San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-12
NEW. WELL IS |
| COMPLETED IN
GULF C0AS7
Showing in Cuffs Wharton
Test Creates
Stir.
OUTPUT is SAME
Despite Curtailment Pro-
duction Holds to
10000 a Day. .
OUTPUT is SAME

Houston, Tex, Aug. 1f.-Creating
quite a stir, although only temporary
one, the Gulf Production Company got
| the feature of the week in the Gulf
Coast fields when its wildcat test in
Wharton county found good showing
of oil. The we'll located on the s. +.
Austin League, block IA, of the Mis-
souri, Land Company subdivision,
picked up the cap rock at AIS feet and
got a good show of oil. This find led
to rumors that new salt dome had
been uncovered in the Gulf Coast. but
officials of the Gulf declare that the
showing is nothing to get excited
over" as showings equally as favorable
are frequently encountered in wildcat
tests in that section. However
number of companies have bought pro-
lection acreage in tie vicinity of the
Gulf well.
The Gulf Production Company owns
several thousand acres in this district
and at present is moving in a heavy
rig to continue work on the test. The
we'll was drilled to its present depth
with q water well rig. The principal
indication of the oil en- which the Gulf
is making this test is sulphur water.
PRODUCTION VEGETABLES Cdinc.
Despite the fact that work has been
cut to minimum in all Coastal fields,
production in the district continues to
hold steady at figure around 10000
barrels a day with the falling off in
flush production apparently having but
little effect.
The big wells recently completed at
Hull are largely responsible for the
daily average maintaining its previous
figures and these wells give little indi-
cation of showing any appreciate de-
cline in the near future.
At Goose Creek during the week the
Gulf Production got one of the best
wells of the week in No. 10 Stateland,
workover, which is making 300 bar
rels of clean oil from depth of 3oOO
feet. The same company's No. Is
Hoffman Gaillard tested salt water at
1919 feet and has been shut down. ~
The Republic Production Company's
No. / Fisher at BARRIERS Hill got
showing of oil during the week when
core was made at 293O feet. This
well was placed on the beam at 24S4
feet, but sanded up after pumping sew
eral hours. The oil ties. d 10 gravity,
which the first heavy oil to be found
in the BARRIERS Hill field.
To Deepen Well.
The Rycade Oil Corporations No.
Hudson in the old Markham field test
ed salt water after screen had been set
at 1913 feet. Preparations are being
made to take the hole deeper.
There wasa total of ten wells COM
pleted in the Gulf Coast fields dur
ing the week, of which three were fail
ures, the producers showing COM
bined initial production of less than
1000 barrels.
At Humble the exas Company's
No. SO Stevenson, a workover, made a
75-barrel well at 2935 feet.
At Goose Creek the Crown Oil and
Refining Company's No. IL Gaillard,
workover, failed to make a producer
and has been abandoned at 1857 feet.
The Gulf Production Company's No.
23 Beaumont State, also failed to find
production and has been given up as
dry at $500 feet. The same company's
No. 10 Stateland, workover. is good
for 800 barrels at $500 feet. The sane
interests No. ga Houston Smith,
workover, is good for five barrels at
2225 feet.
In the West Columbia field the Gulf
Production Company's No. SA :" Y
Hegg is good for so barrels at 1900
| feet.
The Rycade Oil Corporations No. l
McFadden in the old Spindle Top field
failed to show for oil and has been
abandoned at 5000 feet. The No. 8
Fort Worth test of the Wilson ard
Brooch in the same field made -
barrel pumper at $50 feet. 81
At Orange the Gulf Production Com
pany's No. 8 Winfree fee made a 300
barrel producer ut 3570 feet. The
Orange Petroleum Company's No. 3
Winfree is a 150-barrel well at 1850
| feet.