1 Stroud Petroleum Inc., Shreveport, La., has completed a discovery in Upshur County, East Texas, (RRC 6) for 40 bbl. of oil and 10,000 cu. ft. of gas a day. The company tested its #1 Oberlin in John T. Smith Survey, A-442, from Travis Peak perforations between 8,448-56 ft. though a 48/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 25 psi. The company drilled to 10,264 ft. and plugged back to 9,100 ft. The well is three miles from the nearest Travis Peak production in Cedar Springs Field where the #1 M.H. Newsom produced 1 billion cu. ft. of gas, 19,182 bbl. of condensate and 7,631 bbl. of water. 2 Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co., Houston, spud its #1 T-Bar-X/R Brewer a mile southeast of Franklin in Robertson County, Texas (RRC 5). The 15,750-ft. wildcat is in Francis Slauter Survey, A-335. The nearest similar drilling was a 1966 well, which was abandoned at its 17,474-ft. total depth. Burlington drilled a similar well about 1.25 miles south-southeast in the same survey and set casing to 12,291 ft. 3 Strand Energy LLC, Houston, completed a discovery in northwestern Waller County, Texas, (RRC 3) for 25 bbl. of oil, 300,000 cu. ft. of gas and 75 bbl. of water a day. Strand tested its #1 Schulz, in the Thomas Stevens Survey, A-57, at a Wilcox zone between 10,443-49 ft. through a 16/64-in. choke with 240 psi of flowing tubing pressure. 4 Santos USA Corp., Houston-based subsidiary of Santos Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, flowed 20.1 million cu. ft. of gas, two bbl. of condensate and 82 bbl. of water daily from a deeper-pool discovery in Nordheim Southwest Field in Dewitt County, Texas (RRC 2). It tested the #6 Remmers (Deep) Gas Unit on a 26/62-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 5,799 psi from a Wilcox interval between 13,202-50 ft. The well is in Antonio Lazo Survey, A-653. Santos is drilling two more deep tests in the same survey, according to IHS Energy. 5 A 3.4-million-cu.-ft.-of-gas-per-day discovery resulted from U.S. Enercorp. LLC's #1 Duwel, drilled in Section 42, AB&M survey, A-1190, in McMullen County, Texas (RRC 1). The 9,210-ft. well also produced 46 bbl. of condensate and 10 bbl. of water a day through a 12/64-in. choke from Wilcox perforations between 8,711-28 ft. Flowing tubing pressure was 4,305 psi. The company permitted another wildcat about two-thirds-mile north-northeast. Hostetter Field, 1.5 miles southwest has produced 177.4 billion cu. ft. of gas, 1.44 million bbl. of condensate and 3.67 million bbl. of water, primarily from Wilcox. 6 Jamex Inc., Dallas, completed a Wilcox well for 6.4 million cu. ft. of gas to reestablish production and extend Fort Merrill North Field in Live Oak County, Texas (RRC2). The #1 Langham produced through perforations between 11,700-04 ft. in the Slick "B" sand in the GH&H RR Co. Survey, A-197. The well produced through a 14/64-in-choke with 7,515 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Fort Merrill North Field is about 1.5 miles east-northeast in Pablo Salinas Survey, A-418. 7 Manti Operating Co., Corpus Christi, Texas, completed its #1 Baffin Bay State Tract 83 well immediately west of Baffin Bay in Block 37, Gabriel Trevino Survey, A-232, in Kleburg County, Texas (RRC 4). The 10,950-ft. wildcat flowed 370 bbl. of oil, 303,000 cu. ft. of gas and 12 bbl. of water per day from perforations between 9,969 ft. and 9,077 ft. through a 16/64-in. choke with 742 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Nearest production is about a half-mile northwest on the southeast flank of Yeary Field, where the dually completed #1 V.A. Hubert, drilled in 1960, flowed 2.2 million cu. ft. of gas from Frio between 8,834-70 ft.and 1.5 million cu. ft. of gas from another Frio interval between 10,855-78 ft. 8 ExxonMobil Corp. made an apparent new-pool discovery in its Candelaria Field in Kenedy County, Texas (RRC 4). The #49-F Charles M. Armstrong workover flowed 306 bbl. of oil and 617,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from an unreported formation. The company tested the well, which is in La Barreta Survey, A-3, through a 14/64-in. choke with flowing casing pressure of 750 psi from perforations between 6,086-98 ft. The company originally completed the well in two Frio intervals between 6,398 ft. and 6,755 ft. 9 In the shallow water of Baffin Bay in Kenedy County, Texas, ExxonMobil Corp. brought in the #4 Baffin Bay State Gas Unit 3 well in Baffin Bay Field flowing 15.6 million cu. ft. of gas, 85 bbl. of condensate and 191 bbl. of water a day. The directional development well, in Alvino & Domingo de la Garza ("La Parra") Survey, A-37, produced from an unreported formation between 14,570 ft. and 15,586 ft. through a 30/64-in. choke with 5,515 psi of flowing tubing pressure. 