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...same: "Carter brings in new pool . . . she's bubbling out of the hole right now." For the Cottingham mud had tested 50% good crude, 50% mud and drilling water-no salt. By week's end the new well flowed at the rate of 150-175 bbl. a day, was closed down for another gun perforation at 10,640 ft. A second Carter test hole a few miles away was already below 10,000 ft. but had not yet come in as a producer...
Complementing the pipes are collapsible storage tanks and skid-mounted pumping stations which can be readily moved. Average capacity is 5,000 bbl. a day. One mile of the line and its auxiliary equipment weighs 13 tons, less than half the weight of a regular pipeline of equal capacity. A thousand feet of this pipe can easily be handled by one Army truck and crew...
...planes were Lend-Leased. The greatest number went to Russia. Lend-Lease also accounted for 38 out of every 100 tanks the U.S. produced, $9 out of every $100 worth of machine tools, four out of every 100 bbl. of petroleum products...
...Standard Oil of California, called in as technical adviser to the Army, threw cold water. Would not a mere 3,000 bbl. of oil a day by the spring of 1944 be "too little and too late?" Would not a costly refinery only 150 miles from the Pacific coast be a too-easy target to enemy aircraft? The hints were ignored...
...news at Elk Basin last week was Harold Ickes. The Basin's swelling stream of oil has been pinched down to 14,000 bbl. a day for lack of adequate pipelines. The lines were approved by WPB, but frantically opposed by local truckers. Last week Oil Czar Ickes stepped into the fracas, recommended immediate construction of two new pipelines (one to Billings and Laurel refineries in Montana, the other to connect with Stanolind's big line to Salt Lake). When the new lines are pushed through next year, Nettie's homestead will really begin...