Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 16

IN NEW MEXICO 11-A TIIE ABJISNF REPORTER-NEWS Abilene Texas Sunday Morning April 2ft 1953 Production in Non-Communist World Off During February 8 Projects Slated for Lea Field mports for this region This total la neari ly 515900 barrels dally above thJ lowest point reached immediately after the loss of Iran's 600900 td loro Saudi Arabian production waa ur 700900 barrela dally of productU mlltee endorsed a report yester TULSA April 25 Despite re-eordrbreaking production In the Middle East a sharp decline in crude-oU output in Vtnesuela and mailer decrease in the United States caused a net drop of about 83000 barrels dally In Uie non-Com-munlst world total in February The OU and Gaa Journal reported today Venexuelan production fell 75000 barrels daily for the second monthly decline from the record high level reached last December The Journal pointed out that the Febru-ary total of 1717100 barrels dally waa 61 par cent below February 1952 Total Free World production of erode In February waa 11624300 barrels dally Of the decrease of 83000 barrels dally from January the United States accounted for about 13JW0 barrels daily Tfan rest of the drop waa the net decline In foreign fields The 2956400 barrels dally produced In the Middle East In Ftbru-ary represented an all-time peak stales to promote conservation Invited other states to Join the compact He noted that since the IOCCs winter meeting "we have added two member states Nebraska and North Dakota and two associate members Alaska and Nevada North Dakota and Nevada slgn ed the compct today Thompson's Problem Thompson outlining effects of foreign oil on domestic production raid Texas law requires the Railroad Commission to limit oil production to the amount necessary to meet the market demand When foreign oil reaches the United States this lowers the amount of domestic oil needed to meet the market demand and the states are forced to cut domestic production he explained The IOCCs public lands com- day that would approve a MU before the Senate which would give the states ownership of lands in the puMie domain Thompson's criticism of foreign oil Imports cams as most governors attending the session Indicated they favorod reduction of Imports Gov Shivers of Texas the state hardest hit by foreign oil's movement into the market said ho hoped leglelatlon" by Congress would not be needed to lower Imports "1 think It should be a matter of business statesmanship on the part of the oil owners to cut ho said Gov Dan Thornton of Colorado agreed with Shivers that the oU Industry should limit Its imports without legislation 11900 barrels dally In February whU output In the shnlkhdom of Qatar hit a new record of 03709 barrels dally These gains more than offset 'small decrease) in Ku wait and Iraq Total production of crude Id Europe showed a alight drop in February Tnla resulted from a decrease In the Netherlands where the single field was cloned in for a short time following the heavy floods which halted refining operations Total non-Communlst world production In February waa more than 550000 barrels dally or 5 per cent over February 1952 United State output rose 27 per cent during thig period Foreign fields on the other hand showed an per cent galif NEW ORLEANS Laws to limit Imports o( foreign oU were asked today by an oil association attorney Russell Brown general counsel 'for the Independent Petroleum Association of America said oil companies have failed to achieve cooperation In limiting Imports and congressional action Is ths only alternative The spokesman for 15000 domestic oil producers told delegates to the spring meeting of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission IIOOC) that foreign oil Is ruining state conservation programs Texas Oil Cut Oil production allowables were cut back recently In Texas Oklahoma Louisiana and Kansas while oil Imports were rising to record highs Brown said "As cheap oil floods the United States stale conservation bodies will be forced by lessened demand for their oil to make further cutbacks" the attorney said during the closing session of the IOCC Brown's warning was supported by Ernest Thompson ehalrman of the Texas Railroad Commission Nock Deep In