New oil find in Utah
Thursday May 5, 2005
This Associated Press story reports on the success of a small wildcatter firm, Wolverine Gas & Oil, in finding petroleum in central Utah. Wolverine bought a bunch of old data and leasing rights from Chevron and looked more carefully at the Navajo Sandstone. Two wells began producing crude that arises from source rocks of Carboniferous age. The new Covenant field has aroused wide industry interest in the central Rocky Mountain thrust belt. If you're in Oklahoma City on May 26, you can talk to Wolverine's geologist, Douglas Strickland, yourself at a meeting of the Oklahoma City Geological Society. And have a look at the March AAPG Explorer for deeper detail and perspective. High oil prices lie behind a new surge in American oil exploration.
Comments
I heard about this oil find in Utah on the news. It said it is the largest find in the world but the rock would be expensive to go through. If this is the largest find, spend the money to cut through and let’s stop wasting time and money on other locations that are most in the sea. The ocean is too expensive and the oil refineries are built in the paths of hurricanes and tropical storms. Make no sense to put refineries in those paths for the long run. TOO EXPENSIVE and destroys to much of the coastlines and wildlife.
It doesnt matter what they do, soon we will have to have solar panels and wind mills on our roofs. Cows and chickens in the back yard next to the garden. This is the life that our kids and there kids will be forsed to live in. makes one wonder wht we have kids to begain with,only to put them through the new hell arising.