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Oil in Arizona

07/16/2007
In the article entitled “Ridgeway to delineate CO2 field, eyes Permian EOR” (OGJ, May 28, 2007, p. 41), the statement was made that none of the 26 wells has encountered oil or natural gas, which is incorrect.After the first round of delineation wells, the cores from the wells in Arizona were sent to the Arizona Geological Survey in Tucson. Since High Plains developed and sold the St. Johns Prospect to Ridgeway, I was interested in viewing those cores, which I did, and I noticed an oil-stained dolomite on one of those cores, which both Steve Rauzi (Arizona oil and gas administrator) and I observed. Therefore, oil was encountered in at least one of the wells that has been drille...
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