1 Hallador Petroleum Co. , Denver, reports its #41-5 Cox Federal, Section 5-9n-26w SB, Santa Barbara County, Calif., is a satellite discovery to its South Cuyama Field that was completed flowing 1 million cu. ft. of gas per day. An 18/64-in. choke was used to test through perforations between 3,454-72 ft. in Miocene Santa Margarita. Two additional pay zones totaling 50 ft. were also encountered in the formation. Hallador is the operator and owns a 70% working interest and a 60% revenue interest. The company says the well is an important step in validating its 3-D seismic project that was recently completed. 2 Vancouver-based Habanero Resources Inc. says a decision was made to stop drilling and run casing to 11,581 ft. after significant gas shows were found in three separate reservoirs in the upper part of the Winters objective at the #3-26 Pale Rider, Section 26-5n-1e MD, Solano County, Calif. Production Specialties Co. , Woodland, Calif., is the operator of the exploratory prospect, located a little more than a half-mile north of Denverton Creek Field. It's also 50 ft. from the #2-26 Pale Rider that was recently plugged at a total depth of 11,977 ft. amid concerns about the possible inability to control the well due to high gas pressures. 3 Brundage Canyon Field in Duchesne County, Utah, was extended about half a mile east when Barrett Resources Corp. , Denver, completed the #2-27 Ute Tribal pumping 80 bbl. of oil and 20 bbl. of water per day. IHS Energy Group reports the stepout, in Section 27-5s-4w, is producing through perforations between 5,102-5,612 ft. in Tertiary Green River. 4 A vertical well that had produced from Ordovician Red River in Sheridan County, Mont., has been horizontally redrilled by Billings-based Nance Petroleum Corp. and completed as a shallower-pool Gunton discovery for 433 bbl. of oil, 212,000 cu. ft. of gas and 35 bbl. of water per day. The pumping well is the #2-1H Sorensen, irregular Section 12-33n-58e, that's producing from an openhole horizontal interval between 11,388-13,800 ft. (measured depths). Nance kicked off the original hole at about 9,807 ft. and drilled horizontally approximately 2,255 ft. 5 Exploratory work being carried out in Richland County, Mont., includes a horizontal test completed as a Red River deeper-pool discovery and a wildcat being drilled to evaluate Red River, reports IHS Energy Group. The discovery is the #14-6H Sorenson that yielded 107 bbl. of oil and 84 bbl. of water per day on pump at completion by Continental Resources Inc. , Enid, Okla. A horizontal redrill of a 12,240-ft. vertical dry hole in Section 6-21n-58e, the well is producing from a horizontal Red River "C" interval from 12,485 to 15.253 ft., measured total depth. The projected bottomhole location offsets an abandoned Ordovician Stonewall discovery that produced from 11,765-72 ft. Meanwhile, Armstrong Operating Inc. , Dickinson, N.D., is drilling the wildcat. It's the #18-1 Verschoot, Section 18-23n-54e, that's to bottom at about 11,800 ft. 6 A deeper-pool opener completed by Flying J Oil & Gas Inc. , North Salt Lake, Utah, in North Dakota's Little Knife Field initially flowed 3.6 million cu. ft. of gas, 81 bbl. of condensate and 25 bbl. of water daily from Red River "D." The #8-4 Zabolotny, Section 4-144n-98w, Billings County, was tested on a 24/64-in. choke at approximately 13,850 ft. It's in an area that produces from Mississippian Mission Canyon (Madison) at about 9,800 ft. Additionally, details have just been made available regarding another deeper-pool discovery made in Little Knife Field-the #21-16 Stiletto-that was completed several months ago by Westport Oil & Gas Co. in Section 16-143n-98w. Denver-based Westport pumped 102 bbl. of oil and 300 bbl. of water, with 107,000 cu. ft. of gas, per day from Devonian Duperow at 11,626-30 ft. This well is also in an area of 9,800-ft. Mission Canyon production. 