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Article: TULSA FIRM TO BEGIN TESTING ON EXPLORATORY CARBON DIOXIDE WELL
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- January 13, 1987
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Journal Record Staff Reporter Testing is scheduled
to begin Thursday on an exploratory carbon dioxide well drilled by
Sofia Exploration Co. on its 40,000-acre holding in New Mexico.
Sofia, whose operation headquarters are in Tulsa, has spent the
past four years acquiring the land, located approximately 23 miles
north of Amoco's Bravo Dome, the world's largest known carbon
dioxide reserve.
Sofia is the American subsidiary of Canada's Roxana Resources
Ltd., and is operated by the group of Tulsa partners, among them
Dean Shipman, a Tulsa oilman, Philip Siekman, a member of Fortune
Magazine's editorial staff for 20 years, and W. Richard Thixton, an
oil industry consultant.
Carbon ...