The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-19
oil Development ReUiUing
Rapidly tn Northern
Oklahoma District

Rapidly m Northern
Oklahoma District
pONCA CITY, Nov. ie.-Thc
| northern oklahoma fields are re-
ceiving their greatest attention at
he present time. This iA evidenced
here daily by the number Of OF men
who are visiting this city and tho
various pools surrounding it In
vcstigatinE conditions, buying pcrc-
age, making preparations 20 dccclop
aud otherwise starting tho bail to
rolling throughout this cutirc por-
! ton OF the Continent field. All
Indications point 10 u considerable
drilling campaign In the Immediate
PUuCu city locality In addition 20
that which Is daily increasing. in
ho wvHtcrn Usage, south Toukiwl,
Deer crock, south Ponca aud north.
crn Kay county fields
The Marland OH company has
acreage assembled Immediately west
uf this city for two ers and the
Carter OIL company viii develop as
Lease on the llnndiey farm here.
Tho Gypsy company viii dHu at
least two tests IN tho Otuc country,
south Of here. and MarlAui las
acreage Tor tests In both the puuca
ster company is now d-illi1g a test
In the extreme south Ponca city
field In the vicinity ot the lOl
ranch.
The McCsskcy. Wcntz company OF
this city has secured b'ocKs uf acre
age also In the Otoc FOR one or more
tests, Including "A lease on the eN-
tcnsivc Caspar.s clt.ls ranch, north
OF Sumner, and this same company
| has a big block recently assembled
In the district just " est Of Newkirk
ana east OF tho Dilwortn .Pcckham
ficld, The Gypsy company Is TO drii.
It's lease on the j. :. Hatchlns ranch
In the kaw Indian country
Failure Of Gus Field.
The complete fail-duwG recently
OF the heretofore extensive gas pro-
du0tion IN tho Deer CreeK ncld OF
eastern Grant county has been
feature OF the past two weeks The
field failed suddenly. thus pruc.
iCally shutting of Enid and other
towns Co tho southwest, which ravc
been dependent upon the Deer Creek
and Blackwell fields for a supply.
Tho situation has become serious In
that area. when the supply failed
suddenly, II became necessary to vUt
or the pipeline ~ the Oklahoma
Natural Gas company To Deer Crock
TO prevent the low pressure from the
main line flowing back into the Deer
Creek wells
The Deer Greek wells came in last
summer with an unusually strong
cock pressure To The square inch and
even "A few days before the produc-
'lon failed recently. pressure "
365 pounds was recorded. Suddenly
the-wplls- went down 10 nothing. In
addition to tho Oklahoma Natural
COMPANY the Empire Gas a Fuel
Co, f. just completing u Ees line
from the Deer Creek wells to con
meet with It's main line into Kansas
at "A point just north OF Dilworth
This company has expected to get "A
big amount OF the gas required for
Kansas towns and Kansas City, Mo.
from that district
The gas failure has had the effect
also OF cutting down the flow of oil
from producing wells. and tho entire
situation ia such that efforts are he
Ing made to drill gas wells deeper
and also to hasten work on other
tests. The discovery well In that
field OF the Western States company
Is heing deepened 20 the SWagyurt
oil sand, II has been "A profitable
gusscr for over n year, The Swag-
gart we'll where this sand was dis
covered. has not hecn flowing oil 10
any extent since the gas failure. II
was deopcncd some to get more gas
n possible. but without results The
hole has been FUN OF oil. but with
out sufficient gas To make II flow
Tho wells now being drilled on
the stewart aud Lane farms. are
being rushed an order to get an ad-
ditiuual gas supply n possible, and Il
Is reported that three more wells are
tu he drilled ON the Martin farm, two
by the Blackwell Oh n Gas Co. and
one by Shonwald nd associates,
Three additional tests are anticiput-
ed in the near future, including two
I'm Dirigo township and one al the
corner OF plrigu, Numa. Lamont and
Bryan townships,
II is reported that the Elswick
test, which was given up as no good
some time ago, suddenly flowed rs
barrels 90 oil one evening recently,
Are Holding Up Well
The producing wells IN the new
field south uf Tonkawa are holding
up unusully we'll The Marland oil
companys initial well on the Smith
school land lease II flowing around
$50 barrels daily, the J. w See farm
well OF Marland around 2.a00 daily.
and the Southwestern Petroleum
well on the Frank Murray
quarter around i.000 barrels daily.
The entire district IL continuing
very active, with new locations and
now tests being started almost daily.
The Blackwell oil Il Gas Co has its
rig completed for test on the John |
Ruzek farm, in the northwest ~
l-2A-1w. and NcMaris ana asspci.
ates have made ..pi' 1n on the
rN-TunkaNa road fuur miles