Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17

/ Peterson and one and one-fourth
miles southeast Of the McNamar dis
coVery. Last year the Glacier COM
pany's No. /, Reynolds, CIVIL section
Is, half a mile southwest of the
McNamar well, was dry and aban-
doned at 2,840 feet. These two dry
holes, a mile apart, between the new
producer and the developed area
possibly may point to the discovery
of an important gas district on
the north.
In our own minds we have always fig
ured the McNamar wen as the DISCOV
cry WE'LL of the Moulton sand gas
pool in north Cut Bank for subsequently
it was definitely established that the
Moulton sand was the producing horizon
although the question was debated until
the completion of the Cobb-State No. 1,
four miles north and three miles east
That well, with an initial of 100000
cubic feet per day definitely established
the Moulton sand as the greatest gas
producing horizon in the state of Mon
tana for at that time the State well was
the largest gasser in Montana
Then came the drilling Of the Yukon
Lundgren we'll which came in a flow
ing well in the Moulton sand Not until
that time were authorities willing to
agree that the Lander we'll some IA
miles southwest of the Lundgren, was
getting its great flood of oil from the
Moulton sand. Now it is definitely
known that the Lander No. 1 and four
other wells in the pool are getting their
oil from the Moulton sand. By drawing
line hafWaau he ~.
gren wells we have some idea as to the
MOULTON SAND AREA where larger
production is possible.
The recent completion of a $4,000 900
foot gasser at a point so low structurally
that 1t was deemed likely a water we'll
proves the great possibilities of the Moul-
ton horizon. The gas from this sand is
said to be laden with gasoline, measur-
ing about six pints per thousand cubic
feet. Because there was no immediate
market for the stripped gas it was i'm
possible to remove the gasoline from the
these big wells would be
tremendously valuable as naptha wells
So it was that the industry began look
ing around for a way to dispose of the
gas to make possible the development of
this. the most promising oil and gas
horizon ever found in Montana
One plan is to pipe the gas to Spo-
kane-after extracting the gasoline 1t
will not take many wells such as the two
drilled, to supply the Spokane line. The
other plan is to strip the gas of its gaso-
line content and burn the residue gas in
a carbon black plant The owners of
the largest carbon black plant in the
world have entered North Cut Bank be-
cause of this attractive possibility.
With either a carbon black plant or
a piDeline to Spokane there would be
justified the greatest drilling campaign
Cut Bank has known with wells directed
to the little-known Moulton sands. The
possibilities are that in the search for
new supplies of gas some big oil wells
Will be brought in. The first attempt
OF the carbon black group to get add
tional gas resulted in the completion
of good oil well-not in the Moulton
sand but in the SUNBURST SAND. That
well proves the possibility of a THIRD
oil producing horizon in the Darling pool
OF North Cut Bank, which was already
producing oil from the Cut Bank sand
and from the Moulton sand.
The possibilities for big oil wells
Ike the lander, and big gas wells,
the new North Cut Bank 'pIay" the
greatest gamble for large stakes the
Montana oil Industry has known.
The extent and size of the producing
area is as DrobiematicaI as the size
of the wells, which will be drilled,
but the man who owns royalty i'm
the path OF production has a chance
for fortune.
We repeat that FORTUNATE Is
THE MAN WHO TODAY HAS
WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF THE
SITUATION IN THE NORTH MON
TANA OIL AND GAS FIELDS.
This is a time when INFORMATION
pays greatest dividends. Those who
have received the current publications of
this organization on North Cut Bank have
followed this situation, step by step,
and are armed with maps, both geologic
and property maps. and adequate infor-
nation to capitalize the rapid turn of
events.
This information will be furnished to
those who wish to catch up with the