Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-03-04
SCHOENFELT

Canadian Market


Canadian Market
"At the beginning OF the 1898
drilling season, there was little in
/ centive for the wildcatter TO try
| his luck. Extensions to the Turner
Valley field in Alberta had flood
ed the market with high grade
crude and northern Montana OPP
orators were thereby cut off from
an outlet they had previously en-
joyed of more than 1900 barrels
OF oil a day.
PROBATION Rejected
1.-The improvement in marketing
conditions appears to date from Feb
ruary "A. 1898. with the rejec-
ton of proration. PROBATION acted
as an incentive to Cut Bank oper-
in the truly American way by es-
tablishing new outlets for crude
THE first move toward expand
ing markets was made by Glacier
Production company. This con
Germ, the oil-producing subsidiary
of Montana Power company. invest
ed substantially in the Inland En-
pire refinery at Spokane and au-
thorized the construction in 1899 of
1900 barrel refinery at Cut Bank
for its own account
Groups of Cut Bank operators.
by cash investments. price concess-
ions and credit arrangements were
instrumental in the construction of
new plants at Pocatello and Twin
Falls Idaho, also in larger Mon
tana towns and in expansions to ex-
listing refineries in the vicinity OF
the field.
Lack OF Corporation
''Kevin-Sunburst and Border OD-
orators did not fare so well. partly
because the grade Of oil is lower,
but mainly because no concerted eff
forts were made. These fields had
their old blished outlets and
while they felt the pinch of the
loss of their limited Canadian mar
ket. they still were able to dispose
of as much as so per cent of their
dailv outputs.
1.-The Pondera field is closely
owned and as there are very few
operating compares. no particular
efforts were made to find new
crude oil outlets. Most of the oil
from this field is refined by the
Home refinery at Great Falls"
West Kelvin
The publication discusses the de-
velopment of the gas pool in the
Moulton sand in North Cut Bank
and then refers to the West Kelvin
area
Further development of the
West Kelvin field in 1888. followed
it's discovery in 1897 The discovery
we'll in the this field was completed
N the Ellis Madison contact and
flowed 100 barrels of oil a day
through the casing after treatment
with acid. This year, oil was dis
covered in the first break in the
Madison lime at 231S feet 10y NJ w.
Cassidy in No. / Phoenix, in the
CNL NWA NWA of Sec. 28-35N-
4W, 2h miles north of the dis
covery we'll At the close of the
wear, the we'll was shut down wait
ing for the weather to moderate.
After acidizing a second time. the
we'll pumped rs barrels of fluid.
about 40 per cent water, in IL hours
The oil, light green in color. has an
APT gravity of Al degrees and is of
Daraffin base This is interesting
because most of the Madison lime
oils of the Rocky Mountain region
are mixed base oils and some of
them carry a fairly high sulphur
content"
Like Sharp Dip Area
In reporting the Dupuyer test
of the California company. in the
sharp-dfp area along the east face
of the Rocky Mountains, Schoenfelt
says:
"The similarity of geological con-
ditions along the front range in
Montana to the area
that embraces Turner Valley in |
is one reason for further |
prospecting in this area. The prox-
unity of the nearby producing oil |
fields of Teton. Glacier and Toole
counties is another reason. and fin
ally, the existence of oil saturation
In outcropping rocks lends encour-
agement to the belief that the un-
ierlying beds may be productive OF
1il and gas"
The publication contains geologi-
'al maps of new oil fields includ-
ng Wilson creek Colo, Cole Creek,
Wyo., a large map of Lance creek
'ield. Wyo., and scores OF others.
ogether with a complete list of
1888 well compilations.