1 A Strawn wildcat has been completed in the Fort Worth metropolitan area flowing 944,000 cu. ft. of gas per day. Cortez Operating Co., Dallas, drilled the #W-1 Harbourview to 3,800 ft. in the suburb of Eagle Mountain in the Sarah E. Merrell Survey, A-1009, Tarrant County, Texas. The well was drilled to 3,800 ft., plugged back to 3,775 ft. and tested through a 14/64-in. choke from 3,652-98 ft. with 675 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Most of the recent activity in the area has been from companies working the Barnett Shale play. 2 Prime Natural Resources Inc., Kilgore, Texas, drilled a 750,000-cu.-ft-per-day wildcat about 6.5 miles northeast of Gilmer, Texas, in Upshur County. The #1 TMTC well tested Cotton Valley through perforations between 11,094 ft. and 11,306 ft. on a 4/64-in. choke with 4,100 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well, in TC RR Co. Survey, A-587, was drilled to a total depth of 11,875 ft. The nearest Cotton Valley production is about a mile west where a well in the same survey produced 114.3 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,017 bbl. of condensate and 7,048 bbl. of water between 1980 and 1984. It was later recompleted in a shallower Cotton Valley zone for another 25.8 million cu. ft. of gas and 152 bbl. of condensate during the next year and a half, according to IHS Energy. 3 Westport Oil & Gas Co. LP, Dallas, completed the #1 Bloxsom discovery about two miles southeast of Raywood, Texas, in Liberty County for 3.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 562 bbl. of condensate a day. The well produced through four Cook Mountain perforated sections between 12,193 ft. and 12,251 ft. through a 10-64-in. choke with 7,951 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well was drilled to 12,430 ft. in Peter Mason Survey, A-69. A mile and a half west-southwest, a Raywood Field well-the #1 Trahan-produced 900.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 12,698 bbl. of condensate and 4,657 bbl. of water from Cook Mountain during its first nine months online. 4 Republic Resources LLC, San Antonio, completed the #1 Hawkins Ranch as a discovery in the George S. Pentecost Survey, A-71, Matagorda County, Texas. Gas flowed at the rate of 1.15 million cu. ft. per day. The 6,400-ft. well was tested on a 9/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 1,700 psi from 5,902-04 ft. 5 U.S. Enercorp LLC drilled to 15,540 ft. at its #1 Stockton Gas Unit to find 6.1 million cu. ft. of gas and 144 bbl. of water daily from a fracture-treated section of the Wilcox between 14,060-72 ft. The Midland company tested the Goliad County, Texas, well through a 16/64-in. choke and got 5,992 psi of flowing casing pressure. The bottomhole location was about a quarter-mile south of the surface location, both in Victor Blanco Survey, A-7. The well tested at 427,000 cu. ft. per day before stimulation. 6 A directional discovery has been made by Dan A. Hughes Co., Beeville, Texas, at the #1 Grissom, in the Gregorio Lopez Survey, A-215, Bee County, Texas, about four miles northwest of Tulsita. The well flowed 2.5 million cu. ft. of gas, 215 bbl. of condensate and 30 bbl. of water a day from Wilcox perforations between 9,606 ft. and 9,764 ft. after the operator came back up the hole from total depth of 11,060 ft. (10,954 ft. true vertical depth). The nearest production is about a half-mile north-northwest in Caesar South Field. 7 Houston independent Scana Petroleum Resources Inc. completed a deeper pool discovery in T.C.B. Field in Jim Wells County, Texas, flowing at 261 bbl. of oil and 277,000 cu. ft. of gas a day. The company tested the #2 King Ranch in F. Briones #60 Survey, A-55, on an 11/64-in. choke with 940 psi of flowing tubing pressure from Vicksburg perforations between 7,382 ft., and 7,408 ft. T.C.B. Field has produced 63.2 billion cu. ft. of gas, 231,046 bbl. of condensate and 845,549 bbl. of water, all from Frio, since coming online in 1964, says IHS Energy. 