, 1927-07-20
OIL field flotes

/ OIL field Notes |
F.. G.. Osland has just completed
the derrick and is getting ready
to drill on the Half Moon structure
Charlie Orchard and Don Wallace
of Denver are making preparations
to start on the Rue Permit.
The Ohio well near the ~Shoshone.
which was started on the second of
July. after a bad start, is now
down about three hundred and
sixty feet.
The Ferdig we'll on the Huff per
nit, Section 10, is down to about
eleven hundred feet n progress
ing nicely. This well has en-
carrying a fifteen and a half pipe
through.
Poles are being hauled for the
high tension electric light system
to furnish electricit yfor Oregon
Basin, Sunshine Basin, Grass creek,
Thermopolis, Hamilton Dome and
the Black Mountains from the Cody
Power House at the Cody Dam.
The Leonard Petroleum Company
of Washington, Pa, has a well
down a thousand feet and set a
twelve and a half casing Tuesday
through the frontier sands to shut
off the flow of water. On the
South End of the Oregon Basin,
this company will start to rig up on
about the oath.
There is strong talk in the field
that other large companies will
soon start operations. The Midwest
Company and the P r Company
Producers and Refiners) had geo
logists working in the fields this
week, preparatory to starting OPP
erations on several other permits
TIE Ferdig well on the Clint
permit is in a fair way to be fin
ishcd up. A cement twelve and a.
half casing has been put in at
about Two thousand feet to keep
the water out. In thirty days the
well should be completed. Oil in
the Ten Sleep sand is found around
thirty three hundred feet.
TIL. Continental Oil Company on
School Section No. 16 is about
ready to spud. The rigging up is
acout complete and drilling will
start this week.
The Illinois Pipe Line Company's
eight inch oil line from the field
to the railroad is about completed
This company is completing a fifty
five thousand barrel tank at the
field and two eighty thousand bar
rel tanks at the railroad. 1t is
also putting in a big booster sta
ton at Oregon Basin. to pump the
oil n.
George Proctor has completed
the preliminary work for drilling
on Spring Greek, and on Sunday
spudded in for a second deep test
well on this structure. The well
drilled last year to a depth of about
5000 proved a dry hole. The
new location is about 5000 feet
north and east of the old location.
on what it is though more to the
top of the structure. The well is
about seventeen miles from Nee
teetse up Meeteetse creek. The
well is being drilled by N. F. Clark
and associates of Pittsburg. Pc.
Washington. D. c., July IL
The increased production of oil
in Michigan has attracted the birds
of prey. One of these claims to be
an engineer and oil expert for the
Government. His method, however,
is to offer his services to the land
owner at the reasonable charge OF
SIS. for which fee he promises to
test the soil by a chemical or
Photographic process thu determin-
ing whether or not oil underlfes
the farm which has put up the
$25 fee.
Inquiry at the Geological Survey
in the Department of the Interior
has of course brought out the TACT
that no such specialist has ever
been connected with its staff as 4
g%eologist. nor does the Geological
Survey know of any method by
which the presence or absence of
oil a few hundred or n few thous-
and feet beneath the surface can
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