The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-08
SUNBURST WELL
PROVES PRODUCER
PUMP SHOWS 800 BARRELS
STRIKE MADE AT 1850 FIT.
SECOND SAND
(Great Falls Tribune)

(Great Falls Tribune)
With an estimated production OF
the present showing of not less thar
100 barrels a day, the Sunburst No
well of the Sunburst Oil and Ga.
Company, drilling on the southeas
quarter of the southwest quarter OF
section "a, township 36 north, range
2 west, came in at 2:30 Monday
afternoon, at 1850 feet, according
to report from Shelby, made by
Dorsey Hager, vice president in
charge of operation.
Production in Kootenai
At 80 in the afternoon when the
officers left the well for Shelby, the
oil had risen in the well 300 feet in
the hour and was still rising. The
production is in the second sand of
the Kootenai, according to Mr.. Hager
and opens a new horizon if produc-
ton in the field above the Campbell
well. There was heavy flow of rich
gas when the sands were first reach
ed, Mr.. Hager estimated it at more
than 1000 feet Drilling through
this tight sand, thin hard cap rock
was penetrated and the lower sand
containing the oil was penetrated
about six feet, or virtually Is feet
below the point where the gas was
encountered.
Both aIr. Hager and L. C. Steven
son, the originator and promoter of
the Sunburst Oil & Gas, were present
at the well at the time it came in.
Drilled in Is Days
Mr.. Hager's estimate of 100 bar
rels a day was considered conserva-
tive by other oil men who visited the
we'll Brought in in 16 days of act
ual drilling, the strike in the Sun
burst well produces tremendous
on oil men in Great Falls.
In it's position six miles east and two
miles north of the Gordon Campbell
Kelvin syndicate well, on section 16,
township 35 north, range 8 west, it
is regarded as proving from two to
three sections of land, and giving
Indication that the vin-Sunburst
field may prove the largest in the
United States and perhaps in the
world as well as making of great i'm
oortance the numerous smaller struc-
,ures on the Sweetgrass arch.
Basing his Judgment on the results |
obtained by the Troy-SweetGrass Oil
drilling in section 21, town
hip 35 north, range 1 west, Mr..
lager estimated that the producing
ands would be from 80 to 40 feet
hick. Mr.. Hager said that drilling
will stop and casing run down to
reduction. Plans for carrying the
rude to railways for the market will
e made in a few days, he said.
With the sand penetrated only six
eet, oil men felt that deeper pen
tration might increase the oil flow
18th a possibility of pressure sniff
lent to force it over the casing.
Later-Tests 300 Barrels
After five and a quarter hours
ailing, the Sunburst No. well of the
Oil & Gas company brought
in the -Sunburst field Mon
ay. had placed 100 barrels in the
inks when the bailing closed Tues i
ay afternoon, according to report S
'om Dorsey Hager, vice president in a
large of operation, received by tele c
none from Shelby Monday night. n
On the basis of the bailing test, Mr.. /
ager said that it was a 800 barrel 0
day we'll on conservative esti- o
ate and that improved conditions Il
Ill, in his opinion, better that mark. 81
1ere is now $40 feet of open hole n
ID at the time bailing was stopped d
ere was 40 feet of cave-in. The oil tt
ood $50 feet in the 1850 feet of a.
lie Tuesday morning when bailing tt
IS started and, at the end of the 81
e and quarter hour run, was at SC
o feet. The we'll is drilled between tn
z and three feet deep into the oil
oducing sand, Mr.. Hager said. iof
Further bailing operations were fr
,pped to run down s u Inch casing de
the top rock, which will be done OF
lay, following which the well will pc
drilled farther into the sand and cf
new bailing test run, probably on Gu
ednesday. Mr.. Hager said that there re
S good chance that the well may co
W after the sand is drilled deeper. an