San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-07
OIL COMPANY
| ITO CONSTRUCT
NEW FLOW LINE.
Mexican Seaboard to Make
S1,000,000 Worth Of
improvements.
BUILD RIVER TERMINAL.
Prepares to Take Care Of
Production in Panuco
District.
BUILD RIVER TERMINAL.
Paxpco. Vera Cruz. JAa. Con.

PaHooo, Vera Ortn, Jan. Con
struction of flow lines, pump and
booster stations and river loading ter
minal, at an estimated cost Of 81 ,00O,-
600, has been started by the Mexican
Seaboard Oil Company 10 take care OF
production in the Panuco district.
Seventeen kilometers Of 10-inch pipe
line able to handle 25,0O0 barrels daily
production, will be laid, two field pump
stations of 10000 barrels capacity each
and one booster station constructed
while a camp, steel storage of $500
barrel capacity and loading platform
and racks put up.
The camp and terminal will be on the
Panuco river in Hacienda Cacalilao,
where the Seaboard has two wells ca
pable of producing 5000 barrels daily,
closed in because of the lack of facili-
ties 10 be built. 1t is in this hacienda,
and those adjacent that the lnterna-
tional Petroleum Company, the Mexi-
can operating company, is centering Its
efforts.
To B4nId Long Line.
The main flow line, 10 kilometers
long, will run from the terminal to
well No. 6, lot 5, estimated as being
good for 5000 barrels daily production,
with pump station at the well. A branch
line 2 1-3 kilometers in length will run
from this main line TO well No. 3,
fraction 1. lot 4, estimated as being
good for 1900 barrels daily, with the
other pump station at this we'll. The
booster and heating station will be on
the main line, about Z kilometers from
the terminal. At each well, 1000
barrel storage tank will be constructed
THE boilers TO be used at the pump
stations will be of field type and to-
rether with the pipe and storage tanks,
are being moved from the light oil dis
trict where they are no longer needed
because Of the decrease in produc-
ton.
The Mexican Seaboard holds the
largest part Of Cscalilao controlled by
one company and was the first to start
operations in the hacienda. The first
well was completed January ID, being
abandoned dry at 1920 feet because Of
a crooked hole.
Have Eleven Wells.
In all, it has finished eleven wells ;
five for an estimated capacity of H.
225 barrels daily; four coming in salt
and the other two dry. The first
well. No. IA, is estimated as being good
for 1900 barrels and was the discovery
well in the hacienda. 1t was flowed
for only a few days when shut down
as the result Of legal action on the
part Of the Empire Gas and Fuel Com
pany, who are disputing the Interna-
tional title. with a final decision yet TO
be rendered by the Supreme Court.
Production from this we'll was TO go
to the Sinclair, who have contract TO
take up to 10000 barrels daily from the
Seaboard. They are getting but 500 bar
rels daily at present from a we'll in
Tanchiquen, which adjoins Cacalilao on
the south.
On well No. 16, lot is being rugged
up while locations have been made for
Nos. Is. IL, IS and 10. In Tanchi-
uuen. s 1-2-inch casing has been cement
ed on well No. 4, at a depth Of 400 feet
with. several locations additional de-
pendent on the outcome Of this test. In
Nacata, west Of Cacalilao, well No. Is
IL being rugged mp and material being
moved in on No. IA, while engineers are
working on other locations in this
holding a. well as in La Canoa which
borders Oacalilao on the east.