NORTHEAST/SOUTHEAST

1 Pioneer Oil Co., Lawrenceville, Ill., has added an oil producer to the Posey County, Ind., Spencer Consolidated Field, reports IHS Energy Group. Pioneer's #4C Klein-State of Indiana, in Section 14-8s-14w, initially pumped 100 bbl. of oil per day from 2,858-64 ft. in Mississippian Rosiclare. The 3,220-ft. well was originally set up as a 4,000-ft. test of the deeper Mississippian Warsaw. 2 Drilling has been started by Lexington-based Energy Associates Inc. at the #1 Dewey Luttrell, a wildcat in Section 6-H-56, Casey County, Ky. The venture, scheduled to go to 2,000 ft. to test Cambro-Ordovician Knox, is nearly 1.5 miles northwest of Windsor Field, which produced oil from Knox at about 1,800 ft. 3 An indicated shallower-pool discovery has been drilled by Bridgeport, W.Va., independent Petroleum Development Corp. (PDC) at the #3-16 USA Big Creek in Michigan's Church Lake Field. PDC has set pipe at its 4,350-ft. prospect that was originally set up as a 4,600-ft. test of Devonian zones, including Richfield. IHS Energy Group says the test, in Section 16-25n-2e, Big Creek Township, Oscoda County, offsets gas/condensate production from Ordovician St. Peter and Glenwood between 9,981-10,004 ft. 4 A dry hole, the #1-12A State-Allis in Presque Isle County, Mich., is to be directionally redrilled to a total depth of 3,678 ft. in Silurian Niagaran by PetroStar Energy, Traverse City, Mich. The project's surface location is in Section 12-33n-2e, Allis Township. It's a redrill of a 3,822-ft. vertical test that apparently yielded shows of gas while being drilled in Niagaran. 5 Upper Cambrian Conasauga is the objective of a deeper-pool wildcat in Ohio's Stony Point Field, where Tatum Petroleum, Columbus, plans to drill to a total depth of 7,000 ft. According to IHS Energy Group, Tatum's project is the #1 Erin in Section 4, Highland Township, Otsego Quad, Muskingum County. Wells in the area produce from Silurian Clinton, Cambro-Ordovician Beekmantown and Upper Cambrian Rose Run. 6 Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, drilled to a total depth of 5,000 ft. and is running logs at the #1 Wicks, a remote wildcat in Section G, Belden Quad, Colesville Township, Broome County, N.Y. The prospect was to be drilled to a total depth of 4,865 ft. to evaluate the gas potential of several zones through Ordovician. There is no producing well within 17 miles of the #1 Wicks. 7 The neighboring New York counties of Cayuga and Onondaga are each scheduled to get a wildcat, both to be drilled by Dallas-based RSE Partners-I LP The Cayuga County test-the #1-14 Townsend in Section F, Cato Quad, Ira Township-has a projected depth of 4,600 ft. in Ordovician Trenton. A much shallower projected depth, 2,600 ft., has been assigned the Onondaga County venture, the #1-14 Bartoszewski in Section G, Lysander Quad, Lysander Township. Ordovician Queenston is the zone to be tested. 8 Pennsylvania General Energy Corp., Warren, Pa., intends to drill to 10,300 ft. to test Trenton at a new-field wildcat in Steuben County, N.Y. The new location is the #1300 Howe in Section E, Corning Quad, Hornby Township, reports IHS Energy Group. 9 Indiana County, Pa., is the site of the #1299 Glenn H. Lowman, a deeper-pool wildcat to be drilled by Pennsylvania General Energy Corp. in Marion Center Field. The company's new venture, in Section G, Rochester Mills Quad, Grant Township, is to be drilled to a depth of 8,000 ft. in Oriskany. 10 Gas flow amounted to 9.2 million cu. ft. per day on a 32/64-in. choke from Lower Devonian Oriskany and Helderberg at the Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. #4 Lick Run, an exploratory test in Westmoreland County, Pa., reports Cabot. The company says the well-in Section G, Rachelwood Quad, Fairfield Township-bottomed at approximately 8,000 ft. It also has potential pay in the shallower Devonian Huntersville Chert, which will be tested later. Cabot has a 50% working interest in the well and is the operator. 11 A Trenton-Black River discovery completed by Columbia Natural Resources Inc. (CNR) in Roane County, W.Va., has been confirmed by the company. Charleston-based CNR says it recorded a flow of gas from a depth of 9,630 ft. in the top of the target formation at the 9,712-ft. #23975 Juanita Groves et al., its second well in Cottontree Field. The confirmation well's operational characteristics are similar in many respects to the discovery-the #20097 Frederick C. Parker et al. Trenton-Black River yielded a flow of gas estimated at 50 million cu. ft. per day at the discovery. Both wells are in Geary District, Clio Quad. 12 Elsewhere in West Virginia, in Preston County, Columbia Natural Resources Inc. is set to drill to 9,000 ft. to evaluate Helderberg at the #623953 Charles & Maxine Howdershelt. The Eastern Overthrust Belt wildcat is in Pleasant District, Valley Point Quad. It's nearly six miles east of South Burns Chapel Field, says IHS Energy Group. 13 A pair of exploratory tests targeting Devonian are scheduled for Wise County, Va., both staked by Equitable Production Co., Kingsport, Tenn., in the Roaring Fork Field area. Both in Roberson District, Flat Gap Quad, they are the 4,600-ft. #V-4319 Power River Coal & Iron and the 4,850-ft. #V-4198 Penn Virginia Oil & Gas. The former is about two miles northwest of the field and the latter, nearly a mile northwest. 14 Knob Lick, Ky., independent Young Oil Corp. reports it has made an Ordovician Murfreesboro discovery in the Millers Chapel-Ivyton area of Overton County, Tenn. The #2 Austin Choate, Section 5-2s-53e, Alpine Quad, came in flowing at an initial rate of 200 bbl. of oil per day from an openhole interval between 1,475 ft. and 1,500 ft., total depth. Previously established oil production in the area of the deeper-pool opener is from Ordovician Sunnybrook at about 800 ft. 15 Frisco City Sand of Jurassic Haynesville is the objective of a wildcat staked by Goldston Oil Corp., Houston, in Monroe County, Ala., reports the Southeastern Oil Review. Goldston's venture, the #1 Ivey-Stewart 14-11 in Section 14-6n-7e, has a projected depth of 11,700 ft. 16 Alabama's Lamar County continues to see more than its share of exploratory activity, with many of the operators seeking production from Mississippian Lewis. IHS Energy Group reports on two Lewis exploratory tests in the county. They are the 3,000-ft. wildcat #1 Otts 36-3 in Section 36-13s-15w, scheduled by Hughes Eastern Corp., Jackson, Miss., and the 4,500-ft. #2 Roberts 26-11 in Section 26-15s-16w, staked by Medallion Exploration, Midvale, Utah. Meanwhile, the Southeastern Oil Review reports that Local Inc., Cottondale, Ala., plans to drill to 2,500 ft. at another Paleozoic wildcat in the county, the #1 Burnett 16-14 in Section 16-14s-14w.