Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 26

fESW V' iryVi wws yOk '52sf)gr -10B CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Wel May 23 1057 ym i Duval County Gains 3 New Wildcat Locations TGT Has Deep Aransas Test a 20-minuie drillstem lest through 'Aransas Countv has gainpd Li line and 2000 fe-t fiom line o( John Nelson A-910 on a 2500-arre HO feet from the north 2000 feet from the east 19 scales 1320 feet west of 1 Driscoll a 5 500-foot 2175 feet west of 1 Southern Life In-which felled at 5050 Duval County him gamed lora-iWehh Cmnix Imp and tinni for thi-ee new wildcat north of Rm-knrr No Deepest of the trio is a 6200- gsxscr foot project scheduled by Atlantic Project is almost a mile south-Refining Co 15 miles southwest east of Katz No H-1 Peters di-of Freer at the No A-l Vweri gauged foj- hairels Peters of 388 gravity oil plus (12 perrent Drill site is 330 'feet from the water dail from perforations at north line and MO feet from the 5693-5708 feet west line of Gussett Survey Blaine Dunbar of Iyigvieu IbI ineo No 162 A-1206 on a 160-acre lease plans a 60nofom widcat five mile surance Cn er! nurtn he east Survey 166 ease It is ine and 'ine of lik Pmjrci I'mnn No luster and '-inch chokes lrom IL536-83 feet Bottomhole flowing pressure was 1070 and 1155 pounds and shutm pressure was 17111 pounds I oca-I Kin is on a -164 15-acre lease In Blossman Survey A-'W Getty Oil Cn (Tidewater Oil cation fora 9 600-fool wildcat eignt miles souiliwes of Austwell by Tennessee lias Transmission Co The No 6 Henncll ticker Is M0 feet (nun the south line and 1640 feet from the east line of a 2' 6 96-acre lease and Blork 1 on TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF RESEARCH GROWTH The above photograph shows the 44-building Gulf Oil Research Center at Harmarville Pa where three new laboratories are being formally opened today The research center began operations on this site in 1935 the common line of lnts 18 and 19 Cn i No 1 State Tract 124 wildcat I in Maria Jesusa Ximenes Survey 3' a miles northeast of Rockport 'A-224 Lucas Subdivision It is in Aransas Bay logged to 8700 was slated to run 9H Lucas 1 1450 feet from the west survey feet and lt is about 2000 feet south of northeast of Realnos feet Bristow 1 Peiers a 2 532-foot His No 1 Clara Driscoll Estate lake I I Union will he oieratnr duster four miles east of the is 1260 feel from the most south- for a slated fi 000-foot wildcat two miles southwest of Realitos at the Wildcat to 4500 OIL NEWS Slated in Hidalgo iNn 1 Miller Drill siic where ground elevation is 478 3 feet is 330 feet from the southeast line 'Highway 359 1 and 330 feet from the east line of a 370-acre lease in Santos Garcia Grant It i about 3' miles nnrth-norlhwest of oil production and 1 miles southwest of Texam No an 1 Iuln a fiOl'lfoot dry hole It Ilillcrest Oil Co of San Antonio is 100 feet from the south line No I Shaffer wild- cit I1 1 milr northwest of Reah- the operator this project exception to Spacing Rule 1 line inch rasing wwrr 1 a Located more than a mile south- The scheduled 10500-fnot Cl)b Wildcat Mat Refugio County line ject is on a 320-acre lease the prnjert is 231673 feet south- west of Wilson No 4 Ocker oiler 1 I Humble Sets Testing an open hole zone at jr II rx 831X1 feel was underway yesterday 1(! IJC I'lJ A in Western Natural Gas Co No Ginther Warren and Gnlher cllalMi wildnit 4Vl and otherc No 1 0 Killam northeast of Lamar HI 1- MldliIM18 deep Webb County Edwards Lime The prnjert which is bottomed wildcat 14 miles east-northeast of -M2 feet had