San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

Burbank production is IN approx
mately 5000 barrels for the week and
slight increases are reported from a
few other fields.
Louisiana pushed herself slightly
into the limelight by big gas well
located in rank wildcat territory
about 45 or so miles south of IL,
Monroe gas field. The well is located
near Urania, in La Sale parish and
is estimated to be making between 80
and 10 million cubic feet Of gas per
day. 1t is believed that action is
soon to pick up at Cotton Valley as
seven new locations have been an
nounced recently. The Merritt well
is still making about 100 barrels pei
day by heads.
Quiet in Texas.
Improved weather in eastern states
stimulated drilling activity and pro-
duction shows slight increase.
In Texas, the week WIS compare
lively quiet. Production figures for
the entire state showed decreases of
approximately 1000 barrels, the most
of which came from North Texas.
In the Gulf Coast area compile
tons barely held their own. In spite
of an advance in the price of crude
late last week, and continued weather
favorable for field work, only one
more well was brought in this week
than was reported during the previous
week. The total number of compile
tons reported was thirteen as com
pared with twelve last week.
Production failed to hold up to the
mark set last week. The small size
of the wells brought in held the total
amount of oil recovered down to 49,
00J barrels, more than 1000 barrels
less than was reported last week.
Hull Up a Little.
Hull was the only district that
showed an increase in production but
this was offset by decreases in all
other of the big fields. The Republic
Production company got n $500 bar
rel well in its Dolbear 81, workover
at 200 feet. No. % belonging to
the same company, was a dry hole at
2115 feet. Iount Lee got salt
water well in his No. G Taylor fee
/, at 1925 feet. Dry holes were
abandoned by both the Humble Oil
\ Refining company and the Empire
Gas X Fuel company. The Mecom
Oil company and the Sun Company
each brought in "a 75-barrel well.
Since the first of the year, Hull
has been showing more activity than
any other field in the entire Gulf
Coast section. Considerable attention
was attracted to the field in Febru-
airy when Dolbear &c came in as a
10000 barrel well. and little later
when the Humble Company got a
$1,000 barrel producer in its Sterling
i, it looked as~if Hull We're destined
to boost production materially in this
area. However. the Sterling well died
shortly after it was brought in and
no other well of like capacity has
been discovered. The field shows q
total of 46 compilations since the
first of the year. the number in-
creasing with each month. During
January five wells were reported !;
this number was increased to II in
February, and March boosted this
figure TO 10. So far in April, IL
compilations have been reported, and
with more than 30 outfits in opera
ton, it is quite probable that this
month will see twice as many wells
completed as were reported during
March.
The total number Of competitions
in the Texas coastal fields since
January l, is 132. OF this numbv
1O5 have been producers. and %
have been either dry holes or salt
water wells.