1 Blue Ridge Group Inc., Bowling Green, Ky., will drill the #1 Lake Palestine wildcat about two miles southwest of Chandler, in Henderson County, Texas (RRC 5). The Theodore J. Dorsett Survey, A-195, is scheduled to 8,000 ft. The nearest production comes from the #1 J.M. Boyd about a mile south-southwest. That 1974 well in Chandler Southwest Field produced 79,534 bbl. of oil, 135.77 million cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 4,675 bbl. of water through May 2004 from Travis Peak, according to IHS Energy. 2 Cape Operating Inc., Kilgore, Texas, has scheduled a wildcat about five miles southwest of Marshall in southwestern Harrison County, Texas (RRC 6). The company's #1 Luther Anderson, in F.B. Scott Survey, A-659, is scheduled to 10,500 ft. Although shallower production comes from the Crane formation below 6,700 ft. within a mile of the proposed test, production from a comparable depth is nearly a mile east at the #1 V.G. Rogers Gas Unit. That Woodlawn Southwest Field well has produced 399.8 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,951 bbl. of condensate and 31,394 bbl. of water from Cotton Valley; it was later recompleted in the Page. 3 Boulder, Colo., independent Ellora Operating LP plans a horizontal wildcat midway between Duncan Cemetary and Huxley fields in southern Shelby County, Texas (RRC 6). The #2H W.I. Davis, in James B. Tucker Survey, A-721, is projected to 9,000 ft. with a bottomhole location a mile northeast in the same survey. The well is a northwest offset to the company's lookalike #1H well drilled last fall. No results have been reported for that well, according to IHS Energy. The nearest well is the #1 Fibreboard in Duncan Cemetery Field, a vertical well that produced 25.17 million cu. ft. of gas, 20 bbl. of condensate and 4,556 bbl. of water from James Lime between 6,629 and 6,725 ft. during its 18 months online. 4 Vision Operating Co., Houston, brought in a Woodbine discovery in central Tyler County, Texas, (RRC 3) for 5.68 million cu. ft. of gas, 240 bbl. of condensate and 62 bbl. of water a day from Woodbine. The company's #2 Louisiana Pacific Unit #1 produced through three sets of perforations between 14,549 and 14,627 ft. through a 13/64-in. choke with 9,640 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The Section 2, Block 3, G&BN Co. Survey, A-333, well is about 3.5 miles northeast of the town of Hillister. The nearest Woodbine producer is nearly 3.75 miles northwest in the same survey. 5 A discovery in northeastern Hardin County, Texas, (RRC 3) gave up 2.24 million cu. ft. of gas and 41 bbl. of condensate through a 14/62-in. choke with 2,455 psi of flowing casing pressure for Davis Southern Operating Co. LLC, Houston. The #1 Hampton, in A. Hampton Survey, A-30, produced from Yegua perforations between 7,272 and 7,318 ft. in the 8,200-ft. well. The nearest production from Yegua comes from the two-well Hampton West Field about a third-mile north in the same survey. 6 Bellaire, Texas, independent Rockport Georgetown Holdings LP drilled its first horizontal wildcat in a Maverick Basin exploratory program and made a discovery. The #96 1H Comanche Ranch, in Section 96, Block 6, I&GN RR Co. Survey, A-702, tested at 1.4 million cu. ft. of gas, 20 bbl. of condensate and 39 bbl. of water a day from an openhole Georgetown zone between 4,773 and 6,885 ft. The well is about 15 miles west of Carrizo Springs in Maverick County, Texas (RRC 1). The company plans two more horizontal wildcats in the area. Chittum Field, more than a mile west-southwest, produces from deeper Edwards, said IHS Energy. 7 A discovery has been produced in southeastern Jackson County, Texas, (RRC 2) for Brigham Oil & Gas LP, Austin, Texas. The company's deep, directional #3 Sartwelle came online flowing 530 bbl. of oil and 1.9 million cu. ft. of gas daily from Frio perforations between 10,000 and 10,336 ft. Nicknamed the Appling Deep Field discovery, the well reached some 82 ft. of net pay in Upper and Lower Frio. The perforated zones cover only about 32 ft. of that pay, leaving remaining zones behind pipe for future completion. The Juan Maldonado Survey, A-220, well is the first test in Brigham's Bayou Bengal project on a 1,400-acre structure where 400 billion cu. ft. of gas equivalent has been produced from shallower Frio zones. 