The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-02-21
DRY CREEK rs PROVEN
FIELD; OUTLOOK ROSY

Ohio Oil companys well at Dry creek,
eight miles east of Red Lodge, have
taken place during the last week that
puts this field among the proven
fields of the state. Oil was baled from
the hole for 72 consecutive hours in an
attempt to clean it out, as it was the
intention of the men to shoot the well
with nitro-glycerine in order to shat
tr the sand-rock so that the oil would
have better chance to come into the
hole.
The we'll shooters arrived and the
bailing commenced, but the attempt
to clean the we'll out was not sue
cess. The oil level could not be low
cred, so, after waiting three days
while the bailing was going on night
and day, the shooters left for Their
mopolis, stating that it looked like a
hopeless case to try and clean the
well out enough to shoot it.
The strong flow of wet gas contin-
ues and some increase has been noted
in the past month. The we'll was test
ed about two months ago and produc-
ed at that time eleven million cubic
feet of wet gas per day. With the
present equipment the oil can be baled
out at the rate of ten barrels per hour,
thus making 240 barrels per day. AS
this equipment would not lower the
level of the oil, the exact production
of this well is an unknown factor.
Charles Lupton, of Denver, nation
ally known geologist and authority
on Rocky Mountain structures, visited
the we'll last week and he is quoted
as stating the bit has just entered
the first frontier sand; the sand at
the top being so dense that the oil
is refined in passing through it, and
if a greater volume of oil under tre
mendous pressure did not exist deeper
in the sands, no oil would be encoun-
tered where the bit now is. He looks
for big producer when the bit PEN
etrates deeper into the sands.
Mr.. Lupton also said, from his OBJ
servations Of the out-cropping of this
formation in Bridger Canyon, it was
his opinion that 600 feet of oil sand
would be encountered, including the
first frontier, second frontier and Da-
kotas. The frontiers being practically
continuous, with about twenty feet of
shale separating them from the Da-
kotas. The large oil saturated sand
combined with the tremendous rock
pressure will make good producing
field for many years.
Mr.. Lupton also stated that five
quarts of nitro -glycerine shot at the
bottom of this hole now would bring
in big producer. But it being i'm
possible to shoot the well under the
present circumstances, the deeper sands
will have to be penetrated before the
actual production is known.
In the meantime development of the
field is going on rapidly. A gang of
men are busy putting in the telephone
line from Bridger. Sixteen carloads
of pipe for the pipeline have been un-
loaded and distributed along the right
ofway by six big trucks and another
gang of men, while third bunch of
men are busy shoveling snow from the
right of-way and the roads leading to
the we'll. The pipe used weighs As
pounds to the foot, and evidently the
company has purchased the best there
is, and expects this line to be used for
the transportation of oil for many
years to come.
1t is estimated that SO men are now
employed in the development of the
field and are now making Bridger
their headquarters and it is said
that Bridger is enjoying more bust
ness activity than it has for years.
The Dry Creek test we'll was spud-
ded in on June II, 1927, on the NWA
of Sec. IL, Twp. 7, Range 21 East,
Carbon County, Montana; on property
owned by the N. P. railroad, and high
railroad officials are very much elat-
ed over the present developments.
Considerable trouble has been en-
countered during the duration of this
test, but the Ohio Oil company and
the men employed by them have over
come all difficulties as they appeared
and the elimination of the project is
a fine oil well, the quality of the oil
not being surpassed by any field in
the world and the quantity as yet be-
ing an unknown factor. All things
point to this being a big producer
when the sands have been penetrated
to greater depth. Oil has been
spraying out of this well for the past
six months with the gas, but as a long
and complicated fishing job has held
things up during that time this is the
first attempt that has been made to
determine how much oil the we'll
would produce.
Two rotary rigs have been dis
mantled and are ready for shipment
at Oregon Basin and will be hauled
to Dry Creek as soon as the roads |
will permit their transportation by
truck. The rotary equipment now be-
ing used at the test we'll as an auxil-
iary to the cable tools will make three
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