youngstown and Black q simon
pools are located, has a total Of 5j2
competitions 3j5 producing oil
wells, 81 gas wells and l46 dry
holcS--tho dry hole perCcntag" bc-
Ing 27 Township HI, in which
tho Doinrr pool is located. has l66
competitions to its creditor pro-
duciug oil wells gas wells and so
dry notes.-the percentage Of dry
holes being 30. In township l5-li,
whore new deep sand pools have re
Gently been discovered. thcre are 947
complctions-69G oil wells, 80 gas
wells and 221 dry holes dry hol.
percentage OF "a. The largest per
ccntagc of dry holes IL In township
1913, which has 1T complctions-
30 oil wells . gas wells and rs dry
holcs--a dry hole percentage OF 81.
In the townships covered by the
survey there are s6i sectiOns and
s64 square miles. and OF this total
there are 1875 sections, or about 15
per cent OF the total area, which
have never yet been tested. Df tho
5,715 producing wells completed IN
IA years. more than 1000 are still
| producing.
| The production record OF the ~
! townships IL available only since
January I. 1918 and In the three
/ years and "A half slncr that time the
area embraced In these townships
| has produced 43S0c,630 barrels OF
/ oil, which has been sold at ire wei
| for SI23,A7663G The production In
1918 was 6.12S.i37 barrels, which
! sold at an average price ot s2.25 per
barrel, or &l3,53S,9 asa, the produc
tion In 1919 was l1.272.S77 barrels
which sold At an average price oi
$3.50 per barrel or S2S. 1872 1877: tnc
production I'm 1920 was 17,i0l, ,3lt
barrels, which sold al an average
price II t3.15 per barrel, or s65,'
25a,935: the production in the first
six months Of 1921 was approximate
Is 100000 barrels. which sold al
an average price of Si.75 per barrel
or sl65O0. 900. premiums paid or
the better grades OF oil are figured
in the average price.
On the first day OF January, 1918
the daily average production Of the
I24 townships was 1898 barrels