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Home My WebLink About100-087Explanation Page Permit Number 100-087 These well numbers (typically beginning with 100) precede the beginning of the Commission. No permits were issued and no formal folder of record (information) created. Information known to the Commission through other agencies, journals, reports, news or additional historical means has been collected and entered into a database of Well History information. If specific information exists, these pages may be filed in this folder. Occasionally, the information has been obtained from a report that may deal with a general area and many wells. If or when possible, we may be able to 'point' the person interested in this specific well to one or more of these information sources. However, at best, this will be incomplete. and independent research should be conducted to locate, if available, further information about a particular well site. APPENDIX B Katalla Oil Field Claim 1 Dated Sequence of Oil Well Drilling as Compiled from Martin 1921 and Miller 1975. Note: Well # column gives Martin 1921 well # then Miller 1975:Table 4 well # with a slash separating the numbers. Other wells outside Claim 1 within the greater Katalla Oil field are in both sources. There are also different well numberings in other reports. Well # Drilled Depth Comments I A/1 1901 270ft Alaska Steam Coal and Petroleum Syndicate (ASC&PS). Abandoned due to tool loss to after show of oil; no oil produced. Discovery well. 1/2 1902 366 (ASC&PS) Flow of oil obtained. 1903 550 Alaska Petroleum and Coal Company Well #1. Pumped in 1904 for fuel to use at other wells. First production well in AK. Considerable production in following years; Bowed until capped. Well log Martin 1921:23. Produced 1902-33. 2/3 1903 -1000 Alaska Petroleum and Coal Company Well #2 Oil obtained at 700B. Pumped from 1912 until abandoned in 1919. Miller reports intermittent production 1912-33. 317 1904 900 (ASC&PS). Capped during 1905-06. Pumped for fuel 1907-08. Production started in 1912. B/8 1904 7 (ASC&PS). No oil so far as known. Probably abandoned at shallow depth. C/9 1904 7 (ASC&PS). Derrick erected 1903. Probably drilled 1904. No oil obtained. 4/23 1912 690 Amalgamated Development Company (ADC). Oil from 500 to 600ft. Pumping started 1912. 5/24 1912 -1000 (ADC) A little oil at 650ft; main Bow 800.One of largest producers on Claim 1. 6/25 1912 100/200 Not on Claim I. (ADC). Abandoned due to rotary bit loss. No oil obtained. 7/26 1912 645 (ADC). Oil showings below 30011; main Bow 450fL 8/27 1913 1100 (ADC). Small quantity oil 700-800B. Pumped in Jan. 1917 but not since. 9/28 1917 1810 St. Elias Oil Company (SEOC). Oil obtained at 650-1000ft but not enough to pump. 10/29 1917 1613 Not Claim I; on Redwood Claim # 12 (SEOC). Location may be shown as 109 on some maps. Small quantities of oil found. Abandoned because of caving. 11/30 1919 1130 (SEOC). Drilled entirely in shale. Oil at 490ft & 590-1000ft. Produces 3 barrels daily. 12131 1918 903 (SEOC). Drilled entirely in shale. Slight oil 35011; increase 430ft; big increase at 590ft Produces 8 barrels daily. 13/32 1918-19 900 (SEOC). Drilled entirely in shale. Oil at 635ft; strong Bow 770fL Produces 20 barrels daily. 14/33 1919 1410 (SEOC). Drilling discontinued during winter. 1920 2265 Drilled entirely in shale. Showing of oil found, but no "pay." 151 1920 Probably not drilled on Claim 1. "Derrick erected in 1920 and drilling was probably started in the fall (Martin 1921:24)" This well may never have been drilled. 16/34 1920 740 Chilkat Oil Company. Oil obtained at 365, 510 with greatest yield at 740ft. Some oil produced. Listed as being in Katalla field in Miller 1975auble. MILLER:1975 IS THE MAIN REFERENCE SOURCE BELOW THIS LINE; MARTIN:1921 ABOVE. 17/35 1920 903 Chilkat Oil Co. #17 18/36 1921 1000 Chilkat Oil Co. # 18 19/37 1921 1465 Chilkat Oil Co.#19 - location shown in Roderick 1997:36 drawing. 20/38 1922 1202+ Chilkat Oil Co.#20 (Cordova Daily Times Apr. 3, 22). 21/39 1922 1751 Chilkat Oil Co. #21 - Well 39 in Miller 1975 Table 4- listed as being produced at 1350ft on Claim 1 per Cordova Daily Times Nov. 4, 22. 22140 1923 1296 Chilkat Oil Co. #22 - Well 40 in Miller 1975 Table 4 where depth is given as 128011 listed as being produced so it must be on Claim 1) (The Alaska Weekly Apr. 18,24) (Cordova Daily Times Mar. 23, 23). 23/41 1925 1160 Chilkat Oil Co. #23 24/42 1925-6 2350 Chilkat Oil Co. #24 25/43 1931-2 2005 Not on Claim 1; barely off claim toward Well 10/29. Chilkat Oil Co. #25 PRODUCTION AND DRILLING ENDED WHEN REFINERY (COR-004) BURINED ON DEC. 25, 1933.