The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-06
NICHL0s STARTS
SECOND WILDCAT
WELL NEAR CITY
TImbers Being Moved 70 Location
Northwest Of Norge; start Drill.
Ing Soon as Tools Can Be
Rugged, 10 Word.
SKIRvIN CEMENTS ON
SAND IN GAS FIELDS
o. c. w. Well Smut Down for Water;
Plan Deepen Cant and ARA
smith: Operators Favor Drill.
Ing One to Forty Acres.

In addition to his work In tho
Chickasha gas area. which he dis
covered ON July 10. J. II. Nichlos has
one wildcat going near ChIckasha
and IL building n derrick for an
other near Norge. which he expects
TO get started next week.
The new location Is in the south
east OF the southwest OF section
1i.cn.Sw. a mile and quarter north
west of Norge. Timbers will be
hauled 10 the location In the next
few days and the derrick started.
Mr.. Nichlos announced today. Tools
are TO be moved to the location M
soon rs the derrick Is completed.
It rs to be $500 foot test with
rotary tools. II Is on the Holloway
farm.
Waiting On Water Supply.
For couple OF weeks. Nichlos
has been marking time on the o.
c. w. well. mile and a half south
of Chiekasha IN section S-6n-7w. be-
cause of water shortage. A pasture
tank failed to supply sufficient water
and efforts to get a supply by dig
ging a well failed. Mr.. Nichlos
states that he perhaps will be forced
TO lay line to the city mains and
use city water.
The Nichlos company has four
producing gas wells in the field
proper and Is drilling the fifth, in
addition 10 drilling the well on the
Little Nick company's acreage. The
latter Is down about 700 feet. being
in the southeast OF section 26-5n-Sw.
The new derrick near Norge will
add but another one to the long
string OF rigs running from the very
city limits of Chickasha to point
some four miles northwest of Norge,
in the latest gas area opened by the
Sunray well in section 14-in-Sw and
where half a dozen new rigs have
been completed.
Another Well cemented.
There's another well in the gas
producing area cemented on the
sand and slated for completion
late next week. It is the Skirvin
of the southwest of the southeast of
section 23-5n-Sw. This we'll lies be-
tween the LeMaster in section "a
which Is producer with gauge of
S60OO0OO cubic feet and the Amer
ican Drilling company where they
are cemented on a good sand.
The test Of Cant and Arrasmith,
a wildcat, in section 27-6n-7w is non
productive at $500 feet, but plans
are being made by Chickasha men
to deepen the hole to 2,7OO to 5000
feet. A fund is being raised here
now to finance the proposition.
One Well to 40 Acres.
Operators in the producing gas
area are forming an agreement to
the effect that one well only be
drilled to every 40 acres, in order
to lengthen the life of the field
Some have already started this prac
tice while others have subscribed
to the idea.
Where offsets are necessary, they
will be drilled, the operators point
out, but they favor backing off or
new wells to only one well to a 40
Among those who are favoring this
method of operation are: Sinclair
company; the Nichlos company
American Oil and Refining com
pany; the Carter company; the At
lantic Oil and Producing company
the Pure Oil company; the Texas
company; the Ohio Fuel Oil com
pany; the Magnolia company; thu
Prairie; Grogan ct al; Briscoe e
al. Other operators aer expected t
join the movement.