The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-24
The Amarillo Wen Creating
Some Interest

The McGee well on the Smith Cap
or ranch in Hutchinson county, four
and n half miles northeast OF Gulf
No. 2, struck the pay sand at 2,S25
feet last Saturday at 4:30 O'Clock In
the morning and flowed over the
derrick three times before the COM
troll head could be closed. Tho well
IL now shut In awaiting tnnkage,
and as soon az tanks can be set IL
Will be tested out. which should be
about the last of this week.
This well ls bound to create n
great deal OF interest In the north
west section OF Texas as the sand
was found at the sauo depth as that
from which the oil production was
found in the Gulf No. 2, OF the Gulf
Production company. The two sands
correlatlng within few feet OF
each other. the difference OF erosion
being taken into confederation. The
Gulf No. is located on Burke Bur
netts 100,000-acre ranch. part OF
which ranch is now under lease to
tho Gulf Production company. Hum
| bile oil company. the Texas COM
pany and w. w. silk.
The lease on tho Smith Caper
ranch adjoining the Burke Burnett
ranch In which n large number OF
Tulsa oil men are Interested, was
taken UP In October, 1918. by w. IL.
/ Holmes, upon the advice OF John
w. McGee, who did the geological
work. Mr.. McGee is well known in
| Tulsa, having been associated with
Galbreath aud Chesley in the Glenn
pool days.
! McGee was able to interest A. D.
! Mcdonald, Pouder and pomeroy, OF
Tulsa, and James ID. ward OF Col
| linsvlllc In the Smith Caper lease
to undertake the drilling of the same
along with other parties of Amarillo,
Texas.
The first well was spudded In
Juno 80, 1919. and after all kinds OF
grief and delay too numerous TO
at 46O feet. The location was
moved and the second well was
spudded In about January 1 this
year. This well was drilled to the
sand in about ninety days of actual
drilling.
The structure upon which this
well was found Is the east dome and
In locally known as the Gulf struc.
ture. while the west dome Is called
the Masterson dome. Both are on
the great major fold OF the Anna.
rillo anticline which is one of the
largest in the continent. The area
150-foot contour below the top Il
not less than a hundred square
miles and the Masterson dome l,
fully as large.
on these two domes there hal
been drilled 16 widely separated
wells that have developed about 4
billion cubic feet OF gas. which VI
, to the discovery OF oil made 1t tn
greatest potential gas field In tn
, world. The Gulf No. /, three ant
, n half miles west of No. :. was shu
! in for a gas well at 2.40O feet will
n volume OF 100000 cubic fee
, per day. But after the discover
OF oil In Gulf No. 2 In a deeper san,
! work was commenced last June L
, mud this gas off and deepen tn
we'll to the lower sands. This wei
IL now about 5000 feet deep an,
by actual gauge they claim NOR
than a hundred and sixty million
feet OF gas in sands cased off an
, mudded out, and 1t is estimated b.
persons In position to know tha
there is more than two hundre
!, million feet OF gas found in thi
well, which makes It by far tn
largest gas well ever discovered.
. The interesting fact about thi
! gas Is that rock pressure runs les
than 450 pounds per inch, beln
uniform irrespective OF depth. An
! 1t is only because of this subnor
9 mally low rock pressure that the
= are able to drill through such vol
y umes OF gas.
: Coupled with the enormous quar-
: titles or gas already developed
J. this field is an interesting and In
l. portant fact that 1t contains hig
L. percentage OF helium. The Tucl
= Trigg we'll. about twenty mil'
northwest OF Amarillo. Is said
's contain three times as much heliu
n as any gas yet discovered. Ii hi
II been officially announced throug
y the press In Texas that Secretal
u OF the Interior Fall has recommen,
~ ed the construction of a heliu
20 plant at or near Amarillo. Texa
N Coming back to the oil posslbil
ST ties OF the field. about a year al
As the first real oil aside from son
Up small showings. was struck in Il
Is Gulf No. Burnett, at 3,042 fe,
~ Th.. nil rosa N tha hnla 4 ann 10