International Highlights
?ExxonMobil Corp. is buying into Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd.’s tight-gas play in Hungary’s Mako Trough. The major will pay Falcon $25 million for a two-thirds interest in 75% of ...
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May 7, 2008
Western U.S.
?1 Operator Savant Alaska LLC, a unit of Denver-based Savant Resources LLC, spudded its #1 Kupcake on Alaska’s North Slope. The 11,000-ft. test targets Kemik sand in Section 29-11n-18e, Umiat ...
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May 7, 2008
Midcontinent & Permian Basin
?1 The #1-13H Kamalmaz was completed as a horizontal Fayetteville shale discovery in Arkansas’ Van Buren County. Storm Cat USA Operating Corp., Denver, drilled the wildcat to total depth of ...
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May 7, 2008
Gulf Coast
?1 The #1 Samuel A. Lipsey, a workover permitted by Tyler, Texas-based Southwest Operating Inc., is active in Anderson County (RRC 6), Texas. The 6,300-ft. venture is in Box W. ...
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May 7, 2008
Eastern U.S.
1 Traverse City, Mich.-based West Bay Exploration Co. completed #1-6 State-Livonia & West Bay in Section 6-1s-9e, Livonia Township, in northern Wayne County, Mich., within the Livonia city limits. The ...
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May 7, 2008
Gulf Coast
1 A 1,500-ft. wildcat has been scheduled by Blue River Inc. in the Ouachita Fold Belt in Ellis County (RRC 5), Texas. The site is in the Alfred Riley Survey, ...
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April 21, 2008
International Highlights
Chevron Corp. affiliate Tengizchevroil LLP has started up the first phase of an expansion at Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan. The addition of 90,000 barrels a day brings total capacity to ...
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April 21, 2008
Western U.S.
1 Italy-based ENI started developing its first operated project in Alaska. Nikaitchuq Field is offshore the North Slope in an average water depth of 10 ft. The company purchased the ...
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April 21, 2008
Midcontinent & Permian Basin
1 A 4,800-ft. Hugoton Embayment wildcat has been staked by Denver, Colo. independent FIML Natural Resources LLC in Scott County, Kan., about eight miles southeast of Scott City. The #7B-18-1931 ...
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April 21, 2008
Eastern U.S.
1 An 11,300-ft. Prairie du Chien test has been slated for the northern part of Michigan, eight miles northeast of Roscommon in Crawford County. Traverse City, Mich.-based Savoy Energy LP ...
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April 21, 2008
Eastern U.S.
1 A Lewis sand wildcat has been scheduled by Mantachie, Miss.-based Horton Enterprises Inc. in Itawamba County, Miss. The 1,500-ft. #1 Horton-Bean is in Section 13-9s-8e north of Fulton. Mississippian ...
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March 7, 2008
Gulf Coast
1 A Travis Peak wildcat has been scheduled for southeastern Freestone County (RRC 5), Texas, about a mile northwest of the Leon County line. Tulsa, Okla.-based Unit Petroleum Co. will ...
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March 7, 2008
Midcontinent & Permian Basin
1 Two Lansing-Kansas City discoveries have been made in southwestern Decatur County, Kan., by Murfin Drilling Co. Inc. The Wichita operator completed #1-19 Green-O’Brien and #1-26 Mumm Brothers based on ...
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March 7, 2008
Western U.S.
1 Two operators have announced plans to drill on Alaska’s North Slope. Italian firm ENI’s U.S. unit, ENI Petroleum Co. Inc., has staked #3 Maggiore in Section 5-8n-11e, about 23.9 ...
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March 7, 2008
International Highlights
Calgary-based explorer Canadian Superior Energy Inc. has found two prolific reservoirs in its Victory well on Intrepid Block 5(c) offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The well, which lies 60 miles off ...
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March 7, 2008
WESTERN U.S.
1 Cimarex Energy Co., Denver, will drill #1-15 Brew 102 in Section 15-7s-12e in California’s Merced County about 3.3 miles southwest of Atwater. Nearest production is from Zilch sand in ...
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February 14, 2008
International Highlights
British Columbia’s final land sale of 2007 pushed the Canadian province’s annual total to C$1.05 billion, smashing the previous record of C$643 million set in 2003. The December 12 sale ...
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February 14, 2008
GULF COAST
1 Range Production Co., Fort Worth, completed a remote horizontal Glen Rose discovery in the south-central portion of Leon County (RRC 5), Texas. The #2H Simms is in the Charles ...
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February 14, 2008
MIDCONTINENT & PERMIAN BASIN
1 Ohio Kentucky Oil Corp., Lexington, Ky., completed a discovery on the Central Kansas Uplift about 4.5 miles northwest of WaKeeney, Kan., in northern Trego County. The #3 Galen Geyer ...
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February 14, 2008
eastern U.S.
1 Shuler Drilling Co. Inc., El Dorado, Ark., will drill to Smackover at 8,600 ft. at #1 Word remote wildcat in southeastern Sunflower County in northern Mississippi. The county has ...
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February 14, 2008
