, 1927-11-02
OIL FIELDS POWER
LINE COMPLETED
CURRENT THIS WEEK
High Tension Electric Line Now
Ready to Serve Oil Drilling
Companies in the Oregon
Basin Oil Fields

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According to Arthur X. Lee. To-
cal manager of the Oil Fields
Power Company. it is most likely
that current will be turned onto
the new high tension line the lat
ter part of the week, and made
available for the use of the oper-
ating companies in the Oregon Ba-
sin oil fields. Practically all of
the line work has been completed.
the sub-station installed, and the
feeder lines built to the wells which
expect to use the electric current
for power Immediately.
The Oil FIELDS Power ompany is
offering a utility for use in Oregon
Basin which comes to the average
oil field only after several years of
development. Starting last spring.
when there were but four or five
companies actually drilling in Or
egon Basin, this company evidenced
a faith in this new field which was
most unusual. However the past
season has brought about the hoped
for development, and at the pres
n time there are eighteen OF
twenty wells being drilled or about
to be drilled, with good prospects
for the use of electric power on
each of them. Four big electric
rotary drilling machines are being
installed in the field at the present
time. and the drilling experience OF
the past few years has taught the
operating companies hat the rotary
tool is the most practical for use
Some indication may be mad of
the immensely of this high power
6n2 vhen it is pointed out that one
drini"g camp. and machine, win
use about the same amount of cleo
trio current as the town of Cody.
With the field still in its first stages
of development. with only twenty
wells being drilled, where there
will probably be a hundred by the.
close of another season, some idea
may be a of the business which
the Oil Fields Power ex-
poets to reap from the new enter
prise. Even more practically pos
sibly, than the use of electric cur
rent for drilling purposes, will be
its use for pumping the oil from
the wells when production starts
This phase of the current demand
is the one which primarily appealed
to the organizers of the of the
electric company. and will create n
steady demand which will prove
even more profitable than the drill
ing demands.
line from the governments high
tension line north of Cody to the
oil fields, % miles of line have
been strung. More than $40 forty
foot heavy poles have been set, and
all of the equipment is of the high
est and best quality. The wire is
all No. 2 copper. sufficient in size
to carry the $4,000 volts into the
Basin with the least line loss, and
this same weight of wire has been
used On the distribution lines in
the Basin. Heavy cross arms and
insulators makes the line one OF
the finest in the northwest.
The power is taken to the Basin
at $4,000 volts direct from the
Reclamation Service high tension
line, there to be reduced to the
disable 440 volts at the two sub
stations located in the field. The
north sub-station is located at the
northwest corner of Sec. S-51-100,
and the south station at the south
west corner of Sec. ~29-50-100. Both
of the stations contain two $50 K
w. transformers of the very latest
and approved design. Users of cur-
rent will furnish their own trans
formers when desiring to use cur-
rent at 10 volts for lighting pur-
poses.
Those companies already signed
for use of current as soon as it is
available include the Ohio Oil COM
pany, for its woll on Sec. 6-50-100:
Chas. Orchard. for the well on Sec
2S-51-100; Fred G. Ostlund for the
Wisconsin Holdings Corporation
for the well on Sec. 9-51-100-
and the Cody Petroleum com
pany tFerdig) for the new weH
which is to be started at once on
Sec. 7-51-10O. Other companies
who have minated that they Will
use electric current at a time when
they install rotary equipment are
the Leonard Petroleum Co., Contin-
entail Oil Co, p. &. r. Co. and the
Ferdig-Wyoming Co.