San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
SAN ANTON|O|S
ON TENTATIVE
. ROUTE TO GULF
Extension Lines to Luling
and Milan Fields and
to Somerset.
SERVE MIRANDA ALSO
Eight-inch Branch Line
From Skidmore South
Into Webb-Zapata.

The most important event In the
history Of South Texas oil develop
ment was the announcement durins
! the week just closed that an eight
ten inch pipe line is to be constructed
, from Comanche county. Oklahoma, to
point on the gulf, probably Aransai
Pass.
The news became public with the
application for q permit to operats
filed in Austin during the week b,
the McCorkle Pipe Line Company OF
New York City and Fort Worth OF
which Stephen r. McCorkle is the &C
tive head in this state.
But reports from Oklahoma indicate
that the project may have the back
ing OF powerful interests among them.
the Roxana british Dutch SHELF be-
ing mentioned prominently. The Rox.
ana has been acquiring extensive pro
duction and inland facilities of all
kinds but has no water outlet of i'm.
portance which serves to strengtheu
the report that this large concern may
be fostering the project.
According to a statement obtained
from Mr.. McCorkle by a representa-.
tive of the oil department Of The
Light in North Texas, the line will BE-
751 miles long. 1t will have numer
Gus feeder lines as required.
San Antonio on the Route.
San Antonio is on the tentative
route of this pipe line as mapped by
the engineers. Surveyors already are
in the field. The estimated cost is ap-
proximately S20,0O0,000. The tentative
plans call for terminal at Arkansas
Pass including docks, tank farm and
other equipment. Whether a refinery
will be included there is not known.
Tentative plans are said to call for
line through the North Texas fields
down to the BALCONIES escarpment and
through San Antonio to Skidmore or
some point in Bee county thence di-
rect to the coast. An eight-inch ex-
tension line from Skidmore would be
run to the Miranda district in Webb
and Zapata counties via Miranda City
ham field and other South Texas pro-
ducing areas.
From San Antonio, s six-inch ex-
tension line would run 10 the Lulins
district and up the BALCONIES as far
as the shallow producing area in Mi
lam county known as the Rockdale-
Minera pool.
a Line to Somerset.
A line from San Antonio into Som
erset also probably will put the yalu-
able light Somerset crude on the same
market level with the other similar
pools. When completed, the McCorkle
line will be 751 miles in length with
gathering lines, etc, into Al separate
fields and pools, Mr.. McCorkle said.
The building Of this line will pro-
vide an entirely new market for Texas
oil and will give the South Texas
producers the first extensive pipe line
service they have ever had. most Ger
tainly enabling them to market their
production on par with other fields,
something that has held back develop
ment in South Texas for years.
OF equal interest also. is the prob
ability that it will stimulate drilling
and validating over the entire South
Texas area. 1t is well known that the
companies are making an extensive in
vestigation with the drill along the
BALCONIES escarpment and that there
are extensive acreages under lease all
through South Texas regarded favor
ably for oil examination. That these
tracts will be tested thoroughly and
within a short period after completion
of this line is probable.
Many Producing Pools
With a new pool just opening IN
Guadalupe county, with new pool az
Callahan in the McMullen-Live Oak
district, with Webb county developing
ing well in Duval county and with
possible shallow pool in Medina eoun-
ty near Hondo, the outlook for South
Texas oil production is the best ever
known here.
That this region Is looked upon very
favorably by oil men for exploration
and that q big play is imminent de-
spite the chaotic condition Of the oil
business seems reasonable in view OF
the developments Of the last few
months.