Pineview oil discovery. [Utah]
A Nuggest Sandstone discovery 12 miles east of Coalville near Pineview, Summit County, has accelerated oil exploration along the N. flank of the Uinta uplift in the SW. reaches of the Green River Basin. Not American Quasar Petroleum, Energetics Inc., and North Central Oil drilled the discovery well, number1 Newton Sheep Co., NE.-SE; Sec. 4, T. 2 N., R. 7 E. It was completed Jan. 12, 1975, flowing 540 bbl of oil, 226 bbl of water, and 270,000 cu ft of gas per day. An 8-ft interval in the Nugget that is perforated at 9,928 to 9,936 ft is producing. The Pineview discovery was drilled on the Chalk Creek anticline, one of several complex folds located near the junction of 3 major structural features: the Wasatch Mt., the Uinta Mt., and the Idaho-Wyoming Thrust Belt. To the west is the Coalville anticline, site of a gas storage project operated by Mountain Fuel Supply Co. The discovery well revealed unsuspected thicknesses of Jurassic Nugget Sandstone. Some 133 ft of Nugget Formation oil pay sand was logged. The well was drilled on a geophysical anomaly indicating structural closure. Below the Nugget, the well cut a fault in Triassic red beds and bottomed in Cretaceous.
- OSTI ID:
- 6623727
- Journal Information:
- Utah Geol. Miner. Surv., Quart. Rev.; (United States), Vol. 9:2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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