7 Berco Resources LLC , Denver, has completed two horizontal producers in North Dakota, each with a relatively high rate of oil flow. In Williams County's McGregor Field, the gauge was 595 bbl. of oil, 130,000 cu. ft. of gas and 91 bbl. of water at the #6H NDCA, Section 16-158n-95w. The well is producing from an openhole lateral in Devonian Winnipegosis from 11,973 to 15,003 ft. Divide County's Stoneview Field is the site of the other horizontal well-the #3314H Stoneview Stonewall Unit, Section 14-160n-95w. An openhole horizontal Stonewall interval between 12,040-15,027 ft. gave up a flow of 462 bbl. of oil per day. 8 The #33-33 Desolation Flats, a gas discovery drilled by Tom Brown Inc. , Denver, within the 229,781-acre Desolation Flats Natural Gas Project Area in Wyoming, has been completed as a Cretaceous Almond (Mesaverde) producer. No gauges have been reported. According to IHS Energy Group, the 14,060-ft. venture is in 33-15n-95w, Sweetwater County. 9 Drilling depth is below 2,000 ft. at the Gulf Production Corp. #11-16 Jim Hill Draw, a wildcat in Section 16-36n-76w, Converse County, Wyo. The Oklahoma City independent's venture has a target depth of 12,200 ft. in Cretaceous Dakota. 10 True Oil Co. , Casper, is drilling below 7,300 ft. at the wildcat #12-36 O'Connell-State, in Section 36-49n-69w, Campbell County, Wyo. Slated to go to 8,700 ft. to evaluate Pennsylvanian Minnelusa, the venture is being drilled 0.75-mile west and southwest of Slattery Field, which produces oil from Lower Cretaceous Muddy and from Minnelusa. 11 A new producer completed by Chevron USA Production Co. in the Whitney Canyon-Carter Creek complex in southwestern Wyoming initially flowed 10.328 million cu. ft. of gas and 52.5 bbl. of condensate per day. IHS Energy Group says Chevron's #3-6F Chevron-Federal, in the Overthrust Belt, yielded the production from three formations-Permian Phosphoria between 12,910-13,560 ft., Pennsylvanian Weber at 13,640-60 ft. and Mission Canyon between 15,298-15,553 ft. The Uinta County well is in Section 6-18n-119w. 12 Midland-based Pennwell Energy Inc. recorded an initial pump gauge of 132 bbl. of oil per day from Jurassic Entrada at its #1-36 Torreon Wash-State in New Mexico's McKinley County. The Arena Blanca Field development well, in Section 36-20n-5w, is producing from an openhole vertical interval from 5,495 to 5,505 ft., total depth. 13 Phillips Alaska Inc. and BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. each received drilling permits recently for two North Slope wildcats in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, according to IHS Energy Group. Phillips is moving in rotary tools to drill one of its tests-the #2 Rendezvous, which is to be directionally drilled from a surface location in Section 8-9n-2e UM northwestward to a proposed bottomhole location in Section 6-9n-2e UM. Still a location is the #1 Lookout in Section 36-11n-2e UM. The area lies roughly 20 miles west-southwest of Alpine Field. BP's permits are for two more vertical exploratory tests on its Trailblazer Prospect, approximately 40 miles west-northwest of Alpine Field. They are the #G-01 Trailblazer in Section 6-11n-2w UM, and #H-01 Trailblazer in Section 6-12n-3w UM. 14 Aurora Gas LLC , Houston, has announced that its Nicolai Creek Unit workover project, on the west side of Alaska's Cook Inlet, attained a sustained flow rate of more than 4 million cu. ft. of gas per day. The #3 Nicolai Creek Unit, in Section 20-11n-12w SM, flowed gas from five commingled perforated intervals in Miocene Upper Tyonek from 1,900 ft. t0 2,380 ft. The well, which had been shut in for more than 20 years, was cleaned out, reperforated and gravel packed prior to the test. The company says success on this test was critical to its future intentions to develop the Nicolai Creek Unit and that it can now proceed with plans to rework or drill at least two additional tests.
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