1 Ron's Oil Operating Inc., Penokee, Kan., discovered oil at a rate of 144 bbl. a day on pump at its #2-1 Savage wildcat in Section 2-5s-30w in southwestern Decatur County, Kan., about eight miles northwest of Selden. The northwestern Kansas well produced through acidized perforations in Lansing-Kansas City between 4,135-38 ft., IHS Energy reports. The company also drilled #2-2 Savage wildcat as a southwest offset in the same section. The discovery well, drilled to 4,210 ft., has been designated the opener for Swede Hollow South Field. It is a mile south of Swede Hollow Field, where #1 Wasson Brothers Farms pumped an initial 100 bbl. of oil a day from Lansing-Kansas City.



2 F.G. Holl Co. LLC, Wichita, Kan., pumped oil at a rate of 48 bbl. of oil with 10 bbl. of water a day from its #1-22 Staats Trust wildcat in Section 22-30s-14w in northwestern Barber County, Kansas. The discovery, about 4.5 miles northeast of Sun City, produced from Simpson perforations between 4,568-82 ft. Cottonwood Creek Field lies more than a half-mile southwest, but a dry hole separates the discovery from that abandoned field. The opener for Cottonwood Creek Field, which lies on the western flank of the Pratt Anticline, tested for 4.5 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Simpson and produced 122 million cu. ft. of gas before it was plugged.



3 A wildcat drilled 10 miles north of Searcy in northern Arkansas found 360 gross ft. of Fayetteville shale for Seeco Inc., a unit of Houston-based Southwestern Energy. The #1-12-H-Hefley is in Section 12-9n-7w in northern White County. If completion proves the well as a success, it will be the northeasternmost Fayetteville producer to date. The well is eight miles northeast of Fayetteville wells in Little Creek Field. Seeco planned to drill #1-12-H-Hefley as a 6,000-ft. horizontal well, but it hasn't yet released drilling details.



4 Hanna Oil & Gas Co., Fort Smith, Ark., permitted #1 Hansen in Section 16-5n-27w to test zones through the Borum to 8,000 ft. The location is three miles southeast of Booneville in southern Logan County, Ark. About a mile east, the company completed #1 Porter last October to extend Fletcher Creek Field 1.25 miles east-southeast. That well, in Section 17, tested 1.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day through a 48/64-in. choke after the Nichols formation was perforated from 3,890 and 4,388 ft. and fractured. That 8,040-ft. well also penetrated Borum.



5 A 19,000-ft. Kiowa County, Okla., wildcat is on the drawing boards for Marathon Oil Co., Houston. It will drill #1-3 Laufer in Section 3-7n-16w along the Gotebo/Mountain View fault area, some two miles north of the town of Gotebo in the southern Anadarko Basin. The well will test Atoka at 11,700 ft., Morrow at 12,500 ft. and Springer at 15,000 ft. Four wells in the same section, completed during the past 53 years, have produced a total 2.5 billion cu. ft. of gas and 1,400 bbl. of condensate from Overturned Springer between 5,300 and 5,500 ft. and 6,100 and 6,900 ft. in Gotebo Northwest and Gotebo North fields. The deepest well to date is #1 Troub in Section 1-7n-16w. The operator plugged the well as uneconomic after drilling to 11,588 ft. In nearby activity, Marathon is expanding its deep exploration campaign. It has a pooling case before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for Section 12-8n-18w, one to two miles north of the town of Rocky. That location is two to three miles west-northwest of Marathon's #1-17 Folks, a 19,700-ft. exploratory test that tested for 10.8 million cu. ft. of gas with 20 bbl. of water a day from Springer perforations from four sets of perforations between 19,048 and 19,532 ft.



6 Sedna Energy Inc., Fort Smith, Ark., plans a wildcat on the western flank of the Arkoma Basin in Pittsburg County, Okla., to test Ordovician Viola. Sedna will drill the so-far-unnamed well in Section 3-3n-13e about two miles north-northwest of Kiowa to evaluate Atoka, Wapanucka, Cromwell, Caney, Mayes, Woodford and Sylvan, as well. The site is 1.5 miles north-northwest of the abandoned #1-14 Caldwell that produced 27.6 million cu. ft. of gas from Wapanucka from November 1976 to May 1979 and was recompleted to produce 184.6 million cu. ft. of gas from Atoka between June 1979 and March 1989, according to IHS Energy. The closest current production is two miles east in Brewer South Field, from Hartshorne and Atoka.



7 Cimarex Energy Co., Denver, staked a 13,600-ft. wildcat more than six miles north of Lovington in Lea County, N.M. The #1 Gunnison 33 Fee is in Section 33-14s-36e. A half-mile south, Midland, Texas-based Manhattan Petroleum Inc. drilled #1 Caudill 33 and apparently perforated Strawn before shutting in the well. Nearby production comes from Caudill Field, a field that produces from formations from Permo-Pennsylvanian to Devonian. Cimarex has several tests planned for the area.



