1 Brooks Range Petroleum Corp., Anchorage, plans to drill two exploratory tests on its Tofkat prospect about five miles east of Nuiqsut on Alaska’s North Slope. Brooks Range originally named the program Titania, but decided to change the name to avoid confusion with ConocoPhillips’ Titania exploration project. The #1 Tofkat and a second directional test will be drilled this winter from an ice pad in Section 11-10n-5e, Umiat Meridian, east of the Colville River. The #1 Tofkat site is six miles southeast of two wells drilled in the Colville River Unit—#1 Nanuk and #2 Nanuk—and four miles west of #1 Oberon in Section 9-10n-6e. The latter exploratory well was completed in early 2003 as a 7,580-ft. dry hole.

2 Escopeta Oil Co. LLC, Houston, will drill #1 North Alexander on its North Alexander prospect on Alaska’s Cook Inlet about 13 miles north of Beluga. The wildcat’s targets are Beluga and Upper Tyonek gas zones. The 8,500-ft. well is on a 22,882-acre prospect within the Susitna Flats State Game Refuge. Existing wells—#1-A Lewis River and #1 Isla Grande—are some six miles southwest and 2.5 miles southeast, respectively. Escopeta’s North Alexander Unit includes leases in 15n-7w and 15n-8w, Seward Meridian.

3 Two wildcats are slated for California’s Glenn County. Carpinteria, Calif.-based Venoco Inc. will drill #7 Bounde Creek in Section 35-19n-2w about 9.1 miles southeast of Willows and about 0.5 mile southwest of Kione production in Willows-Beehive Field.

Ojai, Calif.-based Nahabedian Exploration Group LLC will drill #2-8 Worthington in Section 8-21n-4w some nine miles southwest of Orland, Calif. Nearest production is 2.3 miles southwest in abandoned one-well Walker Creek Field, which produced primarily from Eocene.

4 Rosetta Resources Operating LP, Denver, will drill #9 Upsham in Section 25-3n-2e about 4.2 miles northwest of Bethel Island in Sacramento County, Calif. The wildcat will target an unknown formation about 0.66 mile south of Rio Vista Field, which produces from Hamilton.

5 Golden Eagle Exploration LLC, Denver, staked a 16,000-ft wildcat projected to reach Cambrian on the northeastern flank of the Paradox Basin, about 18 miles northeast of Moab, Utah. The #2 Paradox Basin is in Section 21-23s-23e, southeastern Grand County. It is almost one mile south-southwest Golden Eagle’s earlier well, #1 Paradox Basin, which is also the only other well drilled in the township. Originally set up as a 14,500-ft. Cambrian test, Golden Eagle has disclosed no other details on this well. Both projects are 11 to 12 miles south-southwest of the Greater Cisco area, which produces gas from Cretaceous and Jurassic zones. Cane Creek, which produces from Paradox-Pennsylvanian, is 24 to 25 miles southwest.

6 CrownQuest Operating LLC, Midland, Texas, plans to drill 6,375-ft. #1-17 Sun Devil-Federal in the Paradox Basin about 10 miles east-southeast of Blanding in southeastern Utah in Section 17-37s-24e, San Juan County. The wildcat will target the Ismay and Desert Creek members of Paradox (Pennsylvanian). It is 1.25 miles southeast of the Alkali Point Field discovery, where #1 Shane-Federal produced 184.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 348 bbl. of condensate from Ismay between September 1989 and May 2007. Deadman Canyon Field, which also produces from Ismay, is almost 1.5 miles south, reports IHS Inc.

7 Nadel & Gussman Rockies LLC, Tulsa, plans a Red River wildcat in southeastern Montana about 20 miles east of Ekalaka. It plans to drill the spacing unit in a nonproducing township covering Section 34-2n-61e in southeastern Fallon County. The site is about seven miles north-northwest of Repeat Field, which is a Red River pool revived by the company in northeastern Carter County. The company’s #1 Hat Creek-Federal recovered 14 bbl. of oil an hour during flow tests at an offset to abandoned Repeat Field, which produced 546,660 bbl. of oil, 4.9 million cu. ft. of gas and 1.7 million bbl. of water from Red River between March 1956 and May 1993.

8 Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, plans two wildcats to drill below 12,000 ft. on the southwestern Overthrust Belt about 34 to 35 miles north-northeast of Bozeman, Mont. It will drill the units in lots 1 through 12 and 13 through 18 of Section 6-4n-8e in northwestern Park County. The wildcats target Mississippian zones.

