This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce in the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 12th day of November, 1922.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Frank E. Mohr, Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 10:30 A. M.
1. FEM: Now Mr. Cayce, you are at the stump, that I believe you designated was the place to drill for oil last Sunday, November 5, 1922. Now will you tell me whether this is or not, the correct stump, then if it is, give me the formations that we would encounter in drilling and the thickness of each formation, if possible, also the thickness of the oil sand, and the location in this sand that the oil will be encountered, and the production per day. Also, what would be the cost of the drilling of this well, and the amount of casing needed?
2. EC: Now you have given this before, but we did not get it correctly, and for this reason, we want to give this over again, so that we can this time get it correctly.
3. Yes, we have this here. We have had this before, you see. Some changes here since last we had it on the surface. Now this, we see, for the place that has been designated as the best place to drill for oil in this district, for we have the advantages of the water for the use in operations, and in this specific location, we will have the less water and caving troubles. This we will encounter in drilling for oil at this place: earth and loose rocks, 10 to 12 feet, shale, sandy, and shale and lime to 93 feet, water, the black lime a 110, lime and shale and lime through this to 240 feet to where we would find a softer formation of soft shale and muck, then shale and shale and shale and shale to 1400 feet. Through this we would find lime and through this would be the oil in the sand, 90 feet of sand. They would drill into the sand, 9 to 10 feet then 20 to 30 to 40 to 50 to 60 feet when cleaning the well for the production of oil. This will be of a high gravity or from 4 to 300 barrels of oil per day. We will find the expense of drilling would vary according to the style or type of rig that would be used in drilling. We would suggest that the standard tools be used for these operations. The cost of actual drilling would be from 8500 to 9,000 Dollars, depending on how the operations were handled. The casing for this will be two strings of casing until production is reached. The first would be at the 110 foot line, the next below the muck that would be encountered just below the 240 foot mark, where the
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showings first would appear of oil and some gas. These are the conditions as we find them at this specific location on the lands of John D. Head, St. Claire Co., Ala., see.
4. (Q) Mr. Cayce, at what point in the oil sand would the oil come in? (A) Just as we have given, when first drilled in at 9 to 10 feet would be first encountered, the pay oil, as the well is developed from time to time as tubing is set. We would clean, as we have given, 10 to 20, to 30 to 40 to 50 to 60 feet in the sand as development is needed for the cleaning of the oil from this specific location, see.
5. (Q) Mr. Cayce, we do not quite understand you, do you mean that the oil is found at 9 feet in the sand or 10 feet? Do we then go on down and drill 60 feet in sand? (A) As the well is cleaned for the development of the oil, it's drilled down 10 feet each time it is cleaned until 60 feet is reached, when you will have cleaned location of all the oil in this specific location, see.
6. (Q) How long, Mr. Cayce, would this production hold up? (A) Beginning from the 400 barrel production reducing until there is little oil obtained, lasting in each time it is drilled from three, that is, the beginning, you see, to six months when drill to each new ten feet, the production would be brought back again ranging from the 400 to the 300 barrel production, see, lasting then in all nearly three years.
7. (Q) Then at the end of three years, Mr. Cayce, would you go on and drill the other thirty feet? (A) You will have drilled the whole 60 feet in the sand by the end of the three years, see, for it last from three to six months beginning with the six months ending with the three, you see.
8. (Q) Mr. Cayce, when do you think the drilling will begin on this land and who will finance it? (A) This we have it different from this in the ground. We have people dealing with. We have this here.
9. (Q) Can you give the parties or do you not care to do this? (A) We will give them here. We will find there are at present several groups of people interested in financing the proposition of development of oil in this district, other that are using the chances of development of oil to obtain possession of the lands in question. They are being considered by Bethea and Folley and Barrett, as to when these will begin - we haven't these here.
10. (Q) Mr. Cayce, have you any other further instructions to give on this oil proposition. (A) Drill here as we have given, we will find the oil. It's worth while. There is much in this district there for
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other locations, you see, on these domes encountered within this lime upheaval, there would be oil found. There will be many spotted locations, see. Those run along the cross ridges in this district and in the runs running North and South by those East and West for this lies in the mono-cline, the variety for traps of the accumulation of oil ranging in depth, you see, from the 1600 to the 1800 foot level depending the location and overlap will be encountered at the drilling. There will be more gas in the Southern and Western portions of the district, than that lying North by East from this specific location. There are others, that is locations, that will not be as long a production or a producing well as this would be as drilled here, see.
11. (Q) Mr. Cayce, I want you to answer just one question yet? How far South by West of this particular location are the chances of oil production? (A) Nearly two miles South and West or more South than West.
12. (Q) About how many degrees west of South? (A) Ten degrees and three minutes to the farthest end there comes along the ridge, you see.
13. (Q) How far will this present location be from railroad? (A) Depends on which district the wells are drilled, as here, you see, it would be something more than 580 feet, you see.
14. (Q) Mr. Cayce, I do want to ask you one more question. How far is the spring South by West from this present location? (A) From this spring the present location was made 247 feet and 2 inches, see. There we would obtain the water for operations. We are through.