1 Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, presented Halliburton Energy Services Group with a multimillion-dollar contract to handle drilling services at the operator's Oooguruk Field on the Colville River Delta in Section 11-13n-7e, Umiat Meridian, on the North Slope of Alaska. Services include directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, drilling fluids management, cementing, mud logging and cuttings injection services. Oooguruk is an island development with first development drilling scheduled for the summer of 2007. Pioneer already has started construction of staging and pig-launching pads and the installation of 5.7 miles of flowlines for the water-injection system. Pioneer discovered the field in 2003 with its #1 Ivik well, which tested at a sustained rate of 1,300 bbl. of oil per day from Jurassic sand. Plans call for about 40 horizontal wells to develop up to 90 million bbl. of oil.



2 Continuing with a potentially commercial deep gas play, EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Denver, plans its third wildcat in south-central Washington. The company's #7-24 Brown is scheduled to 14,000 ft. in Section 24-16n-23e, about 33 miles northeast of Yakima in Grant County. The well will have to be drilled through some 9,000 ft. of basalt to reach its target, and take about a year. The company is drilling #1 Anderville Farms about 11 miles southeast. It hasn't released any details on that test but it should be drilling below 10,000 ft. The company drilled #1 Anderson 27 miles south-southwest of #7-24 Brown. That well went to 7,000 ft. and is waiting for the rig now on the Anderson well to continue drilling to 14,000 ft., according to IHS Inc.



3 Three coalbed-methane wells are on the drawing board for Methane Energy Corp. in Coos County, Ore. The Maple Valley, Wash., company will drill #1 Mec Southport in Section 22-26s-13w to 1,350 ft. about 3.6 miles south of Bunker Hill and 107 miles southwest of Lebonon Prospect Field, a Eugene formation pool. The #1 Mec Goat Creek is scheduled to 2,500 ft. in Section 35 of the same township and range. That well is 5.7 miles south of Bunker Hill. The company will drill its #1 Mec Fat Elk to 3,950 ft. in Section 4-28s-13w. This test is 3.3 miles west of the town of Coquille and 115 miles southwest of Lebonon Prospect Field.



4 Longbow LLC, Bakersfield, Calif., will drill #1 Archer-Knaggs Ranch to an unrevealed depth in search of natural gas in Section 26-11n-3e in Yolo County, Calif. The wildcat will be 10 miles northwest of Rio Linda and less than a mile southeast of Freemont Landing Field, which produces from Starkey.



5 Double Eagle Petroleum Co., Casper, Wyo., is drilling its #1 Table Top Unit to 16,000 ft. on the northeastern Utah portion of the Overthrust Belt. The wildcat is about 30 miles south of Evanston, Wyo., in Section 16-1n-10e in Summit County, Utah, on the company's Christmas Meadows prospect, a large anticlinal closure on the Uinta Mountain front.

In separate activity, Delta Petroleum Corp. is making plans to drill its #1 Joseph prospect in the Utah Hingeline area. The Denver-based company's site is in Section 24-25s-4w, southeast of Joseph and approximately 19 miles southwest of Wolverine Gas & Oil Co.'s Covenant Field, a Navajo oil accumulation being developed near the town of Sigurd. In the October issue, it was incorrectly reported that Double Eagle was operator of #1 Joseph.



6 A Paradox Basin wildcat discovery flowed gas at an initial rate of 2.96 million cu. ft. a day with 20 bbl. of condensate and two bbl. of water. EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. drilled the well about 28 miles southeast of Moab in Section 36-29s-24e in northeastern San Juan County, Utah. The well produced from La Sal shale from 6,107-19 ft. with 1,367 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The directional well reached a total measured depth of 7,260 ft. Some 18 months ago, EnCana drilled the nearest producer, #35-24 Big Indian, a mile east-northeast. That discovery tested 2.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Honaker Trail and Ismay.



7 FX Drilling Co., Shelby, Mont., will drill a nonproducing area of Chouteau County about nine to 12 miles west of Fort Benton in northwestern Montana in search of oil from the Jurassic Swift. The company's #23-26 Castor Farm wildcat is in Section 26-24n-6e and #23-17 Triangle N Farms is in Section 17-24n-7e, some 35 miles northeast, IHS Inc. reports. Both are scheduled to 2,200 ft.



