Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
OIL AND SAND
SAMPLES FROM
WHITLOCK WELL


Showing samples Of the oil and
specimens of the sand which he said
came from 'Whitlock No. l well, II
miles north of Bowie, T. F. Penrod,
president of the Whitlock Oil COM
pany, talked with several persons at
the chamber of commerce rooms yes
terday while he was in Douglas on
his way to Tombstone on business.
He recoupted the experiences with the
well since the Oil was discovered
there last November 9, and the
troubles the company has been hav-
ing in trying to cut off the water
the biggest artesian wells ever opened
in Arizona.
The oil, as has Been told in the
press, suggests very high paraffin
content and it was stated by Penrod
that the test showed it to be 81
gravity. 1t was discovered under
conditions contrary to the expecta-
ton of the drillers and q serious
problem of preventing the well being
ruined by the water has been causing
the company bother but they contend
that it will be solved and the we'll
saved, according to the representative
here yesterday. Assuming that they
Should fail in this work, he pointed
out that the discovery has been made
and that all now needed is to drill
another well with the information
which the log of this well supplies
oil I1ry. .
handling it SO as to prevent the
water incursion into the hole
The group that listened to Penrod
yesterday included B. A. Packard, |
president of the First National Bank
of Douglas, who has had considerable
experience in oil fields and years ago +
was engaged in drilling wells. He !
expressed the view that the speci-
mems of sand shown by Penrod looked
very good to him and he said with
what he had heard Penrod tell of
the well that without doubt it was
a favorable looking situation, although
he said he did not know anything
about the method of treatment as
being applied to this particular case
{ It was Penrod's statement that after i
the oil sand had been encountered
unexpectedly Immediately following a
strata of conglomerate, drilling was
stopped with a view of cutting off
the water by casing it out but that
resulting aggravations caused them
to use cement and close up the hole
until they could make further test
with core drill and that they thus
demonstrated that the sand at that
point is in excess of % IL feet
thick But they have not been able
absolutely to isolate the water from
the hole and for that reason the
column of water makes it impossible
to get any accurate notion of the
amount of oil that will be shown
when free flow of it can be had
He said that guesses had been made
by different people all the way from
1000 to 1000 barrels day.
Penrod frankly stated that the pos
Sible production of the well was
guess and that the low one might
be much too high In this connec- !.
ton it may be said that it often
happens in Oil fields when we'll is
opened, the first flow will indicate
a production several times what
settled production actually means |
But in the field now opened, if the
well produces only 100 barrels a day
and of the gravity indicated, it will
prove a great profit maker.
Penrod said that his company has
acquired large acreage in the sections
of Arizona in, which the geological
indications hint oil possibilities and
that one of the lease acreages is in
Sulphur Springs valley possibly about
is miles from Douglas. "You will
see drilling in progress in this valley
within six months and possibly within
three MONTHS" said he, "and I am
confident that when the drill gets
to the proper level for this forma-
ton that oil will be discovered within
IS miles of Douglas"
The name, Whitlock given to the
well and also to the company that
drilled it, is taken from Whitlock
mountain which overlooks the field
in which the well is located.