1 The Barnett Shale play just keeps growing and EOG Resources Inc. is helping it grow with a wildcat near the southeast corner of the play in northwestern Johnson County, Texas. The company is drilling the #1 Beasley in previously undrilled Johnson County School Lands Survey, A-443, about 1.5 miles north-northwest of Godley. The nearest previous activity was EOG's #1 Carrell, located 2.5 miles northeast. The company has not released full production test details. 2 Apache Corp., Houston, tested a wildcat discovery at a daily rate of 1.8 million cu. ft. of gas, 50 bbl. of condensate and three bbl. of water at its #1 Johnson in the Lemuel B. Brown Survey, A-23, in Upshur County, Texas. The 12,400-ft. well produces from perforations in the Haynesville from 12,350-90 ft. Apache tested the well on a 16/64-in. choke with 1,105 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well is 1.5 miles southeast of the #1 Bradshaw Gas Unit, a 1982 well in Cherokee Trace Field. That well flowed 2.2 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Jurassic between 11,856-96 ft. and has cumulatively produced 1.2 billion cu. ft. of gas, 15,397 bbl. of condensate and 339,257 bbl. of water, according to IHS Energy. 3 Strand Energy LLC, Houston, chalked up a discovery with its #1 Fife well in Isaac Best Survey, A-13, in northwestern Waller County, Texas, about two miles south and east of the Washington County boundary line. The well tested at 1.1 million cu. ft. of gas, 60 bbl. of condensate and 10 bbl. of water a day from Wilcox perforations between 7,579-82 ft. through a 12/64-in. choke with 2,515 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The company originally completed the well last July in Lower Wilcox. It produced 80.6 million cu. ft. of gas, 4,157 bbl. of condensate and 3,223 bbl. of water during its first four months onstream. 4 Ocean Energy Inc. completed an apparent discovery well testing at 2.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day with 32 bbl. each of condensate and water offshore Chambers County in Texas state waters. The #1L State Tract 98-L sidetrack, on High Island Block 98-L about 10 miles south of Gilchrist, Texas, was tested on a 13/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 2,445 psi. The company originally completed this well in 1996 flowing 9.1 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Siphonina Davisis perforations between 9,864 ft. and 10,064 ft. Through December of last year, the well had produced a cumulative 9.4 billion cu. ft. of gas, 62,936 bbl. of condensate and 9,523 bbl. of water. 5 Wagner Oil Co., Fort Worth, completed a wildcat discovery for 120 bbl. of oil and 150,000 cu. ft. of gas and seven bbl. of water a day a mile east of the McMullen County line in Live Oak County, Texas. The #12 Sanger Heirs produces from Queen City perforations between 6,056-60 ft. and from 6,260-65 ft. after the operator drilled to a total depth of 7,812 ft. The well was tested on a 7/64-in. choke with 995 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well offsets a Cloeter Field well, which also is in GC&SF RR Co. Survey, A-834. 6 A horizontal wildcat gave up 2.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 701 bbl. of water a day for Abaco Operation LLC, San Antonio. The #1 USA well in Live Oak County, Texas, produced from an openhole interval between 14,105 ft. and 15,730 ft. total measured depth (12,582 ft. to 12,679 ft. true vertical depth) in Edwards. Abaco ran the tests through a 24/64-in. choke with 1,505 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well is in Luis Ayers #15 Survey, A-2. The closest production from Edwards, according to IHS Energy, is the #1 J.V. Isaacks, a well completed in the same survey more than a mile south-southeast. That well tested at 640,000 cu. ft. of gas and 63 bbl. of water a day. 7 TotalFinaElf Exploration & Production USA, Houston, completed a high-volume sidetrack well in El Ebanito Field in Starr County, Texas, for 24.2 million cu. ft. of gas a day. The #139 T.B. Slick Estate, some nine miles west of McCook in Hidalgo County, was tested through a 41/64-in. choke with 3,465 psi of flowing tubing pressure from perforations between 9,033 ft. and 9,202 ft. The company originally completed the well in Vicksburg last May and produced 1.1 billion cu. ft. of gas, 22,451 bbl. of condensate and 30,849 bbl. of water. The company has asked for permission to commingle production from both formations. 