Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-10-12
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showing at the top of the lime. That well
Jumped 500 per cent as a result of aci-
dization and so it was that the Rocky
Ridge pool was developed This pool has
very profitable Sunburst sand pro-
ducing area-perhaps just as good as
the Sunburst discovery pool Immediate
Iy adjoining is an area where there is
no oil in the Sunburst sand but at
the Lime contact and in the first '4break'
some II feet in the lime, are multi
hundred barrel wells, some of them
producing in NATURAL production.
We are not prepared to say that the
Sunburst sand oil has arrived in that
horizon-a fresh water sand which
should NOT contain oil under the rules
AS a result of crack or fracture which
has extended up through the Ellis and
allowed filtered oil to penetrate into the
Sunburst sand. We may dismiss that as
an unnecessary theory. We may make a
converse rule and say that no important
pools have been found where there was
NO Sunburst sand oil nearby. None can
argue that point.
1t may be no rule to go by, but
it is a pretty good suggestion to the
operator who is seeking new producing
areas, with possibly flowing wells. that
instead of drilling Just anywhere, that
find a spot where there has been "pidd-
ling amounts" of oil in the Sunburst
sand.
WHERE ARE THESE SPOTS WHERE
SUNBURST SAND OIL GIVES A POS
sIBLE CLUE TO NEW GUsHER
POOLS?
That is a question that can be an
swered by US, as we have data on every
well drilled in Kevin-Sunburst field and
environs. We have pretty well compiled
the data: did so years ago. We bought
royalties in the Rocky Ridge pool
AHEAD OF DEVELOPMENT on this
theory Members of this organization
had this data before Bill Cassidy aci-
died the first well in this pool.
Little did we know and we could
never have guessed however, that with
in a few rods of his first acidized pro-
Queer he might have drilled a we'll (Su-
perior Petroleum-Haugen No 81 that
would be a flowing oil we'll without ac-
idization. Had he drilled that location
first, he probably would never have sold
his holdings to Superior Petroleum.
So goes the oil business Some of the
people who years ago Joined in buying
all the landowners royalty on the DAY.
idson farm in West Kevin waited until
the first well, a dry hole, was abandon
ed. They wrote off their investment;
would not even gamble $1.25 fees to
put their deeds of record One of them,
in great disgust, threw his assignment
away-at least he lost it.
Here recently, a 1OO-barrel well, max
ing 40 gravity oil, came In on the DAY.
idson, and there was a mad scramble to
find the worthless" deeds. Luckily. the
man who lost his assignment, does not
lose his royalty. 1t stands, safely enough.
in the name of our trustee. He is glad
that he bought his royalty from a com
pany that is stable enough to give him
this protection over a long period of
years.
Returning to the matter of the clue
Of future pools, we are glad to pass this
along to members of this
organization, together with other geo
logical and development information
which will serve to keep an investor
informed to guide his future
investment in landowners royalties.
Where royalty properties are avail
able for purchase, we will furnish Of
,ering sheets.