Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 51

News News TUCSON, THURSDAY. JUNE 29. 1972 SECTION PAGE ONE Drilling For New Oil Near Eloy Proceeds In Secrecy cfl a The well is what drillers call a "tight hole." Visitors are not allowed on the rig floor or In the "mud-logging shack" where dirt samples from th well are collected and analyzed. McGregor was apologetic about it, but hfe was tight-lipped. "How much does it cost per day to drill here?" "I can't reveal that "How deep is the hola now?" "I can't say." Outside the chained-off well area, a "scout" from a cuh-petitor sat in his car for the third day in a row.

His job is to spy on the well drillers, to count the number of 30-foot lengths added to the drill and includes parts of Texas and Louisiana, has more than 300 -salt deposits. One of Arizona's five salt" areas is within Humble's leased land near ricacho, but McGregor would not say where it was located in relation to the well being drilled here. The town of I'icacho is four or five miles southwest of the well site. to time the drilling rate. From such sketchy information as that, he can get an idea of how deep the well is and what kind of formations the bit is cutting through, said McGregor.

The underground formations are important and, in fact, it is to find out about the geology of the area that Humble is drilling the well, officials say. The drilling permit Issued by the State Oil and Gas Con. servation Commission is for a 12,000 foot stratigraphic test. McGregor conceded one reason for Humble's purchase of the leases was the discovery of salt in five areas in the ba sin and range province of Ai zona. In other parts of the nation, oil is often found near salt.

The Important oil-producing Gulf Coast region, which By JAMES KISER Star Staff Writer ELOY Dan McGregor, a geologist for Humble Oil and Refining 6tood by a well-drilling rig surrounded by fertile farm-land four miles east of here and pointed southwest. "With those mountains sticking up right over there, it takes a pretty gutsy guy (company) to come out here and drill a well It's an area too risky for the common guy," he said. Traditional geological thinking agrees that where there are mountains, there have been upheavals underneath the earth's surface which like ly have destroyed any rock formations where oil could have been trapped, geologists say. Ever since Humble began jum 29, 30, jum" Search For Major Field Workmen add a 30-foot length of pipe to the drill at Humble Oil and Refining Co's test well four miles east of Eloy. The company says the well is a stratigraphic test: the dirt from the hole will be analyzed so geologists can tell what formations are under the surface of the earth.

The well is expected to be 12,000 feet deep. (James Kiser Photo) White Limited Sal Quantities last CHILDREN'S PLAYWEAR buying up oil leases on 1.2 million acres of land in central and southern Arizona last year, however, it has done few traditional things. In its attempt to find a major oil field like some in West Texas and California, the company spent about $1 million for leases which stretch in an arc from Nogales through Phoenix to Yuma. One official, Douglas Garrott, the firm's southwestern division exploration manager, has Route Of Power Line Still Being Opposed SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) State Planning Officer David King said Wednesday he has been in contact with the National Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in a renewed attempt to prevent the Tucson power line from crossing Manuelito 99 COMPARE Many styles to choose from: Infants' short sets, playsuits, Toddlers' short sets, Little girls' short sets, polo shirts.

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