San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-15
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WORRIED BY
SALT WATER
Expected Peak Of Major
Oklahoma Pools May
Never Be Reached.

TULSA, Okla, Nov. 1.-THE in
creasing menace of salt water in the
most important Oklahoma pools and
near pools gives the crude situation in
the northern Mid-Continent a changed
outlook from few weeks ago. Some
authorities now express doubt that
CARRIER will attain its expected peak of
$4,000 to 100000 barrels or that Okla
homa will pass the half million daily
mark in production before the first of
the year.
Still others insist that the water
menace is nothing to be alarmed about
and that the increasing number of big
wells will offset any detrimental effect
salt water might have. The whole
situation is one Of uncertainty and
one which Mid-Continent oil men are
discussing with frankness. A few new
important pools between now and the
first of the year, a possibility but not
a probability, are somehow expected to
discount the salt water theory in the
CARRIER and other major fields.
MAY RUIN. SAND.
The overnight increase of salt water
at CARRIER was so sudden that few
were able to comprehend its effect on
the general situation and are still I'M
able to estimate the effect it might
have. The presence of "hot oif'' has
also added to the feeling that the wa
ter invasion may eventually spell the
ruin of the CARRIER deep sand as well
as few other major areas now affect
ed. Three Of the Roxana Petroleum
corporation wells on the famous
Schroeder lease at CARRIER are making
from 100 to 600 barrels of water per
well. On the north end of the pool,
this company's Wolfe No. 1 practically
ruined the north edge of production
which was heretofore free of water
and looked very promising. The Wolfe
well only made 325 barrels Of which
225 barrels was salt water.
In the Thomas pool, water has been
found in the Wilcox sand to a lesser
degree but has caused slump in pro-
duction of most of the wells. Latest
big well in this pool was the Marland
Oil Company No. A. Thomas in sec
ton 1922 west. which got the VIII
cox sand at $3.50 to 1905 feet and
flowed at the rate of $50 barrels an
hour before settling down and gauging
$40 barrels for the first "a hours.
The Thomas pool is producing at this
time about 1000 barrels a day and
may reach 10000 barrels though its
area is small and likely not to spread.
DISCOVER POOL.
The opening of a new pool south
of the Papoose pool in Hughes county.
Oklahoma, though confined to a rela-
lively small area, is looked upon as i'm
portant. The well, belonging jointly
to Thurman Petroleum Company, and
the Transcontinental Oil Company,
made 1921 barrels the first 81 hours
from the regular Papoose sand at 1870
feet.
The % completed deep sand wells
at CARRIER on November 10 made 49,
S1J barrels, which was 1919 barrels
less than tie peak output of November
Z when 4S,434 barrels were recorded.
The latest big well in the field was the
Mid Continent Petroleum Corporation
Marland Oil Company No. 40 School
Land which has been deepened to 4312
feet and made 5000 barrels last "a
hours. This well has as yet shown no
salt water. The largest well in the
deep sand is the Roxana Petroleum
Corporation 5-W Schroeder in section
1928 west which continues to flow
1861 barrels every "a hours.