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 Shell Brings In Best Well In Richey Oil Territory |
Reprinted from McCone County
CASPER, July 31 –Shell Oil Co. has brought in by far the best well thus far in the Richey area of Montana.
The company announced here today its No. 42-24 Beery, in McCone county, had an initial flow2 potential of 5,378 barrels of 38 gravity oil a day based on test through open line. Production is from the interval 7,150-75 feet.
Production has been obtained from two zones. In a test of the interval 7,008-16 feet and 7,022-60 feet, the rate of flow was 406 barrels of oil per day. Two days later the test of the lower zone was made with the resultant higher production.
The No. 42-24 Beery is a south-west one location step out from the NP1 which had an initial flow of 1,536 barrels a day. The lower producing zone is believed to be correlative with that of the NP1. It is on the wheat farm of Newel Beery.
Shell now is drilling three additional wells in the Richey field.
A depth of about 6,200 feet has been reached at the Zuroff well 44-13e, with depths of about 6,000 and 4,000 feet recorded at Shell’s NP 11-3c and NP 44-23c near Richey.
Drillers are going below 6,000 feet at Etzel 22-29, a Shell wildcat in the Long Grass area, about five miles south of Poplar.