10 Samedan Oil Corp., Houston, completed a wildcat discovery in northern Calcasieu Parish, La., flowing 2.3 million cu. ft. of gas, 268 bbl. of condensate and three bbl. of water per day. The #1 Temple-Inland 25, drilled about 0.75-mile south of De Quincy, La., in Section 25-7s-11w, tested a Yegua interval between 9,380-84 ft. through a 9/64-in. choke with 5,690 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Samedan drilled the well to 9,700 ft. and plugged back to 9,448 ft. There is no Yegua production in the area. The nearest field produces from Frio, according to IHS Energy. 11 Mayne & Mertz Inc., Houston, drilled an oil discovery 1.5 miles south of Westlake in central Calcasieu Parish, La. The #1 Entergy wildcat, in Section 21-9s-9w, tested Frio for 295 bbl. of oil and 1.4 million cu. ft. of gas per day through a 12/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 2,150 psi. The directional well was drilled to a measured depth of 9,444 ft. The nearest Frio producer in 3.75 miles northwest in Buhler Field, where the #1 Gabriel Brenez was tested for 1.53 million cu. ft. of gas a day. 12 El Paso Production Co., Houston, tested 14.2 million cu. ft. of gas and 1,056 bbl. of condensate a day at its JB Mountain prospect on South Marsh Island Block 223. The #218 (BP) OCS-G-0310 tested through a 14/64-in. choke with 13,300 psi of flowing tubing pressure, according to partner McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans. The equipment limited the test and additional analysis showed the well is capable of production at a rate of 61 million cu. ft. of gas a day with 4,900 bbl. of condensate. El Paso drilled the well in 10 ft. of water to 22,000 ft. The companies have put a second well on a fast track and hope to begin production in this quarter. Investors nearly doubled the price of McMoRan stock following the announcement. 13 Remington Oil and Gas Corp., Dallas, drilled a deep discovery well in shallow water offshore Louisiana in South Marsh Island Block 24. The #2 (BP) OCS-G-22643 tested 20 million cu. ft. of gas and 900 bbl. of condensate a day from a 52-ft. interval above 16,970 ft. The company, with partner Magnum Hunter Resources, plans to modify the caisson over the well in 81 ft. of water to accommodate the "A" platform. This is a deep-shelf gas discovery that qualifies for royalty relief on the first 20 billion cu. ft. of gas produced, under incentive rules directed by the Minerals Management Service. The well was drilled from the same surface location as the #1 well, which was junked and abandoned at 13,400 ft. last fall. 14 ChevronTexaco Inc. completed a sidetrack in state waters off Lafourche Parish, La., in Bay Marchand Block 2 for 1,380 bbl. of oil and 152,000 cu. ft. of gas a day. The #75 State Lease 1366 tested an openhole interval in Miocene from 3,494 ft. to 4,307 ft. after being drilled directionally to 4,341 ft. (2,677 ft. true vertical depth). Chevron had abandoned the original well in 1966 at a shallower depth. Bay Marchand Offshore Field has produced 202.7 million bbl. of oil and condensate, 249.4 billion cu. ft. of gas and 305.2 million bbl. of water from Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene since its discovery in the 1950s. 15 ChevronTexaco Inc. has permitted a sidetrack to a wildcat on its Tahiti prospect on Green Canyon Block 596 as it tries to extend the prospect north. It will drill the #1 (ST2) OCS-G-16759 out of the #1 (ST) wellbore. ChevronTexaco plans as many as five tests on the block at separate surface locations in 3,895 to 4,075 ft. of water. It also has spudded a well in Block 640 immediately south. In addition to Tahiti, the company plans wells a short distance southwest on Green Canyon blocks 726, 727, 770 and 771 to test its Tonga prospect. South of Tonga, Unocal Corp., Houston, plans to drill its Myrtle Beach prospect in Green Canyon 943 and its Corona del Mar prospect in Green Canyon 949. 16 Radzewicz Exploration & Drilling Corp., Natchez, Miss., has reached total depth at 13,850 ft., apparently in Lower Tuscaloosa, at its #1 Hamilton-Barron et al. unit wildcat in Section 35-1n-2w in south-central Wilkinson County, Miss., about 1.5 miles north of West Feliciana Parish, La. The nearest previous activity is about 0.66-mile northeast, where the #1 Board Supervisors well was abandoned at 9,010 ft. in 1959. The nearest Lower Tuscaloosa production is 2.66 miles east-northeast, where Radzewicz completed the #1 Stockett Unit in 1981 at 13,622 ft. That Ashwood Field well has produced a cumulative 7.2 million cu. ft. of gas, 4,003 bbl. of condensate and 845 bbl. of water.

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