?1 A Wilcox wildcat discovery was completed in central Refugio County, Texas (RRC District 2), flowing 560,000 cu. ft. of gas and 18 bbl. of 53.4-degree condensate per day through perforations at 7,239-41 ft. The operator of #10 Scanio-Shelton is Mantle Oil & Gas LLC of Houston. On an 8/64-in. choke, flowing and shut-in tubing pressures were gauged at 2,200 psi and 2,863 psi, respectively. Drilled on a 620-acre lease in the Refugio Survey, A-345, the new producer reached a total depth of 8,700 ft. At last report, 51/2-in. production casing was set to 7,500 ft. The completion offsets to the southwest #6-D Mitchell in the same survey. Mission River Field has been onstream since 1930, producing primarily from Frio.?Mantle recently permitted another test in the area, #12 Scanio/Shelton, and plans to drill it to a total depth of 8,800 ft.?

2 Square Mile Energy LLC of Houston has completed a discovery in northwestern Matagorda County (RRC District 3), just outside the city limits of Blessing, Texas. The #1 Wallace was tested flowing at more than 1 million cu. ft. of gas and 11 bbl. of 45.8-degree condensate per day through perforations at 9,652-92 ft. in Frio. On a 7/64-in. choke, flowing and shut-in pressures were gauged at 2,465 psi and 3,515 psi, respectively. Located on the W.E. Joseph Wallace Survey, A-99, the new producer reached a total depth of 10,400 ft. Log tops include Frio at 6,744 ft. and Anomalina bilateralis (Frio) at 9,646 ft.

3 Another Frio discovery of more than 5 million cu. ft. of gas and 200 bbl. of 50.9-degree condensate has been reported by Square Mile Energy. The #1 Topaz is 10 miles southwest of Bay City, Texas, in northwestern Matagorda County, Texas (RRC District 3). The #1 Topaz, in John Partin Survey, A-69, was drilled to 10,600 ft. and perforated at 10,282-10,316ft. in Anomalina bilateralis. Flowing and shut-in tubing pressures were gauged at 3,565 psi and 3,765 psi, respectively, on an 11/64-in. choke. Recent completions by Square Mile in its Frio drilling program include #1 Mango in the Pumphrey Burnett Survey, A-12, and #1 and #2 Saha-Petersen Gas Units, also in Pumphrey Burnett Survey, A-12.?

4 According to IHS Inc., The Meridian Resource Corp. of Houston has tested and completed a substantial dual-lateral horizontal Austin Chalk producer in Polk County (RRC District 3), about three miles east of Leggett, Texas. The #1 Davis A-388 tested at 19 million cu. ft. of gas and 3,200 bbl. of oil per day. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 13,000 ft.; one lateral was drilled 6,000 ft. and the second, to approximately 5,500 ft. Open-choke flow tubing measurements were recorded at 1,200 psi and shut-in pressures at 4,650 psi. Meridian has a 45% interest in the well.

5 Houston-based Rosetta Resources Inc. has completed a well in Jefferson County, Texas, (RRC District 3) about three miles east of the town of Port Arthur in Sabine Lake. The #3 State Tract 30 Unit flowed 7.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 471 bbl. of 47.5-degree condensate and 16 bbl. of water per day through perforations at 12,710-42 ft. in Hackberry. On a 19/64-in. choke, flowing and shut-in tubing pressures were gauged at 3,731 psi and 5,602 psi, respectively. The 13,337-ft. test was drilled in Pleasure Island Field in Block 30, 1s-49e. The company had two existing wells in the prolific field.

6 Nippon Oil Exploration USA Ltd. has filed plans to drill wells from two existing platforms on Sabine Pass Block 13, a shallow-water reservoir that started producing in 1981. According to the plans, Nippon will drill wells #A-6 and #A-7 from the A platform in the block offshore Louisiana. Three additional wells, #B-4, #B-5 and #B-6, will be drilled from the adjacent B platform. The company expects to bring the five wells online by mid-2009. Water depth in the area is 30 ft. In May 2008 production from Block 13 Field was 6,264 bbl. of oil and 12.7 million cu. ft. of gas. Nippon has its headquarters in Houston, and is an operating division of Japan’s Nippon Corp.

7 IHS Inc. reports that a Cotton Valley well, #30-1 Cash Point, encountered 70 to 85 ft. of effective gas pay for Southern Star Operating Inc. The well was drilled in Sentell Field in the western portion of North Louisiana’s Bossier Parish, in Section 30-19n-13w. The key intervals in the Upper and Lower Davis have up to 70 net ft. of pay and potential pay of five to 10 net ft. in Roseberry, below Lower Davis. Southern Star reported that there are excellent shows above the Davis interval, with six to eight net ft. of pay developed in the Cotton Valley B. Completion operations, including hydraulic fracturing, will begin after the rig moves. The #30-1 Cash Point is Southern Star’s sixth consecutive successful Cotton Valley well in Sentell Field. The company has its headquarters in Houston.

8 A recent workover project by?Natchez, Miss.-based Aldridge Operating Co. LLC in two-well Peason Ridge Field worked successfully. The #1 Hodges was tested flowing 230 bbl. of 35-degree oil and 30 bbl. of water per day through perforations at 3,388-96 ft. in Upper Wilcox. Using a 12/64-in. choke, flowing tubing pressure was gauged at 200 psi. The new producer is in Section 16-4n-9w of Vernon Parish, La.

9 A re-entry Miocene well completion by Dallas-based Petro-Hunt LLC pumped 2,592 bbl. of 37-degree oil per day from Weeks Island Field in South Louisiana’s Iberia Parish. The #6 Goodrich-Cocke, Section 14s-6e, was drilled to a depth of 8,066 ft. and tested at 200,000 cu. ft. of gas through perforations at 8,046-52 ft. On a 1-in. choke, flowing tubing and shut-in pressures were gauged at 250 psi and 1,125 psi, respectively. The well was originally completed in 2001 and flowed 600 bbl. and 160,000 cu. ft. gas per day from Miocene perforations at 7,902-80 ft.

10 A two-tract development plan has been filed by ATP Oil & Gas Corp. of Houston for its Clipper prospect in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. The company plans to install subsea trees over #SS1 OCS G15571 and #SS2 OCS G22939, which were drilled from offsetting locations in the southeastern corner of Block 299. The bottomhole location for #SS2 well is east, beneath Block 300. Jumpers will connect each tree to the platform-leg extensions in the flowline system. Two 5-in. right-of- way pipelines and umbilicals will transport hydrocarbons to the Front Runner spar on Green Canyon Block 338. ATP expects production from Clipper to begin as early as December 2009.

11 W&T Offshore Inc. has filed development plans for two expected gas producers on an existing platform on Main Pass Block 283 in the Gulf of Mexico. Based in Houston, W&T has permitted two wells, #A-6 and #A-6 (BP) OCS G26168, to be drilled from the operator’s A platform, in 300 ft. of water. The company will drill to bottomhole locations on Block 279 to the north. IHS Inc. reports that W&T acquired Block 279 at OCS Sale 190 in March 2004 for $550,279. Block 283 has three Miocene tracts and has produced 921,000 cu. ft. of gas, 198 bbl. of condensate, and 140 bbl. of water since May 2008.?
W&T has also filed development plans for Grand Isle Block 108. It plans to drill from an existing A platform to the southeastern corner of South Timbalier Block 229. Two wells on Block 229 drilled from the same platform have a combined production of 11.1 billion cu. ft. of gas and 426,054 bbl. of condensate.

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