San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
Knkpahick-Lnca Get g.
Foot Sand at 1876
Feet.
MAKES IS BARRELS
Derrick Is Built for Wes-
laco Well
No.2.

The Schott pool of Webb county was
extended to the southeast nearly one
half mile last week with the coming
- In Of the Kirkpatrick-Lucas Trust
well No. 1 in the southwest corner
of the northeast quarter of Block 20
of the Ojuelos grant. The well was
finished up Tuesday and will be
placed on the pump Immediately
There is eight. feet of sand in the
well and the production is estimated
at from so to 20 barrels daily.
Casing is set in this well at q
depth of 1876. feet. Immediately be-
low the casing is eight feet of gas
sand estimated good for million
feet daily. Below the gas sand is
"a feet of gumbo and underlying the
gumbo is eight feet of oil sand, max
ing the total depth of the well 1716
feet.
W. L. Richards, Laredo geologist,
is in charge of the field work for
this company and was instrumental
in bringing this company into this
territory. 49,
The Weslaco Oil company built a
derrick Tuesday for its No. 2 well
in the Ochoa pasture partition of the
Ojuelos grant of Webb county. This
is an offset well to its No. 1 and is
located on Block AZ of the Ochoa
pasture.
The No. well is reported pump
ing around $50 barrels of oil daily.
Chico Sets Casing.
The Chico Pool Oil company SET
casing in their No. 1 well Friday
at a depth of 1852 feet. This well
is located on Block So of the Ochoa
pasture partition of the Ojuelos grant
in the upper part of the Mid-Ojuelos
structure. The well is about 1000 feet
north of the Esperanza No. 1 which
is the first producer drilled on this
tract.
The Shasta Oil company is the con.
tracing driller on this well and they
state that the plugs will be drilled
out today (Friday). 1t is likely
the well will be brought in early
this week.
The Carnahan Producing & Rein
ing company announced last week
that it would drill well No. IS or
Block 10 of the. Oiuelos grant Of
Webb county in the immediate future
the No. 81 and will also offset the
NWitherspoon wells on Block l.. iis'
The No. 81 was placed on the pump
barrels daily. o.
Try For Deep Pay.
The Witherspoon No. IL is being
drilled deeper in an effort to pick
up the high gravity sand recently
l. - Af no hot
pool by the Magnolia Petroleum com
pany in its No. -.
The Witherspoon No. Is was drilled
in late last week and encountered
salt water and it was decided to con-
tinue drilling with view of getting
deep pay. The well is located in the
southwest part of Block 1 of the
Ojuelos grant of Webb county. short
distance southeast of Miranda City.
The high gravity sand was picked
to 1917 feet The last two feet OF
sand in which drilling was stopped
is true oil sand of the brown color
and is an indication that this sand
may underlie the entire field.
The oil fraternity is much inter
ested in this test and should it pick
in the Schott pool deepened.
No. SIS On Pump.
The No. 55 of the Carnahan Pro-
ducing & Refining company which
was placed on the pump Tuesday is
making 100 barrels of oil daily. This
well was finished up last week and
stood 1900 feet in oil. 1t is an off
set to the south of the Witherspoon
No. 10. .
The No. So is in the northwest part
of Block 10 of the Ojuelos grant of
Webb county. The well is 1867 feet
deep.
The Holden No. / Of the Holden
- al. about ten miles east of Heb
bronville in Jim Hogg county resum-
ed drilling last week. Two crews are
working Work was resumed at a
depth of 1870 feet. The Holden No
] is being drilled with standard tools
and the well will be completed with.
out any further delays.
Marshall Back In Field.
George Marshall returned last week
from a vacation tour of the middle
west and upon reaching Laredo an
nounced that he would resume drill
ing in his we'll in the southeast part
VI INC l. NNSAhoA IN <@dpdld
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The Laurel No 4 was drilling We'd
nesday below 1900 feet and casing
will likely be ready to set before the
end of the week. This we'll is located
in the northwest part of Block IS of
the Ojuelos grant and is an offset
10 the Quigg No. 2 well. The Laurel
Oil company is going right along
with its DEVELOPMENT work and they
will soon have big production on
rock 6S and on Survey COS where
they now have three producing wells.
The Laurel Deep Well Oil company
is making fast hole in its deep test
on Survey 266 of Webb county lust
west Of the Carolina-Texas gas fields.
Work was resumed en- this we'll last
week Immediately following the heavy
rains and the contract depth is ex-
2ected to be reached in few weeks.
Wednesday the we'll was drilling below
200 feet.