1 V.F. Neuhaus Properties, McAllen, Texas, and Makoil Inc., Las Vegas, both plan wildcats in Railroad Valley, Nevada's most prolific producing region. The Neuhaus #36-1 Little Giant is in Section 36-10n-56e, and the Makoil #36-33E Inselberg is a half-mile south in the same section, according to IHS Energy. Neither company disclosed the projected depth or target formation for the wells, but the locations are about 2.25 miles north of Trap Springs Field, which produces oil from Tertiary Garrett Ranch volcanics at depths shallower than 4,600 ft. That field has produced 13.7 million bbl. of oil and 65.2 million bbl. of water. 2 Gasco Production Co., Englewood, Colo., plans two exploratory wells, both to 11,800 ft. between 14 and 15 miles south of Randlett, in eastern Uintah County, Utah. Both wells will aim at Mesaverde gas. The Uinta Basin wells are the #24-14-9-19 Lamb Trust, in irregular Section 14-9s-19e, and the #24-22-9-19 Lamb Trust, in Section 22-9s-19e, about 1.5 miles southwest. The company completed the #22-22-9-19 Lytham-Federal discovery in Wasatch/Mesaverde in Section 22-9s-19e last year. That well flowed 2.28 million cu. ft. of gas, four bbl. of condensate and 362 bbl. of formation and load water per day from eight Wasatch and Mesaverde sections between 6,777 and 11,490 ft. Gasco tested the well through a 26/64-in. choke with 700 psi of flowing tubing pressure. It produced 84.5 million cu. ft. of gas, 624 bbl. of condensate and 10,049 bbl. of water in its first five months online. The company also drilled the #23-21-9-19 Federal a mile west-southwest of the Lytham-Federal well. It produced 126 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,204 bbl. of condensate and 19,060 bbl. of water in 13 months. 3 San Diego-based Royale Energy Inc. strayed from its California and Gulf Coast operations long enough to stake a wildcat on the southeastern flank of Utah's Uinta Basin some 39 miles northeast of Green River, Utah. The #2 Moon Canyon, in Section 9-16s-21e in northern Grand County, is scheduled to 10,900 ft., probably to sample Dakota and Cedar Mountain formations. The new well is about a mile northwest of the Moon Ridge Field discovery well, the #31-15 Moon Ridge, which was completed for 9 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Cedar Mountain perforations between 10,188 and 10,240 ft. That well has produced 2.1 billion cu. ft. of gas in total and was producing at an average rate of 98,400 cu. ft. of gas a day in February 2004. The company drilled the #1 Moon Canyon wildcat last year in Section 32 of the same township. The well found gas, but the company did not disclose volumes, IHS Energy said. 4 Headington Oil Co. LP, Dallas, produced 3,655 bbl. of oil and 909 bbl. of water in seven days in April at its #44X-31 Williams discovery in Section 31-24n-55e in Richland County, Mont. The horizontal well produced from an open-hole horizontal Bakken zone from 10,366 to 16,068 ft. It bottomed in Section 8-23n-55e. The new well is about 1.5 miles north-northwest of an inactive Bakken producer in Red Water Field. There, the #8-11X Nevins produced 42,743 bbl. of oil from Bakken between January 1991 and January 2000. It previously had produced from deeper Duperow. 5 Klabzuba Oil & Gas Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, plans two wildcat wells in a nonproducing township nine to 12 miles northeast of Winifred in northern Fergus County, Mont. The #23-10-22-19 Thompson is in Section 23-22n-19e and the #21-2-22-20 Kinkelaar is four miles east in Section 21-22n-20e. Both wells will test Cretaceous Judith River, Eagle, Telegraph Creek, Niobrara and White Specks formations. The Thompson well also will look at Jurassic Morrison. The closest production is some 4.5 miles north and six miles northwest, respectively, of Leroy Field, which has produced more than 12.2 billion cu. ft. of gas from Judith River and Eagle from depths shallower than 2,000 ft. 6 The Houston Exploration Co., Houston, has asked the state of Montana for permits for three wildcats in a remote area eight to 13 miles south and southeast of Big Timber in Sweet Grass County. The wells, which were not named, are in sections 6 and 13 of Township 2s-15e and in Section 34-1s-14e. Plans call for drilling to depths from 3,430 to 4,865 ft. The closest production is between 18 and 25 miles south-southeast of Dean Dome Field, which has produced 105,732 bbl. of oil, 9.9 million cu. ft. of gas and 20,757 bbl. of water from Greybull sand above 3,300 ft., according to IHS Energy. 