The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-08
CAS- SHOWING IS
GROWING STRONG,
OWNERS DECLARE.
Affiliated by lowering Of Drill Stem,
Well Which Has stood for
Months, shows Symptoms
OF Cleaning Self.
DRILLERs WORRY HOW
WILL GET CASING SET
Pumping Heavy Mud Required 10
Hold II In; NlchIos 10 setting
Casing Today; LeMaste
Scheduled Set Saturday. /


Interest In the dcy.,ormcnt OF oil
and gas areas In Grady county to-
day ccntcred In q new place today,
with the possibility OF this county
having well running Wild with no
easing In the hole.
The well In question In the offset
TO the Harness well. some three
miles south OF Ninnekah. section
is-5n.7w. This well was taken
over from interests represented by
Ingleright. by Jones and Hughes
with Badgett Brothers drilling.
Workmen on the well are having all
they can do TO keep the well from
blowing In on thom, according To
Walter Jones. one of the owners OF
the Harness well and who Is inter
ested In the offset.
All day yesterday and last night
the drillers worked TO keep tile we'll
under control. Mr.. Jones stated TO.
day. He pointed out that there is
no casing In the hole and that if
the pressure did clean the hole and
set the well wild. II would be moth
ing short OF disaster, because there
would be no way TO control II.
inslerIoht Passes Sand.
Mr.. Jones stated that while In.
glerIght was in charge OF tho oper-
ations. they drilled through 30
foot gas sand.l This was picked up
at around 1000 feet II was cored
and checked. but passed up. Mr..
Jones stated. After passing the
sand, they drilled some 60 feet. max
ing the bottom OF the hole around
2100 feet. +
At that point the Ingleright inter.
ests left the well and after some
weeks. Badgett. Jones and Hughes
completed deal to reopen the hole
and finish the well. With the hole
full of mud, and having been slowed
down with boiler trouble, progress
las apparently been slow in getting
to the bottom of the hole.
Mr.. Jones stated that apparently
bridge. formed at the top OF the
sand, was broken by the drill as 1t
was lowered. Promptly he stated,
tho pressure lifted the 1000 foot
column of mud and slush up and
poured II over the top of the casing.
The pumps were started at top
speed and the mud thickened as
heavy as the pumps could carry it.
In this way, the well has been held
in check and the drillersr hope to
mud 1t in to the extent that the
drilling can be continued to the
Harness sand, which is only few
| feet deeper than the bottom of the
hole, they believe.
VIII Pass Up Gas.
1t will be necessary. Mr.. Jones
explained, to pass up the 30 foot
gas sand in this WE'LL owing to the
fact that the Inglerlght interests
drilled through the sand and some
60 feet below it, striking water be-
meath the sand When the Harness
sand is picked up, the gas is to be
cased off in this well, Jones said,
Another well, Mr. Jones believes,
stopped at the 1000 foot level and
easing set, would produce another
mammoth gas we'll 1t is a well
known fact here that Ingleright had
guards posted arodnd the well,
keep out" signs displayed promi-
netnly and that no reports OF the
progress or formations announced
publically. Just before the Ingle-
right interests left the well, Ingle-
right brought to Chickasha a core
which he said was taken from the
well and which showed salt, accord
ing to a local man to whom the
core was shown.
NichIos Setting Casing.
The Nichlos Oil and Drilling COM
pany is setting casing today in its
Farwell No. 2, in the southwest of
section 26-5n-Sw. Casing was hauled
to the location yesterday evening
and is to be run today, according
10 JOnn ID. NlcnlOS. III is uHuerStOOu
that they will cement this pipe, in
which case, several days will elapse
before the plug is drilled out and
the we'll brought in.
LeMaster, Muse ct al, being
south offset to the Nichlos No. 2,
is also to set casing on the Nichlos
gas sand. 1t is reported that they
were to have their casing at loca-
tion this afternoon. Doubtless they
will be setting casing tomorrow.