The Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 21, No. 31, December 28th, 1922

              Ghe OILandGAS JOURNAL
pRODUCING REFINING MARKETING
COllyrlfl:ht. 1922. by
TeLSA, OJ<L.\[[O~IA, DECDfBER 28, 1922 The Petroleum Publl.hlnl' Co.
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vOL. 21. No. 31
Small New Pools and Extensions to Old Ones
Week's Field Review Marked by Few Big Wells
Outside of the Fields Where They Were Expected.
Tbe 'tonkawa }i'ield bus been extended a half mile
DOrtherls by the Cornal' Oil Coml)ao;y's Ko.! Be\'·
edln, Section 34··25-1w, in Kay County. OkluhOnlll.
It started at 400 barrels from the second Hoon~l'
saud, topped at 1,83V feet. '1'. B. Slick and t.he
Camar Oil Compl1u)' completed Ii 3,~-barrel well in
section 35·2li·!w. A new sund was found in the
-. Tonknwa dist.rict in the Gypsy Oil Compauy's Ko. 3
-, Clark, in Secl10n 2-24-1w, ot 2,425 feet find n 500-
barrel production. 'l'be Osscnbeck lest in Section
.. 26-25-1W, was n fuilure and was ab.:'tlldoned at 3,670
_, feet. In the Rol.lberson Field, in Gllrvin County,
I lOOO-bul'rcl well was completed by 'I'he Texas
" Pacific Coal & Oil Company, in No. 2 Pearce,
Section 13-1u-3w. 1.'hc Prairie Oil & Gas Company
and Wilhoit ure reported to have missed the high­grade
J)l'oUucillS' sand tOlllld ill Secl ion 4-0-10, in
their test drilling in Section 5. 'I'he well was re­ported
to be below the depth at which oil was found
in SecUon 5. It the f3und (aiLs to show DI), drilling
may be continued in an effort to find the 3,BOO-foot
sand found by the '!'rIluscontinental Oil Company
ill Section 29-10-10. In tbe eastern Bristow Field,
Creek County, the Waite Phillips Compan~-'s :Ko. 4
Brown, Section 13-16-10, is a OOO-oorrel well. 'rhe
same compans's 1\0. 4 Vaughn, in Section 33-16-9.
started at 70 barrels an bonr_ Tbe Eddy Oil Com­pany's
So. 1 Ship, Ln Section 4-15-9 started at 1.440
barrels. 'Tbe Gn>sy Oil Company completed three
wells ou the Clanton fnrm iu Section 4-15-9, good
tor 720 barrels, 1,080 bnrrels and 600 barrels, respec­ti'fely.
In tbe Garber district, Garfield CollnQ', tbe
Sinclair Oil Compan~"s Xo. 8 Frickenscllmidt in
Section 25-22-4w, made n 205 barrel well in the 2,­(
XI() feet sand. In tbe southern part of the State,
tbe Magnolia Petroleum Company finished a 160­barrel
well in No.2 }o"urrls, in Section 26-2s-6w,
Stepbens Oounty, in a 1.700-foot sand. In the Fox
district, Carter COWlty, the Rockland Oll Com­pany's
No.4 Brooks, Section 35-2s-3w, Is a 2OO-barrel
pumper. In the Hewitt district, carter County, the
Coline Oll Company and GiLlam & Miillt:r's No. 11
Westheimer A Ranch, io Section 35-4s-2w, started at
150 barrels from sand at 2,890 feet and Ko. 8 on
t)e lease will make a good well.
North Central Texao
EastlBod County, in the North Central Texas area,
.bows a number of good wells, the best of the past
Week's completions aud near completions baving
been the Donnelly Drilling Company's No.1 Dunean,
near the discovery well of tho Kirk Brewer on the
Westmoreland land, which started at 250 barre1a,
ana is now making 450 b.lrrels a day. The Doo·
DeIly Drilling Company's well was maIdng 750 .ber­rela
with a good pressure wltb the bit only 6 feet
1D pay found at 2,935 feet. McCamey and others'
No.1 Johuson, in supposedly dead territory, soutb
of Pioneer prodoctlon, is showing 100 barrels with
tbe bole not cleaned out. after a shot. The same
Arm'. No. 2 Brooke in the PIoneer Pool, Is showiug
100 barrels and not completed. It is a llttle north
of production. In the Ibex' Pool, in Sbackellord
CounQ', Landreth 80d others' No.1 Poindexter made
831 barrels alter a sbot. at 3,000 feet. It is an 6:­taaion
well. Tbe Mid-Kansas OU & Gas Company'.
