, 1935-08-11
Compilations in Three Areas
Mark ActiDe Week in Valley
Development; Interest High

MISSION, Aug. i0.-The Lower
Rio Grande Valley closed one Of its
most active weeks In recent months
Saturday with competitions in three
sections. three important wildcats
attracting considerable interest and
others drilling.
Samfordyce reported two new
competitions during the week, three
other tests are cleaning, two are
being revoked. two are drilling and
three new tests r getting under
way.
The Rio Grande City pool Of
southern Starr county reported an
other new producer and four other
tests in the area are under way.
Hidalgo county's second deep
pool, opened last week with the
Gulf States Oil Company's No.
Engelman making diStillate. re-
mains a more or less unknown
quantity since the well stopped
making fluid when choke was re-
duced to b-inch.
Considerable attention will be
given the Union Sulphur Company's
Mercedes deep pool this weekend
as the No. ! American-Rio Grande
cores for the sand at 475-7 500 feet
Three wildcats In widely separ-
ated sections of the Valley were
coring or attempting completion.
Most interesting Of this group Is
the d. AZ. G. Oil Company's (same
rs Downey e. Morton) No. ] OSca
DaSkam, in block "a, porcion As
jurisdiction Of Reynosa, Hidalgc
county, about IL miles west OF
Mission and five miles northeast OF
Samfordyce. Plug Is being drilled
with tubing after a short inner
string was set in the bottom 20 seek
production through p~erforations al
Al IA feet. The test had a sand
at 4~,090-4,1l4 feet. The liner Is
3-inch pipe and work on the plug
Is necessarily very slow.
Within a few feet OF completing
It's ~6,000-foot contract, E%addox-
Turnbull- Irwin's No. / John II
Shary, five miles south Of Mission
broke through a hard caprock late
Thursday at 5,947 feet. The first
core Of four feet showed hard. tight
dry sand without odor. Coring Il
being continued during the week
end.
Three miles southwest Of Mission
Bluff Petroleum Company's No.
Porcion Land CO., is still stand
ing awaiting orders at $3.50 feet.
In south central Starr county, A
Nix No. ] Starr County CatSI
company. Is reported to have corec
an oil sand at 2,62l-37 feet. Oper'
ators are giving out little informa'
ton and the well is shut down
Location Is about n and a hal
miles south of production in tn
6arbacoas pool.
In Willacy county, King Wood
Oil Company'S No. l Santa Rosa
Is shut down at 5,647 feet Will
laying water line.
Hidalgo county's new deep pool
eight miles northeast Of EdinburI
and Is miles northwest Of tn
Unions Mercedes production, wa
opened last week by the Gul
States Oil Company's No. ! Johi
G. Engelman. The well. producing
from two sands between 6,670 ant
6,740 feet. first made SO to 100 bar
rels of light-colored diStillate dali,
under pressure OF 1900 pound
through quarter-inch choke. Chok
was reduced early this week to one
eighth inch and the fluid stoppeI
completely. The well Is now maxim
an estimated two million cubic fee
OF dry gas daily under pressure Q
1850 pounds. No new locations hav
vet been announced. Several com
panies are interested nearby, In
GLIDING Gulf States. Texas-Ne'
York Development company. Nc
Collum Exploration company
Union Sulphur company, Deering 4
Kayser and the Texas company.
The first new wildcat In north
eastern Mexico in several month
got under way when Mier Oil com
pany'S No. / Cha. Carbonifera d
Mier. s. A., about one mile west Q
the city Of Mier. opposite Ri
CIdIlQc Oltg, b1AbC4 hldhAAB A@A'
The test. contracted TO $500 feet Q
production, is now shut down at IL
feet for boiler repairs.
The Samfordyce area OF south
western Hidalgo county was par
ticularly active during the week
two new wells being contemplated
four others being on the sand an
several others drilling or rigginI
up.
The new competitions. bringinI
the fields total flowing producer
to n, were:
w. r. Lacy's No. ! Seabury ct a
in tract 256, porcion 80. about 1,S5
feet northwest OF discovery, gauge
two barrels hourly on 3-32-incl
tubing choke with tubing pressur
of. 1876 pounds and closed-in casinI
pressure Of 100 pounds from SAN
at 2,76I-64 feet.
King-Woods Oil Company's Nc
s Francisco Guerra. about 500 fee
north Of discovery. was turned int
the tanks Thursday making al
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