earlier shown a 0l' 4 haf Jiin HriunT in hu working pi-rssure or 151 pounds scheduled a Kleberg County semi- Laredo was drilling in shale and an1 Vlp(ii(1 fw ()f Htho mil() wildcat in the northeart portion i tide-south southeast of Flour Bluff in the lme below 13505 feet with mud an(j 'hP ooo-fnot water rushion on Kleberg County's Clievmn logging unit attached The test in lamtai Field 13'i miles the Pescadito itructure is in K' Bettis and Shepherd Dallas plana another County slim hole wildcat six miles south of Pharr at the No Inc of Hidalgo Tri-Mark Slates San Pat Wildcat 1 Tirso Garza aiw rnrn WMt 'ine tos has been plugged and ahan Located afrnit 15 miles south- of lot 3S7 Connally Kelly Suh- Honed at 6021 feet The failure east and the same distance south- division on a three-acre lease is in Share 1 Santos Garcia Grant west of other slim hole tests hv depth is to 4500 feet Tile firm's No 1 Gulf of Mexico Stale Tract 819 is located 5940 feet from the south and 660 feet from the west line of State Tract 819 Die test which is on a 128ft- Calhoun Try Tests Perfs One Coring Tri-Mark Oil Co of Corpus Paul Subdivision of Coleman-Ful- Killam and Hurd and others of Christ! has scheduled a new 4030- Pasture Co Land was wash- The test is about a mile west dn No 6 Juan Benavides sla- San Patricio County wildcat1 below 9630 feet in the No- nri1 mrC''T' of operators No 1 Rarnes which tpd 3sX)-fln Thanksgiving (Dinn) five miles southwest of Taft "JJ yillos Pasture GC4SFRR Survey REt UGIO TEST failed at 10379 feet Field test five miles east-southeast The No2 Izircne Rons and 1806 It la permitted to 17500 feet Tn QTnT J7trV Hargrave Oil Corp and of Brum was making hole below others is 660 feet fmm the south 12 00n Ieet 01 Mid-Continent Oil Co I I il ft Colson No 1 Kathryn Jackson Carpenter Sub- and west line of Tact 2 Ross 1 1 mmm ti ii a i division No 1 El Mesquite Grant Subdivision on a 3088 acre Kern nmg i trp No 7 A Villarreal wildcat 2 gas-distillate discovery five miles Fn0 Production Co of Alice No lease It is 2300 feet southwest A Giopelas East Mathis Field mjiPg northwest of Oilton has north of Monte Cristo was shutin 5 CanaJcs proposed 3150-foot Ja- of the No 1 location in been plugged and abandoned at on unreported perforations in 5'- boncila Creek (Friol Field test Project scales 1900 feet north Sibrtlvil(fon beP complel- 3500 feet The failure 1 in I inch casing which was set on 6' miles northwest of Santa Cruz of Bunte No 1 Rous a 3 283-foot for a daily open flow of 1084 Garrett Survey 768 bottom at 10120 fet The pro- dn ed S'Surtiln m' haTpla of 36 4 Kravity pipline Theljohn Oil Co No 2 jm IVtorh ks lin 0( 0m pry- IW 11 Crm' 535 TsS in' lmm £2 gory 3h55H-61 feet in casing on pump for 11 barrels of 218 grav- bottom at 5830 feet Gas-oil ratio1 jty oil plus 10 percent water from was 390-1 and flowing tubing pres- 60-shot perforations at 869-79 feet sure was 325 pounds Location Is in rasing at 1155 feet on a 160-acre lease 54 feet off bottom J11 Manlpy Corpu In the same field 20 miles north-Chnsti No 5 Keeton slated west freer John Pirhinson 6 000-foot East Mathis field test No C-1 Watkins folate ha been three miles east of Mathis is 330 10 northeast of Stanotrx No State gas-distillate producer Standard Oil Co of Texas 9-18-78 Statp Chevron Field miles nouthwest of Port in the Gulf of Mexico has to test section at feet This pmjert earlier and squeezed section 8708-18 feet Gulf Oil Corp Humblp Shell No R-1 Block 772 County tidelands wildcat miles south-west of Port in the Gulf n( Mpxico was below 12600 feet with