...u, which foun<\ a pay sand at 4.052 feet, iii Ella..
till.. Stephena Count)'. nnd atarted at 720 barreIa a
417. 2 feet In tbe ..nd, baa bridged and atopped pro­daelnc-
The Te..a Consolidated 011 Companr'a
.\UIl-{'O:-'TIXIl:-.'r PROOlJCTIOX
:t~fima(ed daily pl'oouction or the fields of the
l'lid-Collfinent at the close or the past week was as
rollows: North Louisi.:um, 77,690 barrels; j\rkansas,
El Dorado, 23,140 barrels, and Smaeko\-er. 175.000
barrels; North Centrdl Texas, 123,523 barrels; }I~ast
Celltral Toxas (Me.'\:ia, Currie ml(l Corsicaoa), 70,·
007 barrels; J\ansas. 87,800 barrels; Oklahoma­Cushhlg
and Sluunrock, 27.800 b:trrels; lIealdton,
]8,300 burrels; lIe\\iU, 26,750 barrels; Burbank,
84,500 barrels; L)·Olls·Qllilln, 10,800 barrels; 'fon­kawa,
30.015 barrels; other Oklahoma pools, 232,000
barrels. Total,:ttl Oelds. 987,325 barrels, a gain of
7,926 barrels ill COmlJurisoll with the preooding wt'ek.
The estinmted daily prOfluction or heavy gravity
oil in the Gulr Coast Field was 109,190 barrels.
Ko. 3 Murtul, a mile south of b·nn. has increased
from 250 barrels to 850 barrels a duy, after deeper
dl"ilIing, It is 3,012 feet in depth. It is the second
'-ery deep producer in Stephens County. In Wichita
Count,)·, tlle Magnolia Petroleum Company's No. 12
Rio Bra"o is a 3OO-burrel well and ::\"0. 1~ Rio Bravo
sbowed 100 bnrrel6. John O'1\cal c...dended the
West Electra Pool witb a 3OQ.barrcl well. 1\0. 8 Rio
Bra,'o, in Section 31, and the well was not yet com­pleted.
Montague County's boom bas subsided.
Fowler and otbers' test had reached 3,300 feet witb
noLhlng showing. This well is 18 miles southwest
of The 'Texas Company's big gusser, and operators
are now pinning hope to the north end of the coun­ty.
In the Electra Pool, The Texas Company com­pleted
:\0. 245 Waggoner as a 250-b8rrel weli and
the Magnolia Petroleum Company got a 250-barrel
well in No. 12 Waggoner. Other completions were
smaller in output or dry.
In Young County, tbe Sinclair Oil &: Gas Com­pany's
l\o. 2 Kissinger gauged 84:6 barrels in 24
h('urs. It is nortb of the Brazos Ri\"'er, at Herrin
City. The Freeman Hampton Pool in AT 1,1,r Coun·
ty, contributed an unusual number o{ completed
wells in thc vast week, and an of tbem were good
paying producers trom the comparatively sballow
sand :found iu tltat area.
ArkansaB and Louisiana
The Smackover district in ArkansaS', notwith­standing
tbat only a third or so of the production
is marketed by pipe line and tank car, sees no let
up in completions. Nineteen new wells were brought
in in the past week with initial production or 34,­010
barrels. and llfi,OOO.OOO feet of gas. Tbe larg­est
of the 011 wells were Arkansas Cblef on Com­PilOY'S
No.2 McKenzie, Section 35-15-16, 1,000 bar­rols;
Empire Gas & lj'ucl Company's 1\0. I-A. Laner,
Section 36-15-10, 2,500 barrels; R. J. McMurray's No.
I-B Laney, same SC'l:ttOIl, 4,000 banels; Empire Gas
&: Fuel Company's No. 1 Lr.ney, Section 31-15-15,
5.000 barrels; Douston Oil Company's ~'O. 3 Laney.
5,020 barrels througb a %-inch cboker; Simms OU
Company's 1\0. 4 Hirscb, same section, 2,000 burrels;
Tomlinson and others' No.2 Laney, same section.
