1 ConocoPhillips, Houston, plans a remote wildcat on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The #1 Noatak will be drilled in Section 22-12n-5w, Umiat Meridian, about 50 miles west-northwest of Nuiqsut and 10 to 12 miles south-southeast of Teshekpuk Lake. The well also is about 50 miles west-northwest of discoveries made by the company and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in 2001; #1 Spark, #1A Spark, #C Moose's Tooth, #1 Lookout, #A Rendezvous and #3 Rendezvous, according to IHS Inc.



2 Forest Oil Corp., Denver, and Escopeta Oil Co. LLC, Houston, have each asked for permission to establish three exploratory units in southern Alaska near Cook Inlet. Forest seeks to create the Corsair Unit in the Upper Cook Inlet east of the village of Tyonek and some 12 miles southwest of the nearest production from North Cook Inlet Field. Escopeta wants to create Kitchen Unit in Cook Inlet and north of the East Foreland on the Kenai Peninsula, and North Alexander Unit on the Susitna Flats state game refuge some 26 miles northwest of Anchorage.



3 Pacific Coast Exploration LLC, Yuba City, Calif., will look for oil with a wildcat in Kern County, Calif., with its #1-24 Oil Hill in Section 24-28s-19e. The well is 14.6 miles southwest of the town of Lost Hills and 1.2 miles west of Carneros Creek Field, a Button Bed producer.



4 Two remote wildcats, separated by about 30 miles, are scheduled this spring in White Pine County in eastern Nevada by Plains Exploration & Production Co., Houston. It will drill #27-1 Pluto-Federal in Section 27-18n-61e in the east-central part of the county about 13 miles northwest of the town of Ely. Some 30 miles west, Plains plans #21-1 Pancake-Federal in Section 21-18n-56e in the west-central part of the county. These wells will mark the first tests in both counties. The nearest production is between 60 and 80 miles southeast of Blackburn Field in Pine Valley.



5 El Paso Production Oil & Gas Co., Houston, completed a high-volume producer in Altamont-Bluebell Field in Duchesne County, Utah. The #3-29B4 Katherine, five miles north of Duchesne in Section 29-2s-4w in the Uinta Basin, tested for 1,021 bbl. of oil, 1.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 440 bbl. of water a day from fractured Wasatch perforations between 11,389 and 11,921 ft. The company ran tests through an 18/64-in. choke with 2,275 psi of casing pressure.



6 An exploratory program involves nine 11,500-ft. wildcats to Mancos some 22 to 23 miles south-southeast of Duchesne in Duchesne County, Utah. Petro-Canada Resources (USA) Inc., Calgary, will drill all the wells in Township 11s-14e. Wells include #22-21, #22-13 and #22-44 Rye Patch-Federal, all in Section 22; #23-11 and #23-32 Rye Patch-Federal, both in Section 23; and #24-21, #24-31, #24-43 and #24-44 Rye Patch Federal, all in Section 24. The program is three to five miles west of Gate Canyon Field, a two-well Wasatch-Mesaverde field in which the discovery well showed an initial potential of 1.08 million cu. ft. of gas and 252 bbl. of water a day.



7 Wildcats were staked in the northern Paradox Basin near Green River in western Grand County, Utah, by Delta Petroleum Corp., Denver, and Samson Resources Co., Tulsa, Okla. Delta plans three exploratory wells, according to IHS Inc. The #35-12 Greentown-Federal in Section 35-21s-16e will go to 9,825 ft. The #28-11 Samson-Federal in Section 28-22s-17e is scheduled to 9,975 ft., and #33-12 Greentown-Federal in Section 28-22s-17e is planned to 9,215 ft. The #35-12 well is a mile west of Delta's #36-11 Greentown-State discovery that flowed at more than 12 million cu. ft. of gas equivalent a day from Paradox zones. Samson's #12-1 Power Line is in Section 12-23s-18e, about eight miles east of Salt Wash Field.