i mud Arkansas fiel Oil Corp Tennessee Gas Transmission Cn No 1 Maude Traylor Calhoun County wildcat miles east of Point Comfort was drilLstem testing at 8198-8206 feot The scheduled 9500-foot project is in Thomas Sutherland Survey A-37 Mangum Royal Oil and Gas Corp and Welder 12-947 No well 31 Aransas perforated 8006-13 repec-foraled from and Nueces 113 Aransas drilling 17-pouml No 1 State Tract 911 Nueces tpxf in the Gulf of Mexico eight miles southeast of Flour Bluff was drilling below 5416 feet on an 85QO-foot permit No 1 Roy Adams wildcat just dM f1(1 5 4 mil of Mr northwest of Long Mott was mak-lcfdpf preparing to perforate Ing hole below 6860 feet and sche-an(1 tt fhroURh 5rin(lh inR duled to cons at 6960 feet Per- jg bottom at 7520 feet mitted to 9300 feet the test ia in Comp1etlnK (lt)m the Miguel Cortez Survey A-9 at 7 0R1 feft and E- Southern Minerals Corp No 3 at 7 477 ePt pianned American National Insurance Co wildcat Hi miles southwest of sand L)r- V'1 feet from the south line and 1202-: r- nd DriIin "nd No' 1 Mar hn7t 67 feet from the east line of a 140- rimirn rpanf "nd Heilman Nueces County wildcat Mnd T'rii acre lease and Section 33 George Casimro Grant four mile southwest of Clarkwo of Welder AL "T'k i jm WcIls Tcst 'been plugged and abandoned at Spartan Drilling Co No 2 Justin No 8506 feet MeiTitt West Shields Field pro- Pnvery The strike which produces Tri Mark Oil Co No 1 Driscoll 3prt miles southeast of Robs- fmm perforations at 5561-63 feetj pluR ad and ahanilont at fee fmm the south line and Lm- 1( Bock 67 fppt fi-om the paKf Imp of a 140- Live Oak Try Below 12000 3 Port O'Connor in Clete Garcia DeWilt Wildcat Survey A-14 logged to 3998 feet and was to drill ahead to 5000 AwHltS OrtlCTS feet and log on the slated 6000- foot permit Jake Hamon and A Eh- Estate wildcat four miles north- on a 4 jQO-foof permit Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp No 4 man No 1 Edward Kleberg west of Corpus Christ! in Spartan Drilling Co No 2 Guar- Manlh and AprJ wa "dMisi'tate Jim Wells County wildcat wildcat two miles northeast of RpnpllPq 7 18 State Tract 72 North San Antonio DeWitt County Roeder Field area MfirpRor Survfy vw has been antv Title Trust Co Trustee an pight miPa 01 801 Calliham in Ixils Ayers Survey Bey Field lest 31 mile wildcat 4' miles wes-northwest abandoned at 7099 slated 8500-fnot Minnie Bock West Sty piiine oiK saml A'2- wa" bottomed st 12763 feet southwest of Seadnft was drilling (A Yorktown was waiting on or-K vnij nrni iii grainy pipeline on nwn me same has been plugged and abandoned below 2034 feet It earlier aet 125 ders at a total depth of 10010 teel- 4 of Robstown in Survey 52 was feet of 16-inch conductor and 1525 feet The project is In Antonio Sinclair Oil 4 Gas Co No 1 drjjjnR below 6731 feet lOVinch Perntitted to Sidic Survey A-418 State Nueces Bay Tract 692 East Kirkwood and Morgan Inc of ISm TTnornr Field 8000 feet it is in Guadalupe Bay Harkina 4 Co and George A whlte Point Field well eight miles San Antonio No 7 Kleherc 11 Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp at 6 385 feet and cleaning out junk Permit Runnels Kleberg Texkan Oil Co snd Thomas is to 14000 feet wildcat seven miles east Crews No 1 Young wild-j The Atlantic Refining Co No ipra- awaiting orders rat four mile northwest of Alice Baker slated PprmdCd Kleberg Nn 1 County of Riv- st 7518 has been plugged and abandoned at 5511 feet liie failure is in La Tinaja de Lara Survey 9 Texkan Oil Co No 2 Mikeska area wildcat six miles Survey A-232 ninjB southeast of George West in