Oil Thompson declared "we are up to our necks in oil" and also called for a limitation of Imports Gov Edward Am of Kansas chairman of the IOCC which Is sponsored by 26 oil producing In output Crude-Oil Production Daily Average Output In Barrels of 42 Gallons Jan 1953 6555308 1792100 170900 107000 213300 189 9CJ 49100 60900 780901 M32OT NEW GEOLOGIST Clarence Barnett is now a geologist for Continental Oil Abilene office Before coming here he was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of investigation at New York He is a native of Cleburne and graduated from Texas Christian University where he received a degree in geology Mr and Mrs Barnett are presently living at 466 Clinton St (Staff Photo) Country or Area United States Venezuela Canada Colombia Mexico si i aw Other Weston Hemisphere 190900 Egypt and North Africa 49200 Europe 50200 Saudi AraMa 792400 Iraq 528000 Kuwait 796000 Jther Middle Bait 137200 Far East 321400 Free World Total 11924900 Estimated Russia Satellites 1175000 World Total 12798900 Fab 1I52( 6987400 1928400 117600 lOSJOO 221400 181700 48500' 53900 864900 225800 648800 11972900 1958900 12130600 Eight more projects have been staked in Lea County Fields for immediate drilling Sinclair Oil Gas Company win dig Na 1 Fields as a -Wolf-camp test in the Gladioli FIs Id of northeast Lea It Is 330 feet from north and east lines of Section 25-12a-37e and elated for a 9900-toot bottom Amon Carter No 4 IIlll-Fed-eral will be dug as a 1900-foot test In the Teague Field of southeast Lea Site Is 1-900 feet from north and east lines of Section 34-23e-25e Skrily Oil Company No 3-R Mexico will be dug In the Eidaon (Pennsylvanian) Field of central Lea County Location is (60 feet from north and 1930 feet from west lines of Section 18-16i-35e It will go to 10775 feet Amerada Petroleum Corporation will dig Na 1-B State-Tulk in the Tulk Wolfes mn) Field of centraL east Lea It is 2223 feet from north knd 680 feet from west lines of Sort Ion 5-15s-32e It is slated for a 9750-foot bottom Shell Oil Company No 1-EA State Is a new test In the Echols Field area Sjte Is 600 feet from north and 658 feet from east lines of Section 12-U37e It will drill to 11800 feet Magnolia Petroleum Company staked sites for two projects in the Denton (Devonian) Field of central-East Lea No 12 Pope will be dug 1980 feet from south and west lines of Section 28-14-37e Magnolia No 13 Pope win be dug 1980 feet from east and 880 feet from north lines of Section 35-14s-37e Both tests are to be drUled to 12700 feet Humble Oil Refining Company Na 2 Townsend will be dug as 10750-foot Pennsylvanian test the EidSon Field of central Lea County Drlllsite Is 600 feet from south and east lines of Section 7-16s-35e Sinclair Oil Gas Company has completed No 1-251 State as a one-half-mile south and west extension to the Lazy (Permo-Penn-sylvanlan) field of northwest Lea County Operator reported a dally flow of 1632 barrels of 384-gravity oil through a three-quartera-lnch choke and perforations at 9637-586 feet Location for the new producer is 330 feet from east and 990 feet from south lines of section Green Field Well Flows 92 Barrels of Oil in 13 Hours 131900 317400 11707500 1175000 12982500 Pipeline System Due to Expand in Near PAD tial of 4176 barrels of 38 gravity oil-It la pumping from an open hole at 1706-30 feet pay section topped at 1700 feet West et al of Stamford No 1 Bartosh was spotted five miles south of Stamford in the Jones County Regular Field Site Is on an 80 acre lease 980 feet from the north and east tines of the northwest quarter In Section 23 Survey C-ntract depth is 1900 feet with rotary Location was announced for Rob-inson-Puckett Inc It American Liberty Oil Co No 4 Pit-tard located in the Anson Town-site Flippen Field Site for the 2-990-foot rotary try Is on a 200 aero lease 550 feet from the east and 3420 feet from the south lines of Section 15 Block 1 Survey Onyx Oil Co et al of AMlene No'S 31 Blankenship was spotted six miles southwest of Anson In the East Bartlett Field Contracted for 3500 feet with rotary site Is 990 feet from the west and 1263 feet from the north lines of A Wagner Survey 206 1 Humble Oil Refining Co No 2 31rs Annie Kingsberry Section 52 Block 2 SP Survey was plugged at 3177 feet