Eastern U.S.

1 According to IHS Inc., Nashville, Ill.-based Oelze Equipment Co. LLC has staked a deep wildcat east of the town of Okawville, Ill. The #1 Bram Vu Farms is in Section 13-1s-4w, northwestern Washington County. The wildcat will be a 5,500-ft. test to Cambro-Ordovician Knox. The location is about 1.5 miles northeast of the closest previous producers in Okawville Field and 2.5 miles southeast of Okawville North Consolidated Field. Okawville Field produced 65,200 bbl. of oil from five wells tapping Silurian at about 2,300 ft. before being abandoned in 1997. The field was discovered in 1963.

2 In Allen Springs Quadrangle in Allen County, Ky., Adventure Energy Inc. acquired two producing wells. According to the company, it will hold an 80% working interest and a 68% net revenue interest in each well. The #1 Reynolds was completed at a total depth of 464 ft. with production from Corniferous and is producing 2 bbl. of oil per day. Adventure, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., intends to maintain production, and plans to increase recovery through acid- and fracture-stimulation.

The #2 Reynolds is a 425-ft. Corniferous producer and Adventure will put the well back online with an expected production rate of 2 to 3 bbl. of oil daily. Adventure has also acquired the 36-acre leasehold where the wells are located. With proper spacing, the company believes it can drill two new offset wells.

3 Laurel, Miss.-based Venture Oil & Gas Co. has staked a wildcat in the Alabama’s Escambia County, near Atmore. The #1 Mason 36-14 is in Section 36-3n-6e and is expected to be drilled to 15,400 ft. Venture has spudded a test well to the northeast in Section 34-3n-5e and is drilling to a total depth of 15,700 ft. Production in the area comes from Frisco City in Huxford West Field, which was opened in 1994. Cumulative recovery from Frisco City totaled 508,172 bbl. of oil, 779 million cu. ft. of gas and 171,103 bbl. of water through 2007.

4 Pruet Production Co. of Jackson, Miss., is drilling a wildcat in the northern portion of Alabama’s Escambia County, about 13 miles south of Frisco City. The #1 Morris 1-15 is expected to reach a total depth of 15,000 ft. in Norphlet. The drillsite is in Section 1-3n-6e. Regional Smackover production is in one-well Robinson Creek North Field, about 0.5 mile to the southeast. Pruet’s #1 Atic 8-5, in Section 8-3n-7e, was completed in 2001 flowing 418 bbl. of 54-degree crude and 135,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas per day through natural perforations at 14,166-78 ft. Online through September 2008, the 14,620-ft. well yielded 396,731 bbl. of oil, 586.44 million cu. ft. of gas and 580,328 bbl. of water. West-southwest of the Pruet drillsite, Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc. recently abandoned a directional test in the area. The #1 Blackstone-Indigo 10-10 was drilled in the same section and was originally permitted to reach a total depth of 15,000 ft.

5 Near Castleberry, Ala., a Smackover wildcat has been staked by Midroc Operating Co. in the southern portion of Conecuh County. Midroc, based in Dallas, plans to drill #35-8 McMillan to a total depth of 12,500 ft. in Section 35-4n-10e. The lone producer in Juniper Creek Field is 4 miles west in Section 31. The 12,790-ft. #1 D.W. McMillan 31-15 was completed in 2001. It flowed 360 bbl. of oil per day from undisclosed perforations in Smackover. In 2005, a 12,921-ft. sidetrack was tested for 396 bbl. of crude daily through perforations at 12,748-58 ft. Cumulative recovery from the discovery totaled 43,302 bbl. of oil, 26.8 million cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 111,199 bbl. of water until early 2006.

6 A southern extension of Little Cedar Creek Field in the southern portion of Alabama’s Conecuh County was completed by Jackson, Miss.-based Columbia Petroleum LLC. The #2 Nick Ross 24-11, a Smackover wildcat, was tested flowing 767 bbl. of 49-degree crude and 450,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas per day through perforations at 11,504-35 ft. On a 13/64-in. choke, flowing tubing pressure was 1,000 psi. Located in Section 24-4n-12e, the new producer was drilled to a total depth of 11,765 ft. It offsets Midroc Operating Co.’s #10 Kendall Lands 24 to the east in the same section. The Midroc producer was recently completed flowing 91 bbl. of 45-degree crude, 130,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 8 bbl. of water per day through perforations at 11,414-34 ft. in Smackover.

7 Production casing was run in a sidetrack at a Midroc Operating well in Little Cedar Creek in Conecuh County, Ala. According to the Southeastern Oil Review, Midroc’s #6-16 Horton, in Section 6-1n-13e, was sidetracked to 11,400 ft. to Smackover. Perforations were at 11,072-80 ft. and oil and gas flowed at a rate of 12 bbl. and 20,000 cu. ft. per day through a 30/64-in. choke. Flowing tubing pressure was 400 psi. Originally, the well was drilled by Midroc as the #6-15 Horton and the total depth was 11,450 ft.

8 Near Crestview, Fla., in Okaloosa County, Tulsa-based Zenergy Inc. has scheduled a directional wildcat. The company plans to drill #32-3 Kaucher to a total depth of 15,594 ft. in Smackover. The wildcat is in Section 32-3n-24w and is expected to bottom about 900 ft. to the northeast beneath the same section. Smackover production is more than 20 miles northwest of the newly proposed wildcat. In 1987, the #34-2 State of Florida was completed at a rate of 640 bbl. of 43.4-degree crude, 217,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 23 bbl. of water per day through perforations at 14,051-61 ft.

9 According to IHS Inc., U.S. Energy Development of Getzville, N.Y., completed a gas producer from Medina in Lake Shore Field. Located in Section E, Cherry Creek Quad, Leon Township, Chautauqua County, N.Y., #1 Hackney produced 1.5 million cu. ft. of gas daily from perforations in Medina at 3,355-59 ft., 3,371-76 ft. and 3,392-94 ft. Drilled to a total depth of 3,580 ft., reported log tops at the site were Devonian, 250 ft.; Marcellus, 2,189 ft.; , Onondaga, 2,230 ft.; Akron, 2,413 ft.; Lockport, 2,943 ft.; Rochester, 3,306 ft.; Irondequoit, 3,292 ft.; Grinsby, 3,315 ft.; Whirlpool, 3,443 ft., and Queenston, 3,457 ft.

10 Tulsa-based Williams Cos. and State College, Pa.-based Rex Energy Corp. have signed a participation and exploration agreement to develop Marcellus shale gas wells in Pennsylvania. A subsidiary of Williams will acquire from Rex a 50% interest in approximately 44,000 net acres in Westmoreland, Clearfield and Centre counties for $33 million.

Meanwhile, Rex has also closed its acquisition of the 50% interest previously owned by its joint-venture partner in areas of Pennsylvania’s Butler County for $4.2 million. The deal gives Rex a 100% interest in these areas and increases its position by 6,500 net acres to approximately 22,700 gross (21,250 net) acres in this project area.

The agreement with Rex is Williams’ second recent transaction in the Marcellus shale. The company also has a midstream joint venture with Atlas Pipeline Partners that owns 1,800 miles of intrastate natural gas gathering lines servicing about 6,900 Appalachian Basin wells.

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