8 San Antonio-based Republic Resources LLC completed the Ordner Gas Unit #1 discovery in the Cuadrilla Irrigation Co. Survey, A-465, Nueces County, Texas, at a total depth of 8,660 ft. Gas flowed at a rate of 750,000 cu. ft. per day with 10 barrels of condensate. The well was tested on a 9/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 1,730 psi from 8,337-40 ft. 9 El Paso Production GOM Inc., Houston, completed a gas discovery at its #a-1 OCS-G-17754 well in the western corner of West Cameron Block 46 in the Gulf of Mexico. Test details weren't released, but the gas flowed from Anahuac perforations between 16,996 ft. and 17,232 ft. in the 18,700-ft. well. The nearest production is on Block 47 immediately west. 10 Irving, Texas-based independent Pioneer Natural Resources Co. encountered 350 ft. of pay in a single sand in its Harrier prospect area on East Breaks Block 759. Pioneer plans to develop the #1 OCS-G-20745 discovery on Block 758 as a single-well field tied back to its Falcon Nest platform about 15 miles northwest. Also as part of the Falcon area development, Pioneer drilled a wildcat, the #1 OCS-G-23244 in East Breaks 712, on a two-block unit near its Falcon Field. That well was abandoned at 8,200 ft. The company plans more tests in the area, according to IHS Energy. 11 BHP Billiton Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, has started production at a rate of 7,500 bbl. of oil per day from its Boris development in Green Canyon 282. The #1 OCS-G-16272 well is in 2,386 ft. of water, and the company expects to raise production to 10,000 bbl. of oil and 15 million cu. ft. of gas per day. In the northern portion of the same block, the company drilled the #2 OCS-G-16272 last fall to 15,910 ft. (14,122 ft. true vertical depth). That well should come online later this year at a rate of 18,000 bbl. of oil and 27 million cu. ft. of gas per day. BHP is developing the field through a three-slot subsea manifold tied back to ChevronTexaco's Typhoon platform on Green Canyon 236 Field about five miles northwest. ChevronTexaco and Noble Energy Inc. each have a 25% interest in Boris. 12 Marathon Oil Co., Houston, has suspended operations at its Komodo prospect on Green Canyon Block 569 in 4,148 ft., of water. The company still plans another test on the block and two more tests across the block's eastern border in Atwater Valley 569. BP Exploration & Oil Inc. and BHP Petroleum (GOM) Inc. originally acquired the Atwater Valley tract in the March 1997 Minerals Management Service lease sale for $762,885. Some four miles southwest of the Atwater Valley tract, BHP drilled a wildcat on its Neptune prospect in Atwater Valley 573. BP's Atlantis discovery, also on the Atwater Foldbelt, lies some 10 miles south-southwest of Komodo. 13 Metairie, La.'s Century Exploration Co. tested a wildcat discovery in Louisiana state waters in the Gulf of Mexico for 10.3 million cu. ft. of gas and 458 bbl. of condensate a day. The Breton Sound 33 well, the #1 State Lease 17385, went to 13,005 ft. and tested pay at around 12,300 ft. through a 14/64-in. choke with 8,171 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The nearest previous production from the block is more than 2.5 miles east-southeast, where a 1971 well recovered a cumulative 243.3 million cu. ft. of gas, 5,607 bbl. of condensate and 7,296 bbl. of water from Upper Miocene at 13,526-40 ft. through 1977, says IHS Energy. 14 El Paso Production Co., Houston, tapped the James Lime in Bienville Parish, La., for a discovery with an initial potential of 2.9 million cu. ft. a day. The company drilled its #1 Foster 35 to 12,805 ft. (12,472 true vertical depth) and tested perforations between 7,430 ft. and 7,570 ft. on a 35/64-in. choke with flowing casing pressure of 1,675 psi. The well is in Section 35-15n-8w. The nearest production is from shallower Cretaceous and Hosston. 15 Brammer Engineering Co., Shreveport, completed a Jones County, Miss., development well in Camp Creek Field producing 744 bbl. of oil and 984,000 cu. ft. of gas with four bbl. of water a day from Cotton Valley between 16,163-81 ft. The #1 Walker 1-8, in Section 1-7n-11w, was gauged on a 10/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 2,609 psi. The nearest field well is a half-mile east. That well, completed in 1990, has recovered 225,309 bbl. of oil and 27.3 million cu. ft. of casinghead gas with 23,573 bbl. of water. 16 Rebel Drilling Co. LP discovered 1.1 million cu. ft. of gas and 107 bbl. of condensate at day at its #1 Unit 31-1 discovery in Section 31-7n-62 in the southeastern corner of Wayne County, Miss. The Houston company drilled to 16,960 ft., plugged back to 16,866 ft. and tested pay through Smackover perforations from 16,698 ft. to 16,863 ft. with flowing tubing pressure of 1,000 psi. The nearest Smackover production from the discovery is 2.75 miles north-northwest in Chicora West Field, where both Rebel and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. have drilled successful wells.

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