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Wildcatting is Back: The New Lower 48 Oil Plays

Operators wanting to grow oil inventory organically are finding promising potential as modern drilling and completion costs have dropped while adding inventory via M&A is increasingly costly.

Utica Oil: Encino Energy’s Liquids Wells Top the Charts in Ohio

Encino Energy’s first-quarter wells took the top five spots in Ohio as the company’s liquids output accounted for more than half of the state’s 7.23 MMbbl first-quarter total.

Aethon’s Screamer Well Joins Comstock’s Deep-Bossier Wildcatting

Aethon Energy’s 36.9 MMcf/d Currie #2H north of Houston makes for a third well revealed in the Bossier prospect north of Houston that one longtime Texas wildcatter calls a “big boy play.”

Updated: Top 12 IP Wells in the Permian Basin

June 2021: Brinninstool West Field-Wolfcamp Well: 5,453 bbl of Oil, 9.779 MMcf of Gas per Day

Table: Top 12 IP Wells in Three Forks

May 2021: Oasis Petroleum Announces Results from Two Williston Basin-Banks Field Wells

Top 12 IP Wells in Cotton Valley

July 2018: Two high-volume completions by Range Resources in Lincoln Parish, La.

Top 12 IP Wells in the Barnett Combo Play

March 2021: TEP Barnett Completes Two Newark East Field-Barnett Shale Wells in Texas’ Tarrant County

Top 12 IP Wells in Utica Shale

October 2021: EAP Ohio Completes Utica Venture Flowing 33.29 MMcf of Gas, 2,221 bbl of Oil per Day

Updated: Top 12 I.P. Wells in Granite Wash

February 2012: Linn Energy completion flows 31.42 MMcfe per day

Updated: Top 12 IP Wells in Haynesville Shale

July 2021: Indigo Minerals Completes Two High-volume Haynesville Wells in Sabine Parish, La.