Location was five miles west of Anson in the Anderson (East Bartlett) Field Jones County oil fields hive sdd-ed three new producers In the Green Upper Guiuight Field seven miles northwest of Noodle Bells Wells Oil Co et aL No 2-A Jennie Green Bliss Survey wss completed No 2-A Green during the 13-hour potentlsl test gsuged 0271 bsrrels of 40 grsvlty oil Flow wss through a 1-4-Inch choke with packer set on the casing and 50 pounds tubing pressure from 40 perforations ft 3196-99 feet Operator set the casing on the bottom of the hole at 3227 feet Gas-oil ratio was 1000-L Potential was filed for Grisham-Hunter Corp Abilene No 1 Riddle Section 1 Block 2 Survey located six miles east of Hamlin In the Riddle-Swastika Field Eight-hour potentlsl was 88 bsrrels of 403 gravity oU for a ral-culated dally flow of 264 barrels Completion was on a 1-2-Inch choke with packer set on the easing and 40 pounds tubing pressure from perforations at 3123-29 feet Operator set the casing at 3138 feet A Carr Dallas No 4 Sophia Monaoa 330 feet from the south and west lines of the northeast quarter In Section 23 Survey waa completed two and one-half miles northwest of Lueders No 4 onion had a daily poten gan Wisconsin and Minnesota refineries on the way Another which may be completed by next fall will run 700 miles from Edmonton to Vancouver In Canada A spur line la to serve a 35000 barrel (daily capacity) refinery scheduled to be built by General Petroleum Corp at Fern-dale Wash VMD said that in 1951 approximately three-fourths of the crude moved from wells to refineries was through- pipelines Barges and tankers handled most of the rest Gasoline consumption In 1952 climbed a new peak of 464 billion gallons an Increase of 25 MUion over 1951 the American Petroleum institute reports California continued the top consuming state with 44 Milton the Gulf Coast 657 miles the Rancho line from West Texas to Houston 457 miles and the Sinclair line from Drumright Okie to East Chicago 683 mile' Iq addition to these lines for crude oil lines for carrying petroleum products have been built In the same period from Baton Rouge to Charlotte 700 miles (Plantation Pipeline Co) at cost of 52 million dollars and Phillips Petroleum Co hai expanded Its 533-mile line from Bonier to Chicago at a cost of 21 million dollars and many other shorter lines have been completed Now building Is a crude lino from Superior Wis to Ontario Canada to connect with a line from Alberta to Superior which could supply petroleum to Mlchi- Officers' Renamed DALLAS President Charles Nash of Fort Worth and other officers were re-elected Friday as the Southern Wholesale Hardware Association ended its convention cbeNtee er If QHg Mtfe Jewwerw 382 Pine Ph HOPE SAND CONFIRMATION COMPLETED IN CALLAHAN turaetnegiaml 4-4000 A Horwitz No 1 Troy Gifford Section-1 Block SP Survey east offset to the recent Hope Sand discovery for Callahan 'County five miles north of Clyde has been completed as a producer By CHARLES HASLET WASHINGTON April HI -More mileage probably will be added soon to the rapidly expanding network of oil pipelines the Petroleum Administration for Defense (PAD) predicted today No estimate of the mileage or costs were available but the agency said more than 12000 miles of oil pipeline had been built In the last 24 years Despite steel shortages 1952 was the banner year to date for construction of pipelines for transnort-lng crude oil and products such as gasoline kerosene and heating olli Position Improved "Because of this great construction achievement we are in a far better position to oil our regular civilian economy our defense mobilization economy even an all-out war effort If It should come to eald Richard Nelson Jr director of the supply and transportation division of PAD Total investment in the countrjrs oil pipelines is estimated by PAD at well above two billion dollars This network has a dally capacity of some seven million barrels of crude and 14 million barrels of petroleum products Since fall of 1950 PAD has so-proved pipeline construction estimated to cost about 800 ''million dollars 12000 Miles Of Pipe Of the more than 12000 miles of i oO pipeline put into operation in 24 years PAD said 7000 miles was for the long distance transportation of erode 