Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
DENVER POST
fConfgnued from p, 90 one,

interest at Cut Bank. Tho Yukon
oil company's No. 2 Lungren. NEA
NEk NWA section 23-37N-5N, an
offset to eompany's North Cut
Bank discovery completed at the
close OF 1888. failed to find COM
mercial production and abandoned
/ in April at 2,735 feet. the offset
we'll did pick up oil shows in the
MoultOn sand at 2,500-79 feet.
SEVERAL THOUSAND ACRES
BETWEEN FIELDS INFESTED.
In June. Nadeau Brothers No. 2
Crowley, CSWA NWh section "a
37N-5W, completed In the Sunburst
sand at 2.676-2,796 feet for fifty
barrels daily in North Cut Bank
area. In the same vicinity the
Huber Montana corporation COM
Dleted its No. Crowley, CNWA
/ NV Il section 24-37N-5W. for ESQ
/ barrels daily in the Sunburst at
1922 .702 feet. The Moulton
sand. at 2.571-2.575 feet had show
ed twelve barrels per hour on the
drill stem Seven-inch production
casing was set thru this sand In the
Huber well, so that operator could
later back up and perforate TO
complete in that sand.
The North Cut Bank pool is To-
Gated some fourteen miles north and
east of the main Cut Bank field.
The main Cut Bank field was ex-
tended a quarter mile north by the
Glacier Production company's No.
l Larson, NWA NEi4, section 35-
36N-6W. which initiated $50 bar
rels daily from the Upper Cut Bank
sand at 3,01S-2S feet. Several thou
sand acres between the North and
Main Cut Bank fields are potential
oil acreage open for testing and de-
velopment and point to a continued
strong drilling campaign in 1910.
At the close of 1889, thirteen wells
were drilling in Cut Bank with five
wells at the close of 1898.
Largest gas rlow developed in
Montana was encountered late in
November in the main Cut Bank
field in the Glacier Production COM
pany's No. 2 Rigney. SEA SWA
SEA. section 35-36-6W, which
gagged 80 million cubic feet daily
from the Cut Bank sand at 1915
3,O16 feet A 31-million cubic-foot
flow encountered in the Moulton
and Sunburst sands had been cased
off with seven-inch run to the top
of the Cut Bank.
KEVIN-SUNBURST FIELD
HAS TWO EXTENSIONS.
The Kevin-Sunburst field had two
extensions in 1889. On the north
east side. Imperial Craig Oil COM
Dany's No. 1 Cause, CSW a NEA
Section 18-35N-1W. completed in
October for thirty-five barrels daily
from ,626 feet, extending the field
tern sector Of the field, Handbook
Oil company's No 1 McCurdy Per-
NIT. SEA NWA NWA section IL
35N-R3W. pumped 240 barrels daily
on recompletion from the Ellis
Madison contact zone at Ito feet.
The well extended the west sector
a quarter mile north.
One of the largest compilations
IN Kevin-Sunburst was brought in /
in May last year when the Big West J
Oil company completed it's No. s
CNWA NEA. section |
2S-35N-3W, for forty-seyen barrels
per hour, or 1928 barrels daily at
1871 feet in the EllisLMadison
contact after a 1OO-quart shot of
and 500 gallons of
acid. The Big West well contri-
1uted nearly as much to Kelvin
Sunburst initial as the combined
initials of the forty-nine other oil
wells completed in the field this
rear.
Kevin-Sunburst oil companies and
drilled in 1899 nearly
vice the wells drilled in 1898. All
able tool operations, Kelvin oper-
tors completed seventy wells for
1918 feet of hole, of which fifty
we're oil wells with 2,972 barrels
initial, two were gas wells and
Eighteen were dry holes. This
ompares with thirty-six compile
ions in 1888, for 1851 feet, of
7hich twenty-eight were oil wells /
With an initial of 1859 barrels, r