Pat' Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp No 1 Texkan Oil Co No 2 Wr Jsheeran Survey A-585 was mak- Beckman May Friol Field Thomeston was preparing to cubic feet of dry gas mrnhwvsMhJ'of1 iHLarre'foase arM Dauhprl San An" drillstem test at 7726-7733 feet Production was through perfor- and w7 fppt hp gouthcast H' Stroman- Jim shuetlp' AIice FipId tPt mile ing hole below 12706 feet in shale test four miles east of Riviera ation fmm 3920-32 feet in 9 line of the lease and Section 205 Field jthwest of ce inch casing at 4189 feet Tubing Bishop Subdivision of Palo Alto 12 le southwest of Tf Hebbronville has been gauged for permit It is in Collins uuu-iooi jacason uiumy wuqcbi wwg i PrfMUre on 16-M-mch choke was jb It scales -MWeet from daiy now 6 barrels of Farm Lots Subdivision Lots 20 five miles northeast of Point Com- Deep lCe Wildcat 797 pounds and shutin pressure 928 nast line of ne section plUB i percent and 21 fort in Bell Survey A-7 -w-i 'pounds Location is on a 300-acre 1 a'3' water wu drilling in shall and land be- Below 7460 Feet Rawer and 3000 feet south-south M-T pounds mud and mud a bplow 'm a 5500-foot 13000-foot permit It in Block logger attached The project has Kochg pirst Subdivis had from 30 to 40 units of gai in ion of Rviera Farm Landa Gab the mud iriel Trevino Survey A-232 lease Production is from perforations east of the No 1 oiler Ramada Oil 4 Gas Co and low 8525 feet Tex-Star Oil and Gas Corp and Arkansas Fug) Oil Corp No 1 Hugh Fitzgerald of Dallas No a Boothe Be County wild- Brooks Gasser Has 21 Million at 3632-90 feet in 51s-inch casing three feet off bottom at 3703 feet Flow is through P-35 choke with 75 pounds tubing pressure and gas-nil ratio is 174-1 The well is on a 288-acre lease Refining Co No in FI Sordo Grant Block 7 Gorman-Gierhart-Howe of San TB9 OM BOtTBBOV KARSITWAIIV OBMAJ6DK2M Author Twain jointd the many famous Ameriautt toko PrttistdOIdCmo-aitdaijofeditefUH atkbfaooritetaoem I IJ'iSiiSiUra a- 01 Karnes Test east of Port Lavaca is 330 feet v11- WM drilling below 7460 Iran the northwest snd south feet It earlier ran a log at 7380 Knlnir l-V lines of a 52-acre lease in feet Permitted to 9000 feet it is 11111 Wick sham Survey iB Am Walker Survey A-328 Drilling in shale below 9473 Humble Oil 4 11 Kleberg nnn oi l- t- i feet Pasture Brooks County Vihoras ZT V' S' atpd Field well five miles ado mOOO-foot permit was under- Shelly of Corpus Christi on a Novia) Field test 16 miles south- Mew Bee Projert southwest of Hebbronville i 466 aiiBMlntA AMM BVIIIIlwral IPI ilnl 1 Charles Griffith wild- 'cat two milps northwest of Papa- way completed Dakamnunt Exploration Corp of lote was drilling below 3908 feet io" Corp Nn 1 Dora Sonnehorn flow 0j 2 at Texas Eastern Transmit tm i 11 million 3hic fp1 Houston No 3 Kessler pro-on a 5700-font permit It earlier Karnes County wildcat six miles fppt of gas plus one barrel of 572 Prado Survey 87 on a 1aa' posed BeMTounty North spotted 8N-lnch casing around 104 rt of Runge in William Wal-igravity "distillate to 22500 cubic i0000-8 lace Survey A-363 fret of gas daily A core at 9388-94 feet recovered Potion is from perforations StaiT Wildcat Drills Beeville (Hockley) Field test eight feet miles northwest of Beeville is Appell Drilling Co Nn 1 1200 feet from the southwest line Burke Wilson Pnesta Creek Field CTl 765(V62 feet in 5Vs-lnch casing and 1600 feet from the southeast test two miles southeast of Bee- five feet of firm sand and one-at gofiO (pet with total depth 9000 Wood Brothers 4 T-nghrn No line of a 4386-acre lease in