7 Enid, Okla.-based Continental Resources Inc. plans a dual-lateral horizontal Bakken wildcat about 11 miles east-northeast of Wildrose in Divide County, N.D. The company's #1-21H Ellen will be spudded in Section 21-160n-95w and drilled diagonally across sections 21 and 16 of the same township. The wildcat is 1.5 miles west of Stoneview Field. 8 Tulsa-based Zinke & Trumbo Inc. has staked a wildcat in the northwestern part of nonproducing Ward County, N.D., about 4.5 miles east of Kenmare. The #1-24 Johnsen is in Section 24-160n-88w. The well is more than three miles west-southwest of the abandoned discovery well for Norma Field. That well, the #1 Carstens in Section 16-160n-87w, was completed for 23 bbl. of oil and nine bbl. of water a day from perforations between 5,832-36 ft. in the Mohall member of the Mission Canyon (Madison). 9 Hunt Oil Co., Dallas, has scheduled two 13,500-ft. wildcats to look for Mesaverde gas in an undrilled township in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. The Big Horn County wells are approximately 28 miles southeast of Cody. The #34-15 HOC-USA is in Section 15-50n-97w and the #24-15 HOC-USA is a half-mile west in the same section.. 10 Denver-based Bill Barrett Corp. has asked for a permit to drill for Frontier gas to 19,300 ft. in Waltman Field in the eastern Wind River Basin. The company's #14-18 Bullfrog Unit is in Section 18-36n-86w in western Natrona County. The well is 1.5 miles south of the field discovery well, the #2-7-36-86 Bullfrog Uni. 11 Denver-based Peter K. Roosevelt plans a 2,280-ft. wildcat to Leo (Minnelusa) in Section 17-8s-3e on the Black Hills Uplift, some seven miles northeast of Edgemont in Fall River County, S.D. The #10-17 American Growers will be seven miles northeast of Edgemont Field, which produces from Leo. Roosevelt has a series of wildcats in various stages of staging in the county. 12 True Oil Co. LLC, Casper, Wyo., continued an aggressive wildcat campaign in the Nebraska Panhandle with plans to drill the #31-32 Evertson in Section 31-16n-55w in northern Kimball County. The well is slightly more than a mile north-northwest of the discovery well for Signal Hill Field. That field opener, the #41-5 Kath, was completed in 1981 for 52 bbl. of oil per day from J sand perforations between 6,358-62 ft. It was plugged in 1986 after producing 7,644 bbl. of oil and 52,165 bbl. of water. 13 Tulsa's Samson Resources Co., is seeking a permit to drill an 8,200-ft. Lewis gas well in Moffat County, Colo., about 22 miles west-southwest of Baggs, Wyo. The #10-16 Rattlesnake-State will be drilled in Section 16-12n-95w just south of the Wyoming border. About a mile south-southwest is the #6-21 Little Snake-Federal in Section 21-12n-95w, now abandoned, which produced less than 1.7 million cu. ft. of gas and 306 bbl. of water from Lewis perforations between 8,076 and 8,120 ft. between February and November 2001. 14 ConocoPhillips plans another five wildcat wells on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska west of Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska. The wells are the #1 Noatak in Section 22-12n-5w, Umiat Meridian; the #1 Bounty in Section 17-11n-6w; the #1 Defiance in Section 15-12n-7w; the #1 Kokoda in Section 32-12n-5w; and the #1 Nugget in Section 28-11n-4w. The wells are generally south of Teshekpuk Lake and approximately 14 to 20 miles north and northwest of Total E&P USA Inc.'s Caribou prospect in Section 26-10n-5w. The wildcats are 30 to 50 miles west-northwest of Phillips/Anadarko discoveries made in the petroleum reserve in 2001. One of those wells, the #1-A Spark, tested at 1,550 bbl. of condensate and 26.5 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Alpine. 15 Houston-based Aurora Gas LLC completed a 10-million-cu.-ft.-of-gas-a-day producer near the town of Shirleyville on the west side of the Cook Inlet in southern Alaska. The company's #2 Kaloa, in Section 26-11n-12w, Seward Meridian, produced from four Beluga zones between 3,158 and 3,552 ft. According to Aurora, the well pierced 150 ft. of net pay. The nearest producer is the #1 Albert S. Kaloa Jr. in the same section, completed in 1968 for an initial 28.3 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Beluga. The well sanded up and was shut in on completion.

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