4000 miles for petroleum products and 1600 miles for erode gathering lines mostly in new oil producing areas Mint lines move erode oil from producing fields to refineries or petroleum products from refineries marketing points PAD said the oil pineline system hat grown from 150000 mtles Sept 1 1950 to a present total of 163000 miles Since 1950 oil pipeline projects completed Include the Platte Pipeline Co line from Wyoming to Illinois more than 1057 miles at a rest of 67 million dollars and the Mid Valley Pipeline from Longview Tex to Lima Ohio about 1000 miles at a cost of 56 million West Texas Lines Recently opened were the line from the West Texas oil area to The weli gauged 168 barrels of 42 gravity oil per day iio flowing through Vi choke with packer on casing and Corral smartness pounds on tubing from open hole at 1787-95 feet Gasoil ratio was 426-1 A show was also found in the Cook at 175668 feet I A Parmer Abilene consultant and oil well servicing firm owner has an interest in the property and is to operate it for Horwitz for your leisure life with Arrow Dude Ranch Producers Gauged in 3 Eastern Runnels Fields sports shirts 495 Partner here are some of the best-looking sports shirts Three Runnels County fields have added new producers Geochemical Surveys No 2 A Traylor Moore Survey 360 West Crews King Sand Field has been completed for 7576 barrels of 42 gravity oil per day Production waa through 1084 choke with packer on cuing and 70 pounds on tubing from six perforations at 2275-77 feet Total lepth was 2900 feet Casing was et at 2997 GOR was 200- Thos Humphrey Sons No you've ever set eyes on! We hove a wonderful selection of Arrow Dude Ranch sports shirts for you Smart plaids and checks in all the colors you need to harmonize with your favorite slacks Expertly tailored for free and easy comfort across back ond shoulders neat no-bunch fit at the waistline With the famous Arafold collar that looks trim feels wonderful worn open or closed Every shirt made of Sanforized cotton (fabric shrinkage not more than 1 you BATHROOM COMPLETE ON ALL WALLS $QQ Average Sin Beth IscMa Leber Metwieli and Gwaraatee- Fineet Matal TMa to West Texet WEST TEXAS BRICK TILE COMPANY Get set for a handsome leisure life pick up your Arrow 1109 Walnut Dude Ranch sports shirts here today 5-A Tounget Section 32 Diai Survey Llndermann McMillan Field hat been completed for a gauge of 6555 barrels of 429 gravity oil in 14 hours Production was on-pump from open hole at 2953-62 feet Texas Pacific Coal Oil Co No I 11 Mrs Paxton Sr A 1 1 Tramper Survey 439 Hull Dobbs Field has been completed for 10488 barrels of 40 gravity oU in 24 hours flowing through 14-64 1 choke with packer qn casing and 500 pounds on tubing from 222 perforations at 3984-4000 feet and 4006-15 feet Total depth was 4-001 feet plugged back to 4929 Casing waa set at 4959 feet Gas-oil ratio was 944-1 TP staked No 3-A Lafoon I as a 4200-foot project in the same field 2310 feet from the west and 2920 feet from the south lines of A Tremper Survey Same No 1-B Walter I Lafoon la to be 2310 feet from the west and 3X50 feet from the south lines of the same sur-l vey Fulwiler Jr et aL No I B-4 Aldridge is to be a 4000-foot test in the Aldridge Field throe miles west of Goldsboro 1940 feet from the east and 602 feet from the south lines of GWTAP Survey 25 Geochemical will drill Na X-3 1 John Harris as a South Crews Field try three mllei southwest of Crews 467 feet from the north and 503 feet from the west lines of Lot 24 Cabrera Survey 514 Slated dtpth la 4000 feet Strike et al Houston I spotted No Charity PaOe as a Pace Fry Sand Field project two miles southeast of Wingate 2926 feet from the south and 4402 feet from the west lines of Forsyth Survey 450 Proposed depth la 4 800 feet Pethybridge-Erllch et al AM-1 lene staked an Elm Creek Field project eight mDes southeast of Winters 2000 feet from the south and 1985 feet from the west lines of Section 348 BBBicC Survey It Is slated for 4900 feet Robert King Ford Sheets Walton Drilling Co No 1 A Huffinea Section 521 Robert Cleav-1 er Survey wildcat five miles south of Winters has been abandoned at 4451 feet 'Rill Ml Bit 111 Mil HI III 111 'MHiiiik in Maaiis'i-is SU2 £12 Ofc JSiii CALEB REED'S STORE FOR men 1230 3rd.