9 Samson Resources Co., Tulsa, completed an offset to the Ambrose Field-Bakken pool discovery in northern Divide County, N.D. The well initially pumped 302 bbl. of oil with 277,000 cu. ft. of gas and 52 bbl. of water a day. The #30-163-98H Hanson is in Section 30-163n-98w, three miles south of Ambrose. It produced 10,805 bbl. of oil, 4.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 2,326 bbl. of water in its first four months online.

10 Petro-Hunt LLC, Dallas, completed a horizontal wildcat in northwestern North Dakota about 3.5 miles north-northwest of Alamo. The #4B-2-2H Fursberg initially pumped 96 bbl. of 39.8-gravity oil with 88,000 cu. ft. of gas and 25 bbl. of water a day. The well is in Section 4-159n-99w in northern Williams County, and is producing from a horizontal lateral in Bakken/Sanish extending from 9,765 to 15,291 ft. This discovery marks the first production in the township, which is about four miles east-northeast of Green Lake Field, a Mission Canyon (Madison) oil pool.

11 Fidelity Exploration & Production Co., Denver, plans three wildcats to target gas in the Dakota sand on the west end of the Sioux Uplift in west-central South Dakota about nine to 15 miles west and north of Pierre, reports IHS Inc. It will drill #1-35 Bad River Ranch in Section 35-5n-28e, eastern Stanley County, to 1,865 ft.; #1-34 Stoeser Farms in Section 34-5n-29e, eastern Stanley County, to 1,800 ft.; and #1-13 McCarty Farms in Section 13-112n-79w, northwestern Hughes County, to 1,700 ft. The program will be carried out in a nonproducing area about 60 to 68 miles southeast of Lantry Field, which is an isolated and abandoned Red River pool in western Dewey County that produced 150,000 bbl. of oil and 6.3 million bbl. of water. West Short Pine Hills Field produces gas from Cretaceous zones about 175 miles west-northwest.

12 Petrogulf Corp., Denver, was granted a drilling permit for #41-30 Hahn, a 7,352-ft. wildcat on the eastern flank of the Powder River Basin about 26 miles northeast of Gillette, Wyo. The site is in Section 30-53n-68w, western Crook County, and will evaluate Minnelusa oil zones. It is one mile southwest of JB Field and 1.5 miles northeast of M-D North Field, both of which have produced from Minnelusa. Florida Field, a Muddy oil reservoir, is 1.5 miles north-northwest.

13 Shell Rocky Mountain Production LLC completed two more high-volume producers on the Pinedale Anticline in southwestern Wyoming, about 14 miles south-southeast of Pinedale. The #11b-11D Jensen in Section 11-31n-109w, Sublette County, flowed 15.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 103 bbl. of condensate and 3,122 bbl. of water a day from Lance between 7,226 and 11,262 ft. and Mesaverde between 11,386 and 13,054 ft. The company completed #7b-11D Jensen from the same drillpad, which flowed 15.5 million cu. ft. of gas, 107 bbl. of condensate and 2,359 bbl. of water a day, also from Lance and Mesaverde.

14 R.L. Hrbek, Merino, Colo., completed a D sand discovery two miles north of Oshkosh in Garden County, Nebraska. The #1 Dormann flowed 2.5 million cu. ft. of gas a day with no fluids. The site is in Section 13-17n-44w, and was tested through perforations in D sand at 3,213-14 ft. Abandoned McCord Field is 1.5 miles south-southwest, which produced 81,256 bbl. of oil and nearly 2.4 million bbl. of water between June 1956 and May 1985. Richards Field produces from D sand about 3.5 miles east-southeast.

15 Kaler Oil Co., Gainesville, Texas, completed two Cambridge Arch exploratory tests about 15 miles north-northwest of Benkelman, Neb. The #2-5 Stamm, in Section 5-3n-38w, Dundy County, pumped 130 bbl. of oil and 28 bbl. of water a day from two Lansing-Kansas City intervals at 4,530-34 ft. and at 4,555-58 ft. Total depth is 4,641 ft. The well is 0.5 mile northwest of the northernmost producer to date in Hoover field, which has produced 316,250 bbl. of oil and 1.9 million bbl. of water from Lansing-Kansas City since its discovery in 1988.

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