1,000 b8rrels; Roxana Petroleum Compnny's No.1
R. Bennett. same SectiOD, 7.000 barrels; Bumble
Oil &: Refining CompRny's '1\0. 2 Hildebrand, sec­tion
28-15-1G, 5.000 barrels_ One of tbe gas well8
sbowed 40.000,000 feet of gos. the Golf BeAn'.
Oompml,)"s Xo. 1 Goodwin, in Section 32-J.li.1I.
are !J1 serh'ely drilling wells in the Ouachita County
clld of the field. Big gllssers with oil showings are
reported from the southern end of tile field, ib
Union COUllt)' nnd there is :l lot of drilling activity.
The Old El fklrlldo Field. in Union Counts, showed
two completions, neither or them big wells. 10
fA>ulsiuna. ll:lyn('!oiville ~hows onc completiou and
"cry liLlie drilling outliillc ot ",Hlde.lt aclh·lty. In
Cliddo Parlsb, the Dixie Oil Compal.y finished No.1
Louisiana Stale, in Section 13-21·1~, und it is a 1,­OOO.
barrcl well. In De Soto Parisb, a lailure 11
reported in l\lc.:Uurruy & :Butler Driilliug Co.'a No.
:=! Matthews, at 2.730 feet. A 2,7S5-foot fallure in
.Bossler PUl'lsh is reported in the Staudard 011 Com­PilU~"
S ~o. 1 Rnwls, Section 15-22-11. In tbe Elm
Gro"e district the Gulf Uefining Company's No. U
HlXlges. bns MIt water and a show of oil at 4,428-­33
teet, said to be the Trinity sund. The oil in th1a
well tested 30.6 gravity. In tbe Stephens Field in
Columbht County, a 125-barrel.completion is credited
to llaskell llnd others, iin No_ 2 Webfer, Section 24­15-
20.
GuH Coast
'l'he West Columbia Pool in Texas and the old
Edgerly Pool in South Louisiana were tbe 00.17 en..
tricts in the Gult Coast Field tbat showed eoa­pletioDs
above tbe average in the past week. TIle
Webb County 8.od light gravity Somerset fields ee.eb
show completed wells of the n\"'ernge 'Output. A
wildcat in Caldwell County, the Prairie Lea Prodoe­tlon
Company's Ko. 1 Merriweatber, is I1wabbtDc
100 barrels a day at 2,100 feet. The oil Is 28.0 ct.
grees gravity. On the west side of the Hull Dome,
the Biggins Oil & ~""'uel Company's ::\"0. 4 MercbaDt,
is 60wing 1,500 barrels. In the West Columbia POOl
the Bumble Oil & Refining Company deepened No.
S J apbet, an old well. and It started olI at 2,GOO
barrels at 2,925 feet. Results in the Orange Pool
were m06Uy from worked. oyer wells. At Pierce
Junction, Snowden &; ~cSweener's ~o. G Cain.
whicb had quit, blew out when the bit was run
and flowed 3.000 barrels in a day and then sanded.
Tbp ca ing collap-.ed. The Edgerly Pool, Ln Oat­('
11 ParIsb, Louisisn3, sbows a 500 barrel well in
the (iult Refining CompallY's l'o. as Brigbt~Penn.
The best of the lAlredo district wells was a 3Q().
oorrel producer of the Ross-.Amigoes Oil Company.
which extended the field nearly a ball mUe easterly.
In the wildcat regious, the Houston Oil Company
abandoned at 3,450 feet its :No.2 Pippin, Big Rill.
Jefferson County. In Brazoria County the '£ran.
.continental Oil Coml)flny abandoned at 4,000 feet ita
No. G Breen. The northwest side of the West Col..
llIubia Pool showed the biggest well of the week, the
Wicbitn Petroleum Compalfy"s Ko. 2 Helms, a
worked-o,er hole, which responded with a 4,~
bnrrel initial pt'ooucUon, 22 per cent b.s. and
water.
Ceotral \Vest
. '.rbe. old I"imn Field iu Ohio hod
pletion. Cbarles :11. Gish's te-st on bis own farm,
wblch nfter 0 sbol settled to a 1Q..ba rrel well, It
located in Higbland 'l'ownsblp, south of the to
o! Defiancc and mar open another nen.
pool. In Plain TownsbJp, Wood Count1, •
well 10 credltad to the ProcJeMI... OS
Ko. 8 Cue .. oue. In SeclI!l!I
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