The Meeker herald., 1922-01-07
RANGELY OIL FIELD RAPIDLY
DEVELOPING IN IMPORTANCE

4 The following taken from the Ver-
nal Express. relative to the Rangely
oil field. its present development and
Its possibilities, will he read with In
terest not only by those who are In
terestcd in the finding Of oil In this
section of the state, but by those who
have contributed towards the fund
raised some months ago by the Cham
bcr of Commerce for tapping this DIS
trict with IN auto and CONNER
cial roadway.
With the opening of new wells con-
stantIy by the Raven Oil and Refining
company at the Rangely oil chlds.
make them the largest producers Of
crude oil of any company operating In
Utah. While the oil wells Of this com
pany are not In Utah. they are Just
over the line In Colorado, the Raven
Oil and Refining company is financed
principally by Utah capital and is II
Utuh corporation, with headquarters
in vernal. Utah.
The Raven Oil and Refining com
pany has a long lease from the En-
erald Oil company, another Vernal cor
poration, for their oil holdings at an
gcly, which has 10 far proven to be
the hest oil field In the entire Uintah
basin.
This company, which has been op.
Grating for some time and has furnish
cd practically all of the oil and gaso-
line used In the Uintah basin for the
past three years Inns been quietly de-
veloping Its property and few people
right here Mt home, realize the extent
OF their field or what influence they
have had in reducing the cost of oil
and oil products to the consumers In
the Uintah basin. When they com
menced to sell oil and gas In Vernal
we were paying 81 cents per gallon for
gasoline shipped either from Price by
freight wagon or from Watson over
the Uintah railroad which product was
controlled by the Standard OIL. Now
gasoline is being sold for AZ cents per
gallon and is subject to market chan
gcs as prices fiuctuate.
AT the time Of the advent Of the
Raven Oil and Refining company III
this field the wise ones said II would
bc no time until the little company
would be throttled by one Of the Stand
nrl concerns, and agntn we would be
paying the high prices. That this field
would I've closed md OIL Dc Drought In
again from California. Instead we find
this company under its able MANAGE
mcnt has built large refinery, have
in storage now 5000 gallons of gaso-
line and 6OOOO gallons of kerosene mt
the plant.
capacity have been constructed at the
plant. for the storage of crude oil, and
another of 800 barrel capacity for the
storage of gasoline. The larger tanks
have n capacity of 1900 gallons each.
and the smaller 21.OOO gallons. Other
storage tanks will bc constructed.
Two years ago the Raven Oil and
hetiping company made arrangements
with the Continental OIL company
Whereby they handle the entire output
II the Raven oil concern.
Large storage tanks at vernal have
a capacity of 2O.OOO gallons. Storage
ianks are to be constructed ut .Roosc.
,clt. At the present time. ac: riding
to Manager Sownrds. trucks can deli
vcr 210O gallons to Uintnh basin points
dniiy.
The big thing, and the thing we are
most interested In, are the we'ls sur.
dying the crude product. These well.
are of varying depth and ara of vary
ing capacities also. They recently in
stalled II central pumping plant which
draws the oil from nll of the wells at
one time. instead of an independent
pump at each well.
Their daily capacity Of crude "il is
sM barrels and with new wells being
brought In ull the time this da 'iy, cap
arity will he increased. Three o; the
wells only recently increased their out
put. In the last month or three weeks
several new wells have been brouc'H in
of varying capacities Of from to 1m
burrls day.
I'rcsident Brigham says that the
now wells continually being brought
In will necessitnte their having again
to enlarge their refinery. Only last
spring they had to double the capacity
OF the plnnt to tnkc care of the out
put. THIS again will require more
trucks to handle the refined product.
The Raven Oil and Refining COM