Year: 1962
Type: dissertation
Abstract: 1. :Pioneer Oil al)d Gas No. 1 in Williams County.Abandoned •in 1920 at 2,107(?) feet.2. Des Lacs Western Oil Company in Ward County.Abandoned ,in 19 23 at 3,980 feet.3. Davis Well in Adams County.Abandoned in 1923 at 2,800(?) feet.!1.. J.\.C. T0vmley Interests in Kidder County.Abandoned in 1926 at 2,fi.QO(?) feet. 5. Glenfield Oil Cornpany in Fos•ter County.A.bandon.N1 in 1928 at 3,24.0.:feet.6. Noreast Oil Company in Divide County.Abandoned in 1927(?) at l,l~52 feet.• 7. Herman Hanson Oil Synd.icate in McLean Coun.ty.Abandoned ].;n 19 29 at 1, •s40 f ';;et.8. Prairie Oil and Gas in Kidder County.Abandoned in 1930 at 3,884 •feet.9. A.R. Jones Oil and Operating Company in Renville County.Abandoned in 1931 at j,872 feet.10.Velva Petroleum Company in Ward County.Abandoned in 1931 at 520 • feet.11.D.J. Carter in Logan County, Abandoned in 1933(?) at 2,284 feet.12. Big Viking Oil Company in Will:i.amsCounty.•Abandoned in 1935 at 4,64-2 feet.13.California Oil Company in Williams County.Abandoned in 1938 at 10,281 fee•t.ll~.Carter Oil Company in Morton County.Abandoned in 194-0 at /J,,930 feet.15.Carter Oil Company in Oliver County.Abandoned in 1942 at 8,850 feet.16. • Northern Ordinance in Emmons County.Abandoned in 1943 at 5,359 feet.17. H. W. Snowden •in Rfohland County.Abandoned in 19l1-8 at 695 feet.18.Price Drilling Company in Ward County.Abandoned in 19l}9 at 8,4-35 feet.19.Continental and Pure Oil Companies in Burleigh County.Abandoned in 1949 at 6,957 feet.20.Union Oil Company in Ramsey County.Abandoned in 194.9 at 3,223 feet.21.Kelly-Plymouth in Mercer County.Abandoned in 1950 at 12,526 fe~t.22. Samedan Oil Corporation in McLean County.Abandoned in 1950 at 9 > 032 fe.e t. 23.Roeser-Pendleton in Enm1ons County.Abandoned in 1950 at 5,556 feet.2l:.. Magnolia Petroleum Company in Kidder County.Abandoned in 1950 at 5,609 feet.25.Arnerada Petroleum Corporation in 'Williams County.Completed :ln 1951 at 11,955 feet.aOil well depths, dates, and locations compiled by the University of North Dakota Geology Department, Grand Forks.Data is printed on loo.se sheets with data from some fifty wells on each sheet.~v.i-CHAPTERI EARLJ E~LORATION When Amerada Petroleum Corporation brought iri North Dakota's first successful oil well on April 4, 1951=_, it climaxed many years, of explo-'--•--•- ----------------•-•~-•-----------------------------~---~,....ration, drilling, and hoping.For several decades the people of the state had waited with anticipation for some promise of diversification of the economy.While throughout the United States agriculture had ceased to be the dominant industry and was greatly overshadowed-by manufacturing, in North Dakota agriculture remained the cornerstone of.theeconomy.Farm income in 1946 made up 46.3 per cent of the total income for North Dakota. 1 In this same year, agricultural income for the United States was only 9.4, per cent of the total, the highest that it had been in recent years. 2 North Dakota remained the most agricultural and least industrialized state in the nation; and there seemed little evidence of a trend toward less dependence on agriculture.Ever since the first settlers had come to North Dakota, the people had depended solely on the soil for their existence.This relation was either direct or indirect, and it affected both town resident and farmer.Everyone was part of the pattern, understood it, and accepted it.1 nuring the height of the depression this dropped to only 4.1 per cent.Glen W. Fisher, I1n'corne 'in' North' '.l)ako 'ta, 1929-1956, North Dakota Institute for R~gional Studies, Social Science .Moriogl1Jlii No. 1 (Fargo: North Dakota Agricultural College, 1958), p. 10.Cited herein as Fisher, N'orth Dakota Inc'orne'.---
Author: Schaff, Dominic
Language: English
Subfield: Geology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2963903753