Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-03-02

that might again parallel the RimrOck
pool. The two districts are diagonaIly
six miles apart, the Rimrock pool on the
west slope and the MalcoIm-BOyce area
on the north slope of the structure.
In all probability the remarkable Aro-
nOw-EIlingsOn well in the Kelvin pool
would have been big water well today
had there been no control head ON the
casing when it was drilled in. A dozen
big wells which flowed out of control
have ''cOned" themselves into water. The
first we'll in the field with that history
was the Sunburst-B oyce. It came I'm an
oil well. There wasn't a control head
three miles, in new oil field. Natur-
ally it blew itself into water. ONLY ONE
OTHER WE'LL IN THE FIELD HAS
EVER CONTINUED TO PERFORM LIKE
OLD FAITHFUL, at regular intervals.
That exception the Texas-Pacific
deep test wen.
There are hundreds of people still
Living who saw that BOyce well; saw the
oil on the prairie, saw the geyser in ac-
ton, and not few of them remarked
that If ever that pressure were found
behind a column of oil, new Montana
oil history would be made. Yet no other
well has been drilled near the old Sum
burst-BOyce until just recently. The
abe-Engieking-BOyc No. was re-
Gently drilled TO the top of the lime
where it found oil. The formation was
different although 1T is only a quarter
of mile southwest of the BOyce. The
well hit the ''pay" just before the
recent storm and the owners shut down,
awaiting better weather.
Acidization has never been tried in this
area. Perhaps acid will not work. Again,
il may furnish a peculiar problem which
DOweII chemists may have to solve;
again it may prove as successful as In
the Rimrock and Rocky Ridge pools.
Neither success nor failure of this well
VIII determine the future of the area
which has since 1923 been known the
california high" There is a structural
condition present, west of the B0yce
well, so it will take some more drilling
TO indicate the true possibilities of this
new district.
After that will come prospecting along
the northeast swing of this structural
nose, as mapped by the U. s. GeOIo-
gicaI Survey. Examination of the. subsur-
face map of Kevin-Sunburst shows that
no fold as sharp as the California
high" and the WiIshaw flats ''nose'' has
failed to produce when adequately test
ed.
Nor does the north slope end the pos
sibilities of new and important oil re
serves I'm the Kevin-Sunburst area. The
east slope last fall demonstrated that
there are still good possibilities of new
pools. These potentialities are open to
newcomers as well as to the old timers.
Many of the latter have all they can ham
die, leaving possibly greater OppOrtuni-
ties to new people who can see the adj
vantage of prospecting for q new oil
field in close proximity to supply stores
and pipelines.
These are some of the things that have
been known to members of our Organi-
cation for many months past. Those of
us who believe in the possibility of tan
other RimrOck pool" have pretty well
fortified ourselves with royalty invest
ments in the most promising new areas.
We viii shortly issue an offering sheet
on some producing property. Offering
sheets will be sent to only those who
request them.