Pat-jvllle was drilling below 1109 fret half foot of black shale Top three (pet Flowing through 7-32 choke il Guerra Estate Starr Coun-rick Carroll Survey A-12 It scales on a 5000-foot permit Location feet had good odor and fluores-tubjng pressure was 1390 pounds'ty wildcat 31s mile south-south-1800 northeast No 1 and 1500 is in Anna Burke Survey A-5 jeence At 9394-9400 feet recovery huhn pressure was 2765 east of Delmita was drilling be- feet northwest of the No 2 both was five feet of hard tight sand pounds Isication is In George! low 4600 feet on a 6600-foot per-' 1- nn w1h spotted fluorescence and Hodges Survey 70 nn a 10960-mit Location ia in Share 25 Sub-j some shale Coring at 9400-10 feet acrp lease 'division Santa Cruz Grant yielded nine feet of shale with thin Victoria Try Set A Security Drilling Co crew of trpak Mnd and one foot of 'San Antonio is scheduled to move very hard sand with spotted Amoy Minerals Corp of Refugio iin late this week at Winn fluoresence tot Field and W- McCurdV An' At "rovPry test five miles southeast of Inez tonio No 1 The La Salle Co La'J- ltvt 01 hard sand with spotted i fluorescence 114 feet of very ix miexjUndy ard ale and one-half CnltoGr 0f Per' of tort sand with good tion 45 It acales 1 560 fret west-' 0 frpt- be test is fluorescence At 9416-24 recovery southwest of a gawiistillate pro- in Action 21 Bland and Nelson wbs ooe-half foot of very duoer on the Ressman fee Subdivision of O'Connor Ranch h8ht fine grain sand five feet of Jhard fine grain very shaley sand and one-half feet of shale At 9424-30 feet recovery was six feet of very hard slightly sandy shale xbe Hurricane Map Two-Way Radio Communications Te letter tana Drilling Caa-hweters Oil Campania and the Oil ladiastry in June the 16th Caller-Times Horiz OHS' By Frank La Ros Complete Oilfield Transportation Service Jake Juntos Sr Corpus new independent oil operator will Chrisd lease broker anc oil well! have his father Hugh Gill as promoter suffered a broken bone landman snd Sullivan as geologist Yes It's Hurricane Season and we'll have another map on which you can chart their course throughout the Atlantic Caribbean and Gulf areas and hope they wind up in a trap! Taste lighter milder 86 Proof Old Crow and you9U understand why ii leads the way in the nationwide trend to mild better tasting straight bourbon in hia left ankle Sunday in ah accident at the Oso golf course The well known oilman is con- Tra atari Trucks Malar Gradars lulMesan A Co -Gulf Oil Corp ducting business from his retV No 1 Huff and others denes at Claire Lana Apartment Goliad County Waat Mission VaL 1409 Arlington Drive ley Field test 1 miles southeast of Ander has been plugged and abandoned at 9116 feet The fail-in Robert Milby Survey is Heidi Bros TRUCKS KBNTUCKV STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 100 Proof Bottled in Bond available as usual Sunday June 16 Paa Americas Petroleum Corp No Greer scheduledjure 12000-foot Cameron County wild-A-199 cat 114 miles north-northeast of Los Frexnns was making hole! General Crude Oil Co of Hihis-below 7642 feet ton No 1 A Crocker deep Kenedy County wildcat six miles WlUlun Gill eko for the west of Sarila was drilling in past seven years has been gen- sandy shale holnw 7948 feet with Sullivan City Phone 2401 Alice Freer Phene 4-I4J6 Phans 2511 cA to gwnlnw THE OLD CROW 0JSTILIUYCO FRAKKHIL CO til mud logger attached Tho pmjert ia A Crocker Survey 8 A-2L aril manager hero tor WU Ham Carr has opened up an of- flea at S12 Wilaoa Tower Tha ran correlation log at 8500 feet A lu imniBiahnS.