Last Installment
(Continued From Pa«« 9)
porosity resulting from weathering
and solution at the erosion surface
has also been important in con
trolling oil accumulation.
On the west flank of the Sweet
grass arch and westward into the
disturbed belt, Increasing thick
nesses of unit MA may be a:
and porous zones should be
an" more numerous than
arch. There are possibilities for ac
cumulation by stratigraphic trap
along the flank of the arch, and
drilling in the disturbed belt may
be expected to penetrate horizons
which are equivalent to at least part
of the productive zones encountered
at Turner Valley and Jumping
Pound in Alberta. Drilling on the
Reagan (Twin River) structure, T.
37 N., R. 7 W., found substantial
highly porous and
permeable dolomites of unit A, but
production has been hampered by
difficulties of water shut-ofl In the
mountains and elsewhere, porous
zones associated with saecharoidal
or coarsely crystalline dolomites are
common in unit MA, often with hy
drocarbon residue in the voids.
Devonian.—In outcrop, the sac
charoidol dolomites
subunit DA» exhibit persistent
zones of Intergranular and fine
vuggy porosity with effective por
rcent.
on the
amounts of oil in
Devonian
osity ranging from 8 to 16 pet
. Where penetrated by wells,
equivalent basal portion of unit DA
contains similar porous zones, al
though the porosity in the sub
surface is somewhat limited by an
hydrite occupying the pore spaces.
Several wells drilled in the Kevin
Subnurst field to the base of unit
DA encountered large volumes of
carbon dioxide under high pressure,
and, In some cases, sprayed minor
amounts of amber oil. A well drilled
to the base of the Devonian on
Whitlash dome (section 13 on the
chart) penetrated a fair thickness
of saturated dolomite near the base
of unit DA, but permeability proved
insufficient for commercial produc
tion. Analysis' of cores from the sat
urated zone indicates porosity
jjercent, permeability 18-26 md.,
gravity 32*. Devonian strata above
the basal portion of unit DA bear
little promise, and it Is evident that
operators who consider testing hori
zons below the top of Mlssissipplan
unit MB should be prepared to pen
etrate a considerable thickness of
bit-consuming chert in the basal
Mlssissipplan and drill from 500 to
700 feet below the toji of the De
vonian for an adequate test.
the
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'Cooper, C. L. personal communi
cation.
'McCourt, J. H., personal commu
nication.
During the 10-year period 1933-43
the cost of finding oil in the United
States Increased four-fold. Using
the initial estimate of the reserves
discovered, In 1944 the cost of find
ing oil was 58.5 cents per barrel;
from 1936-38 average discovery
was 13.8 cents. These figures do
include the cost of developing new
oil pools discovered, nor the cost
equipping maintaining and oper
ating the wells.
cost
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T HE S TATE OF MONTANA SENDS
GREETINGS TO:
RUTH AUSTIN JOHNSON, DORIS O.
TENNEY and J. DOWELL ÖUVER, the
will and
Austin,
Deceased, and the trust thereby created,
and to each of them:
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be and appear before the above named
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Dated this 7th day of September, 1945
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By ELEANOR McKENZIE,
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The Sunburst
Badger Says
A loyely little old lady spent days
working on a pair of men's pajamas
which she contributed to the Red
Cross. "1 made them myself," she
said sw
every de
no opening in the front of the pants.
The inspector hated to hurt her
feelings out he explained the error
to her. The dear old lady's face fell.
Suddenly, however, she brightened.
"Couldirt you give them to a bache
lor?" she said.
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A professional reformer was ac
costed in a hotel lobby by a young,
pretty, intelligent looking girl.
Sensing an opportunity to do some
thing for her, he invited her to sit
down and have a talk with him.
"Tell me," he said to her, "Just
how such a bright and pretty young
girl like you happened to get Into
such a racket?"
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except that there was
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