8 Enid, Okla.-based Continental Resources LLC completed a Bakken well for 338 bbl. of oil, 113,000 cu. ft. of gas and 259 bbl. of water a day from dual laterals. The #1-34H Marlys is in Section 34-23n-56e about 16 miles west of Sidney in Richland County, Mont. The company drilled the first lateral from 10,687 to 15,139 ft. west into Section 33 and the second from 10,097 to 14,664 ft. east of the vertical wellbore. The producer is a mile south of another Continental well, #1-22H Thomas, which tested for 722 bbl. of oil, 250,000 cu. ft. of gas and 40 bbl. of water a day.



9 Sam Gary Jr. & Associates Inc., Denver, completed a discovery on the White Earth Syncline east of the Nesson Anticline in Mountrail County, N.D. The #4-1H Manitou, in Section 5-155n-94w, pumped 71 bbl. of oil a day from a lateral in the Middle Bakken from 10,670 to 15,844 ft. Gary estimates original oil in place at 9.73 million bbl. per 640 acres.



10 Petroleum Development Corp., Bridgeport, W.Va., completed a Bakken oil discovery 21 miles south of Watford City in southeastern McKenzie County, N.D. The company didn't release details about its #31-1H Carmona in Section 1-146n-99w, but asked for orders establishing temporary spacing and field limits for the wildcat.



11 Discovery wells marked success in a drilling program for Spyglass Cedar Creek LP in Harding County, S.D. The company has set production casing in #10-27 State in Section 27-19n-4e, proposed to Minnelusa to 6,200 ft., and at its #13-24R Price in Section 24 of the same township, proposed to Minnelusa at 5,700 ft. The company set pipe after seeing oil and gas shows in several Cretaceous and Paleozoic intervals. Spyglass has started drilling its third well, #4-16 State, in Section 16 of the township.



12 Denver-based Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. plans two wildcats in the Vermillion Basin in Sweetwater County, southern Wyoming, both aimed at the Baxter Shale and the Frontier and Dakota sands. The #4-36 North Trail-State is in Section 36-14n-100w and is scheduled to 14,625 ft. Next in line is the company's #1-8 Chicken Ranch Unit in Section 8 of the same township, proposed to 14,800 ft.



13 Central Operating Inc., Denver, discovered gas in the D Sand about eight miles south of Potter in southwestern Cheyenne County, Neb. The #1 Terman, in Section 7-13n-52w in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, opened Shelda East Field. It produced 1.7 million cu. ft. of gas in May and 2.33 million cu. ft. of gas the following month, according to an IHS Inc. report. The nearest production is 1.5 miles north in abandoned Larson Ranch Field, which produced from both D and J sands.



14 A new Mesaverde gas area came to light when Antero Resources Corp. drilled several wells within 2.5 miles east of Rifle in Garfield County, western Colorado. The Denver company drilled the wells in Section 12-6s-93w and recovered gas from Williams Fork, Cameo, Cozzette and Corcoran members of the Mesaverde. The site is about two miles north of Wasatch and Mesaverde production in prolific Mamm Creek Field. The wells north of the Colorado River are #E1 North Bank that flowed at 1.22 million cu. ft. of gas and 1,085 bbl. of water a day, and #A1 North Bank, which flowed at 2 million cu. ft. of gas and 360 bbl. of water a day. South of the river, #C1 Snyder tested at 724,000 cu. ft. of gas and 817 bbl. of water a day.



15 Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, will drill two remote wildcats in southwestern Dolores County, Colo. Both will drill to Hermosa and Ismay. The company permitted #1 Rabbit Creek-Federal in Section 22-42n-16w, more than seven miles southwest of Cocklebur Draw Field where the discovery well flowed 4.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 82 bbl. of water a day from fractured Hermosa. The other well is #1 Johnson-Alkali Canyon in Section 13-39n-18w, some seven miles northeast of the opener for Cahone Field. That well, #1 Lanier Farmers, tested for 62 bbl. of oil and 100,000 cu. ft. of gas a day on pump from fractured Honaker Trail.



16 A proposed 7,500-ft. wildcat will look for Mancos oil on the southeastern flank of the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico. Houston-based Westerly Exploration Inc. will drill #34 Romero-Federal in Section 34-23n-1w, northwestern Sandoval County, about 10 miles north of the town of Cuba.

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