1 Delta Petroleum Corp., Denver, Colo., will drill its second remote wildcat in Columbia River Basin in southern Washington about 11 miles south of Satus in Klickitat County. The #31-23 Gray in Section 31-6n-22e is projected to reach total depth of 15,030 ft. and is about 10 miles northwest of Delta's 15,260-ft. test well, #28-13 McBride in Section 28-5n-23e. Although the well is close to several other wildcats, no completion details have been disclosed. Currently, the nearest production is 152 miles west where Mist Field gas is produced in Oregon.



2 Gasch & Associates, Rancho Cordova, Calif., will drill #15-1 Sohal wildcat for gas in Yuba County in Sacramento Basin. The company has not reported the projected depth of the well or the intended formation. The new wildcat is in Section 15-15n-4e and is 3.5 miles northeast of Linda. The site is 11.4 miles east of the nearest production, where Sutter City Field produces from an unknown formation.



3 Kern County in southern California will host a new wildcat in search of oil and gas. The Nehabidian Exploration Group LLC, Ojai, Calif., will drill #2 Jack Hamar Deep in Section 24-28s-21e. IHS Inc. reports the projected depth and formation of the wildcat are unknown. The projected site is 10 miles south of Lost Hills and the nearest production is three miles southwest in South Belridge Field.



4 Geochem Exploration LLC, Casper, Wyo., plans to drill a remote wildcat in Skull Valley in northwestern Utah about 40 miles west of Salt Lake City. The projected depth is 8,000 to 8,500 ft. and it will evaluate Devonian Guilmette. The #21-1 Skull Valley-Federal is in Section 21-3s-9w in east-central Tooele County. The wildcat is on Sevier Arch within Basin and Range province. In 1994, a dry hole was completed at 6,392 ft. near this prospect, but it did not reach Devonian sediments. The nearest Guilmette oil production is in Nevada's Railroad Valley approximately 180 miles southwest.



5 Piute County in south-central Utah will host a wildcat in a 10-well, two-year Utah Hingeline drilling program designed by Royalite Petroleum Co., Blaine, Wash. The #27-1 Royalite-Federal in Section 27-27s-3w is an 8,500-ft. Navajo test Royalite's first wildcat in the region is five miles south-southwest, which is 1.5 miles east of Maryville. The company currently owns 100% working interest in its leasehold acreage, but plans to carry out the program with industry partners over the next several years. Navajo oil production is 28 to 33 miles north-northeast of the projected wildcats in Covenant Field near Sigurd in Sevier County.



6 Coastal Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Coastal Caribbean Oils & Minerals Ltd., Apalachicola, Fla., plans to drill a remote wildcat in a nonproducing area in northwestern Valley County, Mont. The #7-16 State is projected to reach a total depth of 6,100 ft in Section 16-36n-36e about 27 miles west of Opheim. The well will evaluate Charles, Ratcliffe, Mission, Canyon, Lodgepole and Bakken for gas. The company has drilled three wildcats in the area, generally four to five miles east; however, no activity has been reported for these sites. Shallow Cretaceous gas production occurs in Bowdoin Dome 24 miles west and in Lustre Field some 50 miles southeast.



7 Two remote wildcats are projected for southwestern Montana's Overthrust Belt approximately 32 to 34 miles north-northeast of Bozeman. Bill Barrett Corp., a Denver-based independent, will drill #3-18 Leviathan and #4-6 Leviathan in northwestern Park County. Both wells have a projected depth of 12,000 ft. and are Bill Barrett's second and third wells in this area. The #3-18 Leviathan is in Section 18-4n-8e and #4-6 Leviathan is in Section 6-4n-8e, three miles north. Bill Barrett is targeting Circus prospect near Ringling for a large, four-way closure with three potential pay zones in Cretaceous at 2,200 to 7,000 ft., Mississippian 8,000 to 11,000 ft. and Devonian at 9,000 to 11,500 ft. Further plans involve two exploratory tests and acquisition of 78 sq. mi. of 3-D seismic next year.



