Alta Mesa Receives Drilling Permit For Boise Basin Test

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United States

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#1-20 Smoke Ranch
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Houston-based Alta Mesa Services, according to IHS Markit, has been granted a drilling permit for a 4,000-ft exploratory test in the Boise Basin. No objectives were disclosed for the well, #1-20 Smoke Ranch, which will be in Section 20-8n-4w of Payette County, Idaho. The venture is four miles southwest of Willow Field and about four miles northwest of Hamilton Field – both gas pools discovered in 2010 by Bridge Resources Corp. and Paramax Resources Ltd. Willow and Hamilton are the first commercial discoveries of oil and gas in Idaho. The gross gas-in-place contingent resource estimates range from 88 Bcf to 235 Bcf.