The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-09-08
BIG BOYCE OIL
WELL A PUZZLE
GUSHER FLOWING THOUSANDS
OF BARRELS OF MIXED OIL
AND WATER IN "a HOURS
Conceded to be Best Well I'm the SUN.
burst-Kevin Field to Date, but the
Exact Amount of OIL i'm Flow I'm.
determined; Five to Ten Million
Feet of Gas Daily.

determined; Five to Ten Million
Feet of Gas Daily.
A week after being brought in,
opinions of practical oil men of the
estimated production of the Sunburst
Boyce we'll ON section 1862 w. still
showed great variation, according to
reports from Shelby.
Dorsey Hager, vice president in
charge of operation for the Sunburst,
estimated that the we'll is producing
1000 barrels of water and q tenth
of that of oil. Charles Emmons, q
pioneer geologist in the field, be-
lieved it was 5000 barrels of water
and $50 barrels of oil day. From
the Shelby offices of the Ohio Oil
company, the estimate was placed at
there were a great variety of esti-
mates, running as high as $4,000 bar
rels of sulphur water, with varying
proportions of oil estimated.
In the field there was a general
tendency to accept figures approx
mating those of Hager and Emmons
Is run into tanks and accurate meas
can not be proven.
Hits Top of Derrick
Although the fluid carries only a
proportion of oil, the we'll presents
to the uninitiated all Of the spectacle
OF big gusher, it was reported. The
flow is In heads. For half minute,
perhaps, it hits about the top of the
tool house, a distance of 10 or IL
60
sprays high over the derrick. This
is repeated continually. The fluid
was being ditched to low places,
where reservoirs are formed. In a
coulee on the east side of the we'll,
a reservoir is full and work of ditch
ing it off to other large reservoirs
was being begun. In some places
where the fluid was standing deep
est, the oil on top was said to be in
the neighborhood of a foot thick.
The oil is of the same quality as the
Harmon.
Probably the best feature of the
new we'll is the tremendous gas flow,
easily the best in the field. 1t was
estimated variously at from $780,
900 to 100000 cubic feet and the
figures most generally accepted were
between 100000 and 100000 Gu
bic feet. Geologist Emmons said that
he believed it to be a wet gas of good
quality.
High Pressure Means Much
The most pessimistic of oil men
united in the belief that the finding
of the high gas and water pressure
will mean much in the DEVELOPMENT
of the field and is probably the most
important point yet reached in the
fields history.
The Fulton we'll on section 1-34-2
w. resumed drilling last week, after
being closed down to replace two
flues in the boiler. The hole was at
1,425 feet. Since drilling is in hard
formation, only about 10 feet can be
made by tower.
To Bail California
| The California landed its pipe at
the sand in its we'll on section $685.
2 w. and bailing test is expected.
On its Morton we'll in section 1892
w., the string of pipe is being run
and the lost we'll hook fished out and
drilling was expected to resume i'm
mediately.
The Three-In-One on section 1885,
/ w., which has been held up for
some time for lack of equipment for
Its red roller bits, bailed a consid-
cradle amount OF oil last week. The
Troy-Sweetgrass also bailed a guam
tity of oil and is understood to be
cleaning out to make test. Contin-
uance of the hole is now being de-
bated by company officials, it was
said.
The pump placed ON the Ohio Han
non we'll in section 26-36-2 w. re-
suited in pumping so barrels in nine
hours, 1t was reported.
Lumber for the Big West rig on
section 6-34-1 W., delayed for three
weeks, has arrived and the rig is now
being built. The string of tools Il
already on the ground.