8 A Los Torritos North Field well has been completed for 20.1 million cu. ft. of gas, 278 bbl. of condensate and 648 bbl. of water a day by Dan A. Hughes Co. The Beeville operator tested the Frio between 9,438 ft. and 10,513 ft. at its #1 Coates "A," in Jose Maria Balli Survey, A-26, Hidalgo County, Texas. The company drilled the well to 10,600 ft. and cased with five-in. pipe two ft. short of the hole bottom. About 0.25-mile north-northwest, Stephens Production Co. completed the #3 Tanner in the same field flowing 10.1 million cu. ft. of gas, 164 bbl. of condensate and 17 bbl. of water a day, also from the Frio. 9 Manti Operating Co., Corpus Christi, completed two wildcats in Cristellaria I in Louisiana state waters off St. Bernard Parish in the Chandeleur Sound area of the Gulf of Mexico for a combined 19 million cu. ft. of gas a day. In northwestern Block 28, the company's #1 State Lease 17557 tested at 12.4 million cu. ft. of gas a day and 10 bbl. of water from perforations between 8,771 ft. and 9,008 ft. through a 22/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 3,868 psi. The #1 State Lease 173994, four miles west in Chandeleur Sound 26, flowed 6.5 million cu. ft. of gas a day from 6,828-49 ft. through a 20/64-in. choke with 2,520 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The company also is drilling a well in the northwestern corner of Block 27. The nearest producer is a 1954 well in Block 41, which flowed at a rate of 2.3 million cu. ft. of gas a day. 10 Yuma Exploration & Production Co. Inc., Houston, completed a wildcat discovery in Louisiana state waters offshore St. Bernard Parish in Main Pass Block 9. The #1 State Lease 17451 flowed 2.1 million cu. ft. of gas, one bbl. of condensate and 51 bbl. of water a day from Miocene perforations between 8,742-86 ft. Yuma tested the well on a 14/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 2,975 psi. The nearest production to the discovery is about a mile west-southwest in Main Pass Block 10 Field where the #1 State Lease 16172 flowed 3.2 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Miocene on completion in February 2000. 11 In the western Gulf of Mexico, Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc., Irving, Texas, is drilling its first wildcat on Brazos Block 490. Called the Roatan prospect, the company spudded the #1 OCS-G-22193 in 60 ft. of water and at last report had run 117/8-in. casing to 9,703 ft. The company plans up to three tests on the block from the same surface location. Pioneer paid $353,500 for the tract at the August 2000 lease sale. Only two wells have been drilled on the block, the #1 OCS-G-1409, which was abandoned at 8,418 ft., and the #1 OCS-G-10219, abandoned at 8,841 ft. The nearest production is 2.5 miles northwest in Brazos Block 478L, where a well produced from Miocene. 12 Remington Oil & Gas Corp., Dallas, tested its #1 OCS-G-22554 wildcat in West Cameron Block 428 in the Gulf of Mexico for 8.5 million cu. ft. of gas equivalent a day. The company did not report the producing zone for the well, but it was drilled in 94 ft. of water. The only previous drilling on the block was a 1979 well that was abandoned. The nearest production is 1.5 miles northwest in West Cameron 427 where Hall-Houston Oil Co. completed its #B-1 OCS-G-2846 flowing gas at unreported volumes. It cased the well to total depth of 7,137 ft. Partners in the discovery are Magnum Hunter Production Inc. and The Wiser Oil Co., each with 25%. 13 BP Exploration & Production Inc., Houston, filed an initial plan of exploration for its Puma prospect in Green Canyon Block 823 in the Gulf of Mexico. The plan anticipates four wells from separate surface locations in the south half of the block in approximately 4,150 ft. of water. About six miles north-northeast, Murphy Exploration & Production Co. turned up a dry hole at its Run for the Roses prospect in Green Canyon Block 735. BP's Mad Dog discovery is about 10 miles east on the Atwater Foldbelt. 14 Westport Oil & Gas Co. LP, Denver, has scheduled a wildcat in deep water in Atwater Canyon Block 7. This will be the first in up to two wells at the same surface location in 3,175 ft. of water. Westport, with a two-thirds interest, and Case-Pomeroy Oil Corp., bought the lease at the March 1999 sale for $1.5 million. The site is about three miles west-southwest of Shell's Cyclops commercial discovery in Block 8. In Mississippi Canyon Block 976, immediately north of Block 7, EEX Corp. filed plans in 2000 to drill up to six wildcats. That company also has drilling plans for Atwater Canyon Block 8.