Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-27
THOROUGH
TEST OF LOUIS
WELL-JACKSON
Is Now Making a Barrel OF Oh
an Hour: Harmon Well Holds
Operators Interest.

The Louis Oil company well on sec
| ton 14-35-3 W. under the present
conditions is q from 10 TO 1I-harrei
well and is making about a barrel of oil
an hour and probably less than a bar
rel and a half a day of sulphur water,
according to r. p. Jackson, a member
of the company. who returned to Great
Falls Wednesday night.
Dividing interests Of oil men of the
field with the Louis and Homestake
operations, Jackson said, was the fact
! that the Ohio Harmon well. drilling on
section 26-36-2 w. had obtained oil
showings in the sand producing gas In
the Sunburst producer. better than the
| showings the Ohio Riebe and Home
stake had in the horizon of Sunburst
production.
Believe Pool Extends North
The gas sand was struck in the Sun
! burst at 1855 feet and Jackson re-
ported that it was struck by the Han
non well at only slighter lower struc-
%turally. The fact that good oil show
ings were encountered here was beng
interpreted in the field, he said. to
mean that the oil pool may extend to
the north and may be of even greater
production than is now anticipated:
The slight difference in structural level
and the possibility that this might NEAR
a broad area Of production, he said.
The Harmon well is more than a mile
northeast of the Sunburst producer.
Jackson reported the Louis well to
be at a depth of approximately !,SV
feet and said that it was his OPINION
that the Campbell horizon had not yet
been reached. due to t~hickening of the
formations. Drilling was in what he
described as a limeIsand-s haie and De
| said that the oil was coming from a
! soft strata in this formation.
Believes 1t a Good Well
He said that some of the men at
the well were of the opinion that the
Campbell horizon had been reached
but that. he believed this was yet to
be struck. Showing the thickening OF
| the formations in this well compared
with that of CampbeI's, he pointed
ont that the gas sand in the Camp
hell well was but 10 feet thick and
in the Louis well was SO feet through
He said that he was confident that
| shooting the oil producing formation
would give a good we'll. =,
The drilling showed saturation with
oil for 10 hours prior to the time we
got a flow" he said. THAT means
that there is from 20 to SO feet in
! this saturated condition. have seer
wells in similar formation with less
favorable flow of oil make 100 barre
wells. We are feeling much encourag
ed by the results of the we'll. We are
| continuing drilling and will go to the
Madison, estimated by Gordon Comp
bell at 200 feet at this point, II nee
essary.
Not the Madison Lime. Belief
II know that this lime we are now
in is not the Madison and feel conf
dent that further drilling will opeI
up a sand where good production vii
reward us. The oil we have now Is
similar TO that in the Campbell we'll
Jackson said hat the drilling hac
proceeded some 100 feet through the
lime-sand- shale formation at the time
he left the well.
Tuesday at midnight, Jackson said
the well had 100 feet of liquid in it
The bailer was run to the bottom OF
the hole and brought up only a small
quantity of oil. He said he inter
preted this to mean that there was al
the least calculation 100 feet Of oil
and probably but a small quantity OF
water. He said that the seepage OF
| sulphur water was negligible and moi
| sufficient to drill with.