8 Dominion Exploration & Production's Oklahoma City unit completed a discovery well near Holzmark Field in Live Oak County, Texas, (RRC 2) for a daily production rate of 4.64 million cu. ft. of gas and 543 bbl. of water. The #1 Dominion Fee, in Thomas P. Rhodes Survey, A-397, was tested through a 16/64-in. choke with 5,485 psi of flowing casing pressure from perforations between 11,100-30 ft. Production from a similar depth comes from Holzmark Field a mile west-southwest, which produces from Wilcox between 10,438 and 10,502 ft. 9 Houston-based EOG Resources Inc. posted a discovery flowing 1.28 million cu. ft. of gas, 39 bbl. of condensate and three bbl. of water a day from Eocene at its #1 Southwest Texas Corp. in northeastern Zapata County, Texas (RRC 4). Tests were run through a 12/64-in. choke with flowing casing pressure of 1,876 psi from perforations between 8,682 and 8,936 ft. The well is about 25 miles northwest of Roma in Juan Flores Survey, A-77. The discovery is surrounded by Eocene production shallower than 2,400 ft. in El Javali, Ware and Marks fields. 10 U.S. Enercorp. Ltd., San Antonio, permitted a wildcat about 2.75 miles north of La Sara in Hidalgo County, Texas (RRC 4). Located in Jose Narciso Cabazos Survey, A-571, the company's #1 Jeffrey is projected to 3,200 ft. It is about three miles south of the nearest production in La Sara South Field in Willacy County. There, the 2,415-ft. #1 O.P. Leonard Unit well produced a cumulative 361.24 million cu. ft. of gas from Miocene shallower than 2,500 ft. between 1969 and 1971, according to IHS Energy. 11 The East Cameron area gave up discovery wells for Remington Oil & Gas Corp. of Dallas. The company tested its #1 OCS-G-25950 well in East Cameron 140 for 10.7 million cu. ft. of gas a day from a single sand after drilling to 7,423 ft. It is drilling a second well from the same surface location to test different objectives. Magnum Hunter is a partner in the well. Also in East Cameron, Remington completed the #1 OCS-G-25965 in Block 235 for 10.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day. It also plans a test in the northeast corner of Block 235. The company has approved a $145-million capital budget for 2005, up 39% from the 2004 initial budget of $104 million. If early wells are successful this year, the company could increase spending to as much as $225 million. The program already contains provisions for 24 offshore exploratory wells, IHS Energy said. 12 Arena Offshore LLC, Houston, brought in a discovery with its #A-18 OCS-G-25926 well in West Cameron 595 in the Gulf of Mexico. It tested the well through Williana perforations between 6,258-98 ft. after drilling from a surface location to the north in Block 586. Total measured depth was 8,071 ft., and true vertical depth is 6,650 ft. 13 BP Plc started production from its Mad Dog Field in Green Canyon 826. The truss spar in 4,500 ft. of water is designed to handle some 100,000 bbl. of oil and 60 million cu. ft. of gas a day. Production from the field will move through the Caesar Pipeline to Ship Shoal 332B and from there into the Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline System. Gas will go through the Cleopatra pipeline to Ship Shoal 332A for relay into Manta Ray Gathering System and the Nautilus Gas Transportation System. Mad Dog is BP's first project to start this year. Thunder Horse, in Mississippi Canyon 778, is due online later this year with Atlantis, in Green Canyon 743, following in 2006. 14 Travis Peak is the target for a northern Louisiana wildcat planned by DRD Operating Co., The Woodlands, Texas. The company will drill the well in southern Caddo Parish in the southeastern city limits of Shreveport. The planned depth for the #1 Modean Osbourn, in Section 3-15n-162, is 7,000 ft. The closest production from a similar depth is a mile southwest in Metcalf Field, where the #1 Kelly tested at 38 bbl. of oil from Hosston perforations between 6,240 and 6,051 ft. There is no Travis Peak production within five miles of the proposed wildcat, according to IHS Energy. 15 Brammer Engineering Inc., Shreveport, La., staked a 13,700-ft. wildcat to Big Hum less than a mile east of the Terrebonne Parish boundary in west-central Lafourche Parish, La. It plans to drill the #1 Elizabeth Viguerie et al. in Section 64-18s-19e, about two miles northeast of the town of Montegut. Only one well was drilled previously and that 12,682-ft. venture was abandoned in 1965. 16 Threshold Development Co., Fort Worth, Texas, continued its exploration program in eastern Wilkinson County, Miss., by permitting two more Frio wells. It plans to drill the #1 Crosby-Foster Creek 28-10 in Section 28-3n-1w, and the #2 Crosby-Foster Creek 28-8 to the south in the same section, both to 4,000 ft. Threshold drilled the discovery well for Mallalieu Field in 2004 with a well that flowed 220,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Frio perforations between 3,401-03 ft.