Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-07-04

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
A Plain Talk With Kevln Operators

would have been no famous HowIing No.
g. Had only one well be drilled by
Fulton on his Byrne farm, there would
have none of the famous gushers which
followed. The operators who have
'gone broke" In this field are the one
well driIIers else those who spread out
too far
If an operator will concentrate on
making 100000 and get that Sin the
bag before he starts on his next $780,
900, he win not fail in Kevin-Sunburst
field. If he win stop to realize that
there Is no question about how much oil
the AVERAGE ACRE in the field Will
produce, and win rely solely ON that
probable recovery-4orgetting the POS
SIBLE gusher tracts like the Emmons
40--he win drill out 40 acres or so
acres with absolute confidence that ne
will recover an LEAST q certain number
of barrels per acre. That factor is for
the operator TO determine. We have a
factor on which we have been working
for the last 10 years. During the pre-
viOus three years we were working ON q
much smaller factor. We will probably
have to increase our recovery factor
another time as q result Of acidization.
Everyone knows that Kevfn-Sunburst
win yield at lot more oil per acre WITH
acidizatiOn than without acid How much
mores none can tell at the present time.
We know that wells have been re-acidized
as many as seven times and each time
they have increased their production be-
yond their initial. We know that acid
eats its way back into the lime, opening
up new pores and channels. Certainty,
acid finds oil that would never be re-
leased from the limestone formations,
allowing it TO come into the wen. Ii
follows that acidizatdon win increase the
yield per acre.
4Y,oe.o Noo&cm. -.
of oil Land, both from the viewpoint
Of the operator and from the viewpoint
of the royalty investor. The royalty i'm
weston hopes to see the operator succeed
although he has no control over the
operators methods. Those of us who
saw the passing of the giants such as
Campbell OIL Co, the Three-fn-Ome OtH
Co., Potlatch, Sunburst OIL & Refining
company and others that have had many
fortunes within their grasp are bound
TO arrive at conclusion. That con-
cIusiOn is that If amy one of these COM
panies had concentrated ON one lease,
they would have been in existence and
prosperous today. When the Sunburst
company failed it was paying rentals
ON fOO,OOO acres of leases. Like scores
of other companies, it was weighed down
and sunk by it's precious possessions:
Like the man swimming sway from the
wrecked treasure ship who tried to
carry &M the $0zU WIFI mAKAs kAaU ne
filled his pockets, only, he might have
reached shore with enough to give him
a life of happiness but the great bags
of precious treasure he carried dragged
him hopeIessly TO the bottom.
The man who buys Kevin-Sunburst
properties with the EXPECTATION OF
10000 barrels TO the acre is doomed
to disappointment. The man vino plans
to make money If the Land produces
only few HUNDRED barrels per acre
is almost certain to succeed and further
more he always has that chance OF
getting an ''Eanmons Forty Our OBJ
servation is that those who least expect
them get the big gushers. Those per-
sons are the lucky ones. The business
of making money In oil is now reduced
to plain, common sense. and the term
"Inck'' belongs not to the average bat to
the big producing tracts.
ANY who is interested I'm Kevin-Sun-
burst royalties should write us = re-
quest to be placed on our Kevin-Sun-
burst preference list