8 Marathon Oil Co., Houston, will drill a pair of horizontal exploration wells to test Bakken between four and 10 miles north-northwest of Fairview in northeastern Richland County in northeastern Montana. The company proposed one spacing unit including sections 20 and 29 in Township 26n-59e and another in sections 16 and 21 of partial Township 25n-59e. The unit in 26n-59e is immediately north of Cattails Field, a Ratcliffe (Madison) pool. The horizontal discovery well in that field tested for 70 bbl. of oil and 178 bbl. of water a day on pump. The unit in Township 25n-59e includes an abandoned vertical Ratcliffe producer. The only Bakken producer in the area is a recompletion in Nohly Field that produced 44 bbl. of oil and 25,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from a vertical Bakken section.



9 A trilateral horizontal well will look for Bakken production beneath the Yellowstone River in southeastern Richland County, Mont., about five miles south of Sidney. Headington Oil Co. LP, Dallas, will drill its #44X-29 Yellowstone in Section 29-22n-59e. One lateral will be drilled north-northwest to 14,947 ft., the second will reach northwestward to 20,496 ft. below Section 30 and the third will reach west to 19,715 ft., also under Section 30.



10 Petro-Hunt LLC, Dallas, registered a producer at a horizontal Bakken test on the Nesson Anticline about 26 miles northeast of Watford City, N.D. The company's #2D-3-1H USA, in Section 2-153n-95w in northeastern McKenzie County, produces from a single lateral from 10,265 to 13,689 ft. measured depth. The 3,400-ft. lateral extends northwest, IHS Inc. reports. Although test figures weren't available, Charlson Field, about a mile east, contains the nearest Bakken production at a vertical well that tested for 93 bbl. of oil and 99,000 cu. ft. of gas a day.



11 A horizontal wildcat will reach for Bakken about 28 miles north-northeast of Medora in northern Billings County, N.D. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Texas, is planning #34-4H Ice Caves-Federal in Section 4-144n-100w about 2.5 miles east and a little north of the discovery well for Ice Caves Field. There, #1 Northrup tested for 30 bbl. of oil and 50,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from a vertical Bakken interval between 10,733 and 10,834 ft. when it was completed in 1986. Anadarko previously staked #4-8 Ice Caves-Federal in Section 8 of the same township.



12 A pair of remote wildcats by Staghorn Energy LLC, Tulsa, Okla., will test for hydrocarbons in two nonproducing counties in south-central North Dakota. The #1-32 Welch is planned for Section 32-138n-78w in southern Burleigh County, nine miles east-southeast of Bismarck, and #1-15 Tschoski is staked about 23 miles south-southeast in northwestern Emmons County. The closest production was about 80 miles west in the abandoned Richardton Field in Stark County. Dry holes have been drilled near #1-32 Welch but the nearest test to #1-15 Tschoski was a dry hole 15 miles north.



13 Long Beach, Calif.-based Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. is drilling the first wildcat on the Pacific Creek prospect in Wyoming's Green River Basin. The #15-18 Pacific-Paladin is in Section 18-27n-103w in southeastern Sublette County. The 16,000-ft. well, which targets the Rock Spring interval of Mesaverde, is about 26 miles east-southeast of production from Lance and Mesaverde in Jonah Field, according to IHS Inc.



14 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Texas, is setting pipe to test for a discovery at #31-13 Mordred in the Green River Basin in Section 31-26n-108w some 23 miles east-southeast of LaBarge in northwestern Sweetwater County, Wyo. It was drilled to Lance and is more than six miles south of a Lance gas discovery completed in 2004.



15 Denver-based West Hawk Energy (USA) LLC plans its second wildcat to look at the Williams Fork, Cameo, Cozzette and Corcoran intervals of Mesaverde and the A and B zones of Mancos in a Piceance Basin test. The #499-14-83 Figure Four Ranch is in Section 14-4s-99w in southern Rio Blanco County, about 28 miles northwest of the town of Parachute in western Colorado.

The nearest production is two miles south-southwest at a Cameo gas discovery that flowed 173,000 cu. ft. of gas and 12 bbl. of water a day.



16 Mountain Petroleum Corp., Denver, will drill a wildcat near the oldest oil field in the Rockies. The #32-23 Slanovich, in Section 23-19s-70w in southeastern Fremont County, Colo., will look for Lower Cretaceous Dakota J Sand to 7,000 ft., IHS Inc. reports. The well is more than two miles south of the region's oldest field, Florence-Canon City, which produced from Upper Cretaceous Pierre shale shallower than 2,000 ft. There is no J Sand production in the area.

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