1 Medicine Bow Energy Corp., Denver, recently acquired by El Paso Production, plans an exploratory well in southern Upshur County, Texas, (RRC 6) apparently looking for Cotton Valley gas to 12,500 ft. According to IHS Energy, the company's #1 Sabine River is in Sam Houston Survey, A-205. The nearest Cotton Valley production was from the #1 Lena Mae Glover, some 2.5 miles north-northeast. That well produced 74.58 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,017 bbl. of condensate and 2,215 bbl. of water from Cotton Valley as part of Gilmer South Field. Shallower production from Pettet above 8,500 ft. lies only a third-mile southwest of the proposed well. 2 Eastern Shelby County, Texas, will get one vertical and one horizontal wildcat in a campaign by Rosetta Energy Partners LP about eight miles east of Shelbyville. The #1 Thomas Fee is to be drilled vertically to 9,500 ft. in the William J. Thomas Survey, A-718. Some 1.25 miles west, the company plans the #2 Thomas Federal in the same survey. The horizontal well will bottom a mile south under William J. Crane Survey, A-95, at 6,120 ft. The nearest production was about two miles south-southeast in Center Field, where the #1 Grannies Creek produced 8,389 bbl. of oil and 13.75 million cu. ft. of casinghead gas between 1995 and August 2004 from Saratoga shallower than 1,990 ft. 3 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Texas, is drilling the 20,000-ft #1 Black Stone Minerals A-17 deep wildcat in the Brittain Hall Survey, A-17. The well, in northeastern Jasper County, Texas, (RRC 3) is less than two miles west of the Newton County line and five miles east-southeast of the city of Jasper. This is Anadarko's second well in the survey. It drilled the #1 Flaming Gorge to 16,000 ft. in February 2004 but released few details, IHS Energy says. The nearest production is in Brookeland Field less than three miles west-northwest. That field produces from Austin Chalk, but there is no production from a similar depth to the Anadarko well. 4 Bryan, Texas, independent BWOC Inc. has scheduled the #1 Timberwolf, a 16,000-ft wildcat to test Woodbine in central Tyler County, Texas (RRC 3). The well will be drilled in John Nowlin Survey, A-487, about 1.25 miles south-southwest of Woodville. More than a mile southwest, a 15,160-ft Woodbine well recovered 237.21 million cu. ft. of gas, 73,199 bbl. of condensate and 5,011 bbl. of water between 1976 and 1985. BWOC, the operator of that well, later completed it for additional production of 43,248 bbl. of oil, 37.78 million cu. ft. of gas and 5,499 bbl. of water. 5 Devon Energy Production Co. LP, Oklahoma City, chalked up a discovery at its #1 Hardy Gas Unit well more than five miles north-northeast of Matagorda in southern Matagorda County, Texas (RRC 3). The discovery in Francis W. Dempsey Survey, A-26, flowed 1.53 million cu. ft. of gas, six bbl. of condensate and three bbl. of water a day from Frio perforations between 13,984 and 14,003 ft. through an adjustable choke with 3,850 psi of flowing casing pressure. Santos USA Corp., Houston, received the permit and drilled the well. 6 Two wildcats are on the drawing boards for Manti Operating Co., Corpus Christi, Texas (RRC 1). The wells are a few miles south of Manti's current drilling program in northeastern McMullen County, Texas (RRC 1). The #1 Peacock will drill to 6,550 ft. in Section 8, Gabriel Vallagram Survey, A-485, about five miles northeast of the town of Tilden. The #2 Peacock will be drilled a few feet northwest to 6,450 ft. The nearest production is from shallower Wilcox less than two miles north-northeast. Nearly three miles northwest of the new wells, Manti has drilled three exploratory wells, the #1, #2 and #3 Double K wells, in Section 59, BS&F Survey, A-149. The company hasn't released results. 7 Chesapeake Operating Inc., Oklahoma City, continued its deep program in Goliad County, Texas, (RRC 2) by permitting the #B2 Hoff, a 15,000-ft. Wilcox well in William Roach Survey, A-247. The well is a third-mile southeast of another Wilcox test-the #B1 Hoff-drilling past 11,900 ft. at last report. Chesapeake completed the #1 Bammer "B" Middle Wilcox well in the same section earlier this year that flowed an unreported amount of gas. 8 In the shallow waters of Red Fish Bay in Nueces County, Texas, (RRC 4) Reef Exploration Inc. tested 1.92 million cu. ft. of gas, 84 bbl. of condensate and five bbl. of water a day from its #1 State Tract 284. The Corpus Christi, Texas, independent's well was drilled from a location on State Tract 285 east and tested through Frio perforations between 11,475 and 11,577 ft. through a 10/64-in. choke with 3,640 psi of flowing tubing pressure. 