Montana oil and mining journal. [volume], December 07, 1946, Image 1

About Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953

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Uum Extends Cut Bauk Lime Fay Area Two Miles
Crade of 40-Gravity Found
50 Feet Below Madison Top
That production of oil from the Madison limestone in the Cut
Bank field may be much more widespread than was recently be
lieved, has been emphasized in a completion by the
Company of California, extending the lime pay area of the field
more than two miles south of previous lime production boundaries.
The'well that got oil in the lime is the company's No. 7 on its
McGuinness unit, C SW NE NWI6-35N-5W, in what had been de
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Above, Madison lime producing area of the Cat Bank field.
First well in tkis field to find oil in the lime was Carter's No. 1
Brindley, at extreme top of map. Six miles to the sonth, at the
bottom of the map, is Union's No. 7 McGuinness, that got
9,000,000 feet of gas in the Cot Bank sand, then went 49 feet
into the Madison lime to find oil of 40 gravity. Significance of
the development is still not fully determined.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ESTABLISHED 1921
December 7, 194«
Number 38
Volume 26
Great Fall«, Mt J
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MANY WELLS V-'.SUMING
IN NORTH STa\\ FIELDS
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Though the Kevin-Sunburst and \nk fields are still heavily
blanketed with packed snow, warn, \\ tther this week brought
a resumption of operations by many \ itors. In more southern
parts of the state, warmer tempera tu and Chinook winds have
swept away virtually all snow, though some operations in these
areas are now having trouble with mud. Outlook, unless there is
a material change in the weather, is that practically all drilling
operations will be resumed by the first of next week. j
McGuinness Completion Main
Item of Interest, Cut Bank
Finding of oil in the Madison lime by Union-McGuinness No. 7
was the chief development of interest in the Cut Bank field during
the week, with action as a whole just beginning to resume following
the storm that shut down nearly the entire field.
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Texaco Gets
Good Well,
North Field
Best completion of the week
in the Kevin-Sunburst field was
scored by the Texas Company
in its Kenny-Kesnn Non-Joint
No. 12, C 8W SW 8E 15-35N-2W.
It got the top of the lime at
1484, dritter! to MM, acidized
with 500 gallons and came up
with an initial of 32 barrels of
oil the first 8 hoars.
Four other wells were driller! in
during the week, getting only shows
of oil that are being acidized. An
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Bowdoin Test
Drilling Plug
Texaco's deep test on Bowdoin
dome in northeastern Montana has
resumed operations following com
pletion of a fishing job and is re
ported drilling plug after cement
ing 9%-inch pipe at 3195 feet with
870 sacks.
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Border Test
Nears Lime
Montana Power Co. this week
made hole past 2885 feet in its wild
cat north of the Reagan Madison
lime producers, west of the^Cut
Bank field and a mile south of the
Alberta-Montana border, on the
Blackfeet Indian reservation. This
well is drilling with rotary tools
and is expected to top the Madison
lime during the coming week.
Poston Test
Shuts Down
H. L. Poston has shut down his
wildcat near Kalispell, the only
well now being drilled in Montana
west of the Rocky mountains, and
will not resume until spring. Seven
Inch pipe has been landed at 1475,
at which depth the well was still
drilling in clay and sand, believed
to be glacial wash.
Bears Den
Well 2884
I The Texas Company this week
made hole past 2884 feet In its No. 1
Sorrell, on the southeast flank of
the Bears Den field. Last reported
top In this well was ribbon sand,
2620.
Some wells are near the comple
tion stage but none appeared to be
of more than average caliber.
Drilling has been resumed on two
outpost wells, one being Texaco's
Black Bear No. I west of any pres
ent production in the field, and
A. B, Cobb's No. 2 Security State
Bank, in Pondera county, in the ex
treme southern part of the field
In the lime area, rotary tools are
moving in for a well that will be
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Hanlon Cat
Creek Well
Tests Ellis
With indications it will be as
good a producer as the original
discovery well on the East dome
of the ('at ('reek field. Rill Han
lon's No. 8 (Jov't, a north offset
to the discovery well, is making
a test of the Ellis sand.
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Union Wildcat
Reaches 2648
Drilling with rotary tools, Union
this week made hole
. its interesting wild
cat on the Twin Buttes structure,
northwest of Billings. It may be a
completion within the next 10 days.
Oil Com
to 2648
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feel in
Kicking Horse
Well Now 200
, Husky Refining Company's No. 1
McDermott on the Kicking Horse -
structure, northeast of the Kevln
; Sunburst field, has resumed drill-*
ing after a shutdown due to snowed
in roads, and is making hole past
200 feet.
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Test At Moore
Drilling, 1775
Wildcat of the Rock Creek Bench
Oil Co. near Moore, In NE NE NE
NW 36-14N-16E, Is drilling with
rotary tools past 1775 feet. The
third Cat Creek sand was topped
in this well at 1323 feet.
Wildcat Near
Pondera, 126
C. W. Stephens-Venetz No. 1,
wildcat on the East Pondera struc
ture, east of the Pondera oil field,
has cemented surface pipe at 86
feet and late Thursday was reported
drilling with spudder past
Objective is a test of the 1
the Madison lime.
126 feet,
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