Table 13.—Oil and gas well drilling in 1967, by counties 
 
County 
Oil 
Gas Dry 
Total 
Footage 
Exploratory completions: 
Carbon                                                   
Duchesne                                         
Emery                                                    
Garfield                                                   
Grand                                                    
Kane                                                     
San Juan                                         
Sanpete                                                   
Sevier                                                    
Summit                                                   
Uintah                                           
Utah                                                     
 
Total                                          
 
Development completions: 
Box Elder  
Duchesne                                         
Garfield                                          
Grand                                            
San Juan  
Summit                                          
Uintah                                           
 
Total                                          
 
Total all drilling                                  
2 
 
 
 
3 
 
 
2 
3 
 
 
5 
 
 
7 
 
 
2 
 
 
7 
 
 
3 
 
 
11 
 
 
1 
 
 
1 
 
 
2 
 
 
5 
 
 
1 
3 
 
 
7 
 
 
7 
 
 
2 
 
 
7 
 
 
3 
 
 
14 
 
 
1 
 
 
1 
 
 
2 
 
 
7 
 
 
1 
23,979 
 
 
52,171 
 
 
29,155 
 
 
6,751 
 
 
18,123 
 
 
12,513 
 
 
79,961 
 
 
8,100 
 
 
6,485 
 
 
28,881 
 
 
45,346 
 
 
8,207 
 
7 
48 
55 
319,672 
 
1 
2 
2 
1 
18 
3 
24 
  2  1 1 5  15 
  
 7 3 
1 
4 
3 
7 
33 
3 
34 
260 
28,428 
20,800 
4,894 
124,600 
47,583 
171,399 
 
51 
8 26 
85 
397,964 
 
58 
8 74 
140 
717,636 
 Sources: Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Conservation,
Yearly Well Completion Report, 1967, 25 pp.; Petroleum Information Corp.,
1967 Resume, Oil and Gas Operations in the Rocky Mountain Region. 
792 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
production amounting to $8,663,962; of this, $4,712,675 was from production
on Indian lands, $3,488,668 from public domain and $462,619 from State lands.
As with natural gas, 37.5 percent of the royalties received from production
on public domain was to be returned to the State. 
 Seven oil- and gas-lease sales held during the year brought bonuses totaling
$511,660. Four of these were State-land sales involving 59,191 acres, for
which the State received bonuses of $166,001; two were sales by the Uintah-Ouray
Indian agency, which covered 91,528 acres and brought bonus payments of $344,586;
the other was a sale of leases on 1,118 acres of public domain, for which
a bonus of $1,073 was paid. 
 Drilling declined slightly below the 1966 total of 142 wells; although exploratory
drilling was down 14 wells, development drilling was up 12. Wildcat activity
accounted for 39 percent of the drilling— most of it in the Paradox
and Uinta basins. The seven discovery wells, all oil, gave a success ratio
of 7.9 percent, much lower than that for 1966. Uintah County was ranked first
in development drilling because of activity in the Wonsits-Wonsits Valley
and Coyote Basin fields. 
 Of the seven discovery wells, the most significant, on the basis of initial
production, was Chevron Oil Co., Western Division, Boren-Fee (11—11)
No. 1, sec. 11, TiS, R2W, Uintah Meridian, Duchesne County. The well was
completed flowing 1,080 barrels of 30° API oil from the Green River Formation
(Tertiary) at a depth of 9,650 to 11,128 feet. 
 In San Juan County the Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. Rabbit Ears-Navajo No.
1, sec. 19, T43S, R22E (SLM), was completed as a new field discovery, flowing
322 barrels of oil and 4.3 million cubic feet of gas per day from the Ismay
zone of the Paradox Formation (Pennsylvanian). The H. P. McLish and L. R.
Miracle Gose-Government No. 1, sec. 19, T6S, R21E (SLM), Uintah County, was
completed, pumping 400 barrels of oil per day from the Green River-Wasatch
formations (Tertiary). 
 Crude-oil runs to stills in the State's five refineries totaled 36.1 million
barrels; 26.4 million came from out of State and 
9.7 million was from local production. Colorado again supplied most of the
outof-State oil, 18.6 million barrels; Wyoming furnished 7.6 million barrels.
Shipments out of State were chiefly to California