8 Continental Resources Inc., Oklahoma City, completed a new Bakken discovery on northern Nesson Anticline eight miles northeast of Wildrose, N.D., in southeastern Divide County. The #1-11H Fenster is in Section 11-160n-96w and produces from two fracture-stimulated, open-hole horizontal laterals in Bakken. The well initially pumped 170 bbl. of 44.2-degree-gravity oil with 160,000 cu. ft. of gas and 128 bbl. of water a day. In the well's first two months online it produced a total of 3,225 bbl. of oil and 8,454 bbl. of water. The Hayland Field discovery is 1.5 miles east and the nearest Bakken discovery is two miles north-northeast at Dolphin Field.

In separate activity, Petroleum Development Corp., Bridgeport, W.Va., completed a tri-lateral producer in BuFrke County, N.D. The exploratory test is six miles west of Bowbells in northwestern North Dakota. The #44-5H Funk in Section 5-161n-90w initially pumped 89 bbl. of 36-degree oil with 20,000 cu. ft. of gas and 76 bbl. of water a day. The three open-hole horizontal laterals extend from the Nesson member of Mission Canyon (Madison). The nearest producer is more than a mile north. There, a tri-lateral horizontal Midale-Nesson producer in Dale-Carter Field produced 130,053 bbl. of oil, 343.3 million cu. ft. of gas and 32,277 bbl. of water from 1998 through March 2007.



9 Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. (ConocoPhillips), Houston, completed a horizontal wildcat as a Bakken discovery 12 miles north-northwest of Killdeer in Dunn County in western North Dakota. The #14-24H Brandvik is in Section 24-147n-96w. Two horizontal laterals in Bakken were drilled, but no further completion details are available. The wildcat is more than a mile east of Oakdale Field where oil was produced from Madison and Duperow. The Corral Creek Field, a Duperow/Red River pool, is 1.5 miles east. Cedar Coulee Field, 2.5 miles northwest, is the nearest Bakken production. There, #1-16H Wiser-Gull-State in Section 16-147n-96w produced 11,238 bbl. of oil and 3.7 million cu. ft. of gas from its completion in 1991 through March.



10 Continental Resources will drill a horizontal exploratory test to target Red River in Harding County, S.D., about 23 miles north-northeast of Buffalo. The #1-3H Fowler will be drilled in Section 3-22n-6e northeastward to total depth of 13,400 ft. at a bottom-hole location in the same section. The true vertical depth of the Red River B porosity zone is anticipated at 8,880 ft. The proposed drill site is one mile east-northeast of the easternmost producer, Pete's Creek Field. There, C-#9H Johnson in Section 9-22n-6e produced a total of 62,136 bbl. of oil, 30.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 33,476 bbl. of water after its completion two years ago. The N-#4H Johnson in Section 4-22n-6e, one mile west, was completed as a horizontal Red River producer. Although no completion records have been released, the well has produced 23,922 bbl. of oil, 10.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 6,745 bbl. of water its first six months late 2006 through early 2007, IHS Inc. reports



11 A new wildcat has been staked in the Powder River Basin by Daube Co., Ardmore, Okla. The projected site is 3.5 miles southeast of Gillette in northeastern Wyoming. The #4-4 Pickrel is in Section 4-49n-71w, east-central Campbell County and will target Minnelusa at a projected depth of about 10,000 ft. Two Minnelusa oil pools are near the new site. AG Farm Field is 1.5 miles northwest and has, since 1986, produced 1.4 million bbl. of oil and 4.1 million bbl. of water. Olsen Field, 1.5 miles southeast, has produced 809,233 bbl. of oil and 967,956 bbl. of water since its opening in 1965.



12 Bill Barrett Corp. plans to drill a 16,410-ft. deep wildcat in southeastern Wind River Basin 40 miles west of Casper, Wyo. The #22-12 Stone Cabin Unit, in Section 12-34n-87w in western Natrona County, will target Muddy. The current site is 1.5 miles northeast of #1 Stone Cabin Unit discovery in Section 11-34n-87w. Wallace Creek Field is more than a mile southwest.



13 A Niobrara gas drilling program is planned for the Denver Julesburg Basin. PRB Energy Inc., Denver, will carry out the program, of about 220 wells over the next year and a half, through its subsidiary, PRB Oil & Gas Inc. The program will initially focus on Lone Duck Field in northeastern Phillips County, Colo., with plans for 70 shallow Niobrara gas wells this year and an additional 150 wells in 2008. To date, PRB has evaluated 3-D seismic on the first 30,000 acres of the initial 330,000 net acres acquired in northeastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska and has identified more than 170 well locations.

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