9 ExxonMobil Corp. completed its #201 Santa Fe Ranch "B" discovery in southeastern Brooks County, Texas, (RRC 4) flowing at a daily rate of 4.6 million cu. ft. of gas, 47 bbl. of condensate and three bbl. of water. The well, in Gil Zarate Survey, A-654, tested through Frio perforations between 7,008-40 ft. through an 18/64-in. choke with 2,615 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The discovery is less than a mile northwest of the closest well in Santa Fe South Field in Hidalgo County. That 1977 well tested at 2.81 million cu. ft. of gas a day, and produced 56.98 million cu. ft. of gas and 33 bbl. of water from Frio through 1981. 10 Viosca Knoll Block 987 hosted a discovery for Walter Oil & Gas Corp., Houston. The company drilled the #1-OCS-G-21736 from the southeast quadrant of the block to the west and tested gas from Pliocene perforations between 5,440 and 5,664 ft. Walter drilled the well to 5,769 ft. and set casing on bottom on the block it bought in March 2000 for $634,000. The well was drilled at the same surface location as Walter's #SS2 OCS-G-14618 well on Block 986. Since that well came online in November 2002, it has production 4.16 billion cu. ft. of gas and 1,950 bbl. of water as part of Viosca Knoll Block 986 Field. The only previous well drilled on Block 987 was abandoned after reaching 14,760 ft. in spite of some oil shows. 11 Apache Corp., Houston, pulled a discovery out of a wildcat offshore Louisiana in Eugene Island Block 345 in the Gulf of Mexico. The #A-4 (BP) OCS-G-21647 was drilled from a surface location on Block 346 south to a total depth of 9,996 ft., or 7,981 ft. true vertical depth, in the Montgomery. Apache plans to bring the well online before the end of the year. Since the nearby #A-1, #A-2 and #A-3 OCS-G-14482 wells came online, also from the "A" platform, they have produced 8.63 million bbl. of oil and condensate, 54.26 billion cu. ft. of gas and 9.73 million bbl. of water from Pliocene as part of Eugene Island Block 346 Field. 12 Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp., Oklahoma City, has drilled its second discovery on East Breaks Block 599 in the Gulf of Mexico. The block currently produces as part of the company's Boomvang Field centered in East Breaks Block 643. The latest well, the #2 OCS-G-19028, found more than 135 ft. of high-quality oil pay in multiple sands on its way to a measured depth of 9,142 ft. in 3,220 ft. of water. The company plans to abandon the well temporarily for completion in 2006 when it will be completed as a subsea well and tied back to the Boomvang hub three miles south. The new field contains between 10- and 20 million bbl. of oil equivalent. 13 Rising Star Energy LLC, Dallas, plans an exploratory well to test Cotton Valley in southern Caddo Parish, northern Louisiana. The #1 Williams 22 is scheduled to 11,000 ft. in Section 22-15n-15w, about four miles south-southwest of Shreveport. Rising Star was completing a similar well about 3.75 miles north-northeast, but the closest Cotton Valley production is in Johnson Branch Field almost five miles northwest of the new well. There, the #1 Norman G. Alexander produced 201.61 million cu. ft. of gas, 4,129 bbl. of condensate and 61,820 bbl. of water in nine months. The operator expanded the producing zone and produced another 130.39 million cu. ft. of gas, 3,450 bbl. of condensate and 79,046 bbl. of water. 14 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Texas, permitted the #1 South Lafourche Farms 3 in northern Caldwell Parish, northern Louisiana. It plans to drill the well directionally within Section 3-14n-4e to a true vertical depth of 16,999 ft. to evaluate the Bossier formation. There is no comparable production in the area. 15 Two wildcats were permitted in southeastern Beauregard Parish in southern Louisiana, both targeting Cockfield. The wells proposed by the Blue Ridge Group, Houston, are about three miles north of the Calcasieu Parish boundary line. The #1 R.J. Winzor et ux 15 is planned to 10,750 ft. in Section 15-7s-9w. The nearest production is about 2.25 miles west-southwest in Section 19, where the #1 Temple Island flowed 503 bbl. of oil and 901,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Cockfield. The other wildcat is more than five miles east-northeast of the Winzor well, where Blue Ridge plans to drill the #1 Temple Island 9, also to 10,750 ft., in Section 9-7s-8w.

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