Yes, we have this here. We have had this before, you see.
Some changes here since last we had it on the surface. Now
this, we see, for the place that has been designated as the
best place to drill for oil in this district, for we have the
advantages of the water for the use in operations, and in
this specific location, we will have the less water and
caving troubles. This we will encounter in drilling for oil
at this place: earth and loose rocks, 10 to 12 feet, shale,
sandy, and shale and lime to 93 feet, water, the black lime a
110, lime and shale and lime through this to 240 feet to
where we would find a softer formation of soft shale and
muck, then shale and shale and shale and shale to 1400 feet.
Through this we would find lime and through this would be the
oil in the sand, 90 feet of sand. They would drill into the
sand, 9 to 10 feet then 20 to 30 to 40 to 50 to 60 feet when
cleaning the well for the production of oil. This will be of
a high gravity or from 4 to 300 barrels of oil per day. We
will find the expense of drilling would vary according to the
style or type of rig that would be used in drilling. We
would suggest that the standard tools be used for these
operations. The cost of actual drilling would be from 8500
to 9,000 Dollars, depending on how the operations were
handled. The casing for this will be two strings of casing
until production is reached. The first would be at the 110
foot line, the next below the muck that would be encountered
just below the 240 foot mark, where the showings first would
appear of oil and some gas. These are the conditions as we
find them at this specific location on the lands of John D.
Head, St. Claire Co., Ala., see.
(Q) Mr. Cayce, at what point in the oil sand would the oil
come in?
(A) Just as we have given, when first drilled in at 9 to 10
feet would be first encountered, the pay oil, as the well is
developed from time to time as tubing is set. We would
clean, as we have given, 10 to 20, to 30 to 40 to 50 to 60
feet in the sand as development is needed for the cleaning of
the oil from this specific location, see.
(Q) Mr. Cayce, we do not quite understand you, do you mean
that the oil is found at 9 feet in the sand or 10 feet? Do
we then go on down and drill 60 feet in sand?
(A) As the well is cleaned for the development of the oil,
it's drilled down 10 feet each time it is cleaned until 60
feet is reached, when you will have cleaned location of all
the oil in this specific location, see.
(Q) How long, Mr. Cayce, would this production hold up?
(A) Beginning from the 400 barrel production reducing until
there is little oil obtained, lasting in each time it is
drilled from three, that is, the beginning, you see, to six
months when drill to each new ten feet, the production would
be brought back again ranging from the 400 to the 300 barrel
production, see, lasting then in all nearly three years.
(Q) Then at the end of three years, Mr. Cayce, would you go
on and drill the other thirty feet?
(A) You will have drilled the whole 60 feet in the sand by
the end of the three years, see, for it last from three to
six months beginning with the six months ending with the
three, you see.
(Q) Mr. Cayce, when do you think the drilling will begin on
this land and who will finance it?
(A) This we have it different from this in the ground. We
have people dealing with. We have this here.
(Q) Can you give the parties or do you not care to do this?
(A) We will give them here. We will find there are at
present several groups of people interested in financing the
proposition of development of oil in this district, other
that are using the chances of development of oil to obtain
possession of the lands in question. They are being
considered by Bethea and Folley and Barrett, as to when these
will begin, - we haven't these here.
(Q) Mr. Cayce, have you any other further instructions to
give on this oil proposition.
(A) Drill here as we have given, we will find the oil. It's
worth while. There is much in this district there for other
locations, you see, on these domes encountered within this
lime upheaval, there would be oil found. There will be many
spotted locations, see. Those run along the cross ridges in
this district and in the runs running North and South by
those East and West for this lies in the mono-cline, the
variety for traps of the accumulation of oil ranging in
depth, you see, from the 1600 to the 1800 foot level
depending the location and overlap will be encountered at the
drilling. There will be more gas in the Southern and Western
portions of the district, than that lying North by East from
this specific location. There are others, that is locations,
that will not be as long a production or a producing well as
this would be as drilled here, see.
(Q) Mr. Cayce, I want you to answer just one question yet?
How far South by West of this particular location are the
chances of oil production?
(A) Nearly two miles South and West or more South than West.
(Q) About how many degrees west of South?
(A) Ten degrees and three minutes to the farthest end there
comes along the ridge, you see.
(Q) How far will this present location be from railroad?
(A) Depends on which district the wells are drilled, as
here, you see, it would be something more than 580 feet, you
see.
(Q) Mr. Cayce, I do want to ask you one more question. How
far is the spring South by West from this present location?
(A) From this spring the present location was made 247 feet
and 2 inches, see. There we would obtain the water for
operations. We are through.
BACKGROUND
Subject of 3940-3: Lands of John D. Head, St. Claire Co.,
Ala.
See
3940-1 and
3940-2.
REPORTS
11/12/22 See
3940-4.
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