The people we bought this place from tried drilling a water well and got natural gas instead; plugged the well.
About 15 miles south of me is a place called Oil Well Hill.
Several wells have been drilled near Willits, California, with mixed results. The oldest, the Mendocino- Midway Oil Syndicate No. 1, was spudded in 1923; the well apparently penetrated fractured sandstone and shale of the Franciscan Complex, and was abandoned at total depth of 2,174 ft in 1925. Reportedly, this well encountered “a showing of gas and “slight traces of oily substance” from 800 ft to the bottom. The Jewel City Exploration Hi No. 1 spudded in “Plio-Pleistocene” strata, reached the top of the Franciscan at about 1,000 ft, and bottomed in Franciscan at total depth of 2,000 ft in 1962; shows of gas were reported from 530 ft to total depth
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North of me, up in Humboldt, is Petrolia; site of first well drilled in Calif.
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The Monterrey Shale extends up to us |