8 Mack Energy Corp., Artesia, N.M., will move in a rig to drill two vertical wildcats to 8,200 ft. in western Eddy County, N.M. It plans #1 Montie Federal Com in Section 27-18s-23e, and a mile south-southeast, #1 Lumpy Federal Com in Section 34 of the same township. The #1 Montie is two miles east-southeast of Mack's #1 Walrus State. That 6,560-ft. well in Four Mile Draw Field has produced 26.8 million cu. ft. of gas, 16 bbl. of condensate and 119 bbl. of water from Wolfcamp since October 2004. Mack also operates #1 Radar State Com 1.25 miles southwest of #1 Lumpy. That Runyan Ranch Field well has produced 11.97 million cu. ft. of gas and 30 bbl. of water from Abo shale from 4,430 to 4,692 ft. since late 2004.



9 A new test in its horizontal exploration and development program in central Roberts County, Texas, (RRC 10) will look at Granite Wash for Dallas-based Grayhawk Operating Inc. The #205 Kivlehen, in Section 5, Block B, H&GN Survey, A-82, will be drilled north to a measured depth of 11,000 ft. in the western Anadarko Basin. The wildcat is more than 0.75-mile west of a Granite Wash well in Lard Ranch Field and some 18 miles northwest of Miami. The first well in Grayhawk's program was the horizontal #1060 Lard Ranch, nearly two miles northeast of the latest wildcat. That 10,175-ft. well tested for 2.93 million cu. ft. of gas, 50 bbl. of condensate and 250 bbl. of load water a day on a 24/64-in. choke from perforations between 8,720 ft. and 10,155 ft. after fracturing. Flowing tubing pressure was 1,353 psi.



10 Courson Oil & Gas Inc., Perryton, Texas, will drill a deeper-pool exploratory well at its #2 Parnell Brothers "B" in Section 494, Block 43, H&TC Survey, A-632, about 14 miles southeast of the company's headquarters in southeastern Ochiltree County, Texas (RRC 10). The 12,500-ft. test probably will evaluate zones through Ellenburger. The well is an offset west and southwest of abandoned noncommercial wells with shows in Morrow and Cleveland. The nearest production from pre-Pennsylvanian zones is 7.5 miles west in Mississippian and inactive Hunton wells in Ellis Ranch, Dutcher and Pshigoda fields. The deepest existing test in the region is a 12,112-ft. dry hole drilled in 1968 some 1.25 miles southeast of the planned Courson well. That well showed the top of the Ellenburger at 11,906 ft. and gas shows in Cleveland, Lower Morrow, Hunton, Simpson and Ellenburger.



11 Hastings Oil Co., Dallas, plans #1 Hastings Ranch "C" in Section 1892, TE&L Survey, A-572, on the Bend Arch a quarter-mile west of the Clay County boundary in Archer County, Texas (RRC 9). The 6,000-ft. test, more than four miles south of the town of Windthorst, presumably will evaluate potential production through Pennsylvanian. The closest production from Pennsylvanian is from Demoss Sand in Archer County Regular Field, 0.75-mile west-northwest. That unit has produced 150,523 bbl. of oil, 3.65 million cu. ft. of gas and 194,872 bbl. of water since 1979, according to IHS Energy.



12 Southwestern Dickens County, Texas, (RRC 8A) will host a pair of wells on the western flank of Trifecta Field for Hollis R. Sullivan Inc. of Wichita Falls, Texas. The company will drill its #2 Moore to 7,200 ft. in Section 183, Block 1, H&GN Survey, A-98, to look at Stockwether Lime, Croton Lime and Tannehill. Approximately a mile south-southwest, it will drill #1 Spring Creek to 7,200 ft. in Section 177, Block 1, H&GN Survey, A-95. The nearest producer to that well is in Trifecta Field where a Tannehill well tested last March pumping 80 bbl. of oil a day.



13 San Angelo, Texas-based Pain Rock Operating LLC plans a 3,500-ft. well at its #1 Slaughter in Section 12, Block 71, TT RR Co. Survey, A-1754, in northeastern Concho County, Texas (RRC 7C). The company also drilled #1 Reynolds less than a mile north, but few details are available about that well. More than two miles east-southeast, #1 S.A. Hartgrove well is the nearest producer in Hartgrove Field. That 1954 well produced a cumulative 670.96 million cu. ft. of gas and 902 bbl. of water by 1978 when production stopped. It produced from Tannehill between 1,131-37 ft.



14 Operators continue to work relatively new campaigns to Barnett/Woodford shales in Reeves County, Texas (RRC 8). Burlington Resources Oil & Gas LP, Houston, recompleted #1 Dornfield in Medusa Field for 922,000 cu. ft. of gas a day through fractured perforations between 12,503 and 12,725 ft. in Barnett and 13,024 and 13,158 ft. in Woodford through a 12/64-in. choke with 1,440 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The 13,500-ft. Delaware Basin well is in Section 16, Block 58, PSL Survey, A-2282. The well is 12 miles west of the only other well in Medusa Field. The other well, #1 Kirk, flowed gas at 2.04 million cu. ft. a day through acid- and fracture-treated perforations in the upper and lower Barnett.

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