1 Southwestern Smith County, Texas, (RRC 6) gave WSF Inc., Shreveport, La., a discovery pumping 50 bbl. of oil, 10,000 cu. ft. of gas and no water daily. The company's #1 Askew, in Dean Calloway Survey, A-283, about 15 miles northeast of Tyler, reached a total depth of 9,000 ft. and was plugged back to produce from Travis Peak perforations between 8,324-30 ft. and from 8,366-72 ft. The discovery is northwest of Wright Mountain Field, which produces from Pettet, but the nearest Travis Peak producer is two miles north-northwest in the two-well Starville East Field. There, the #1 Mack L. Goolsbee came in on pump for 138 bbl. of oil a day and produced 55,732 bbl. of oil, 383,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 130 bbl. of water between 1975 and 1983. 2 Hunt Petroleum Corp., Dallas, brought in a James Lime horizontal discovery in Shelby County, Texas, (RRC 6) for 757,000 cu. ft. of gas and 40 bbl. of water a day. The #1H Eula Davis produced from an openhole zone between 6,850 and 11,280 ft. through a 12/64-in. choke with 270 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The new well is in John Hughes Survey, A-318, some 4.5 miles southeast of Shelbyville. The nearest production from James Lime is from the #1 Ruby, drilled about 3.75 miles east-northeast in Huxley Field with in initial potential of 1.68 million cu. ft. of gas a day. The same month, a horizontal lateral from that well also flowed gas from James Lime. Cumulatively, the well produced 181.19 million cu. ft. of gas, 81 bbl. of condensate and 6,149 bbl. of water from December 2001 through last October, says IHS Energy. 3 Brown Oil & Gas Co., Mexia, Texas, completed a wildcat discovery two miles west of its hometown for 807,000 cu. ft. of gas and 22 bbl. of water a day. The #1A Ed Ellis is in Pedro Varela Survey, A-30, in northeastern Limestone County (RRC 5) and produced from Buda perforations from 5,890-95 ft. through a 12/64-in. choke with 1,230 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Brown also has staked the #F1 A.E. Berthelson (West) about a half-mile south-southwest in the same survey. The discovery is surrounded by wells in Mexia Field that produced from Nacatoch, Woodbine and Smackover. Only two wells in the whole county have produced from Buda, and the closest of those wells is five miles south-southwest of Brown's well. 4 A Hardin County, Texas, (RRC 3) discovery tested at 1.16 million cu. ft. of gas and one bbl. of condensate with no water for Crawford Energy Operating Co., Houston. The #1 Kirkpatrick et al. tapped Yegua perforations between 8,745-48 ft. and 8,750-52 ft. for tests through a 10/64-in. choke with 2,646 psi of flowing tubing pressure in the 9,480-ft. well. The well is in WC RR Co. Survey, A-517, about 2.5 miles southeast of Little Rock, Texas. The closest Yegua production is about a mile southeast at the #2 Houston Baptist University, which has recovered 1.67 billion cu. ft. of gas, 28,110 bbl. of condensate and 155,145 bbl. of water. That well is in Husky Field. In the same area, Cobra Oil & Gas Co., Wichita Falls, Texas plans two exploratory wells, the #1 Isaac, scheduled to 10,000 ft. about a mile southwest of Husky Field, and the #1 Black Stone Farmer Unit, aimed at Cook Mountain at 10,500 ft. 5 Basa Resources Inc., Dallas, completed a Frio discovery some six miles north of the Matagorda, Texas, city limits in southern Matagorda County (RRC 3). The #1 Kirby-Holy Cross tested 3.04 million cu. ft. of gas with four bbl. of condensate and four bbl. of water through an 8/64-in. choke with 9,315 psi of flowing tubing pressure. It tested the well through treated perforations between 14,390 and 14,411 ft. after drilling to 15,100 ft. in Section 1, Block 1, I&GN RR Co. Survey, A-307. Some two miles west-northwest, the #3 John A. Butter in Petrucha Field produced 72.2 million cu. ft. of gas, 6,129 bbl. of condensate and 1,443 bbl. of water from Frio between 1976 and 1981. According to IHS Energy, several operators are conducting deep exploratory tests in this area 6 Dallas-based Jamex Inc. has permitted a 13,200-ft. exploration well in northern Jackson County, Texas (RRC 2). The #A1 Goff well is about 15 miles north of Edna in Section 4, Block 1, I&GN RR Co. Survey, A-129. The well is a southwest offset to a shallower Frio discovery in the same survey. Jamex permitted another 13,200-ft. test earlier in adjacent Section 3, Block 4, I&GN RR Co. Survey, A-128. That well is the #1 Kubenka. The nearest deep well is a quarter-mile south of the Kubenka well where an apparent discovery was reported in March flowing 10.57 million cu. ft. of gas, 70 bbl. of condensate an 195 bbl. of water a day from fractured Wilcox between 11,530-50 ft. 7 Independent Dan A. Hughes Co., Beeville, Texas, has an apparent discovery with its #1 Julia Weathersbee in D.F. Waymouth Survey, A-330, more than 10 miles northwest of its headquarters in northwestern Bee County, Texas (RRC 2). The well produced at a rate of 3.04 million cu. ft. of gas and 128 bbl. of water a day from fractured perforations in Wilcox between 13,898 and 15,182 ft. The company tested through a 16/64-in. choke with 2,515 psi of flowing casing pressure. The well is a south-southwest offset to the deepest well in Holzmark Field in the same survey. There, the #2 Julia M. Pouliot "A" has produced 1.12 billion cu. ft. of gas and 6,591 bbl. of water from Wilcox between 13,823-62 ft. in its three years onstream. 8 A strong producer greeted Camden Resources Inc., Dallas, as it completed a workover in the Hostetter Field area of southeastern McMullen County, Texas (RRC 1). The #4 Rickman Deep Gas Unit flowed 5.79 million cu. ft. of gas and one bbl. of water a day through fractured perforations in Wilcox between 14,802-54 ft. Camden tested the well on a 12/64-in. choke with 7,915 psi of flowing tubing pressure. 9 Nakoma Petroleum LP, San Antonio, completed a discovery well at 12,560 ft. in Nueces County, Texas (RRC 4). The well was perforated and fractured between 11,416-60 ft. On a 19/64-in. choke, the well flowed at a rate of more than 1 million cu. ft. of gas, 40 barrels of oil and 200 barrels of water flowing through casing. Production tubing will be set and the well will pipe to sales. The production is coming from the Anderson Sand. The company will drill additional wells to develop the prospect. This discovery is in the "El Rincon de Corpus Christi" Roman De Ynojosa Survey, A-411. 10 Touchstone Resources USA Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pa., picked up a discovery flowing 2 million cu. ft. of gas and 100 bbl. of condensate a day at its #1 Frank Yturria in southwestern Hidalgo County, Texas (RRC 4). The well is in Antonio Miguel Cano Survey, A-81, about two miles east-northeast of Sullivan City, Texas, not quite three miles east-southeast of the Starr County boundary line and four miles north of the U.S. border with Mexico. Touchstone drilled the well to 9,325 ft. The nearest production from Vicksburg is 5.5 miles southeast. 11 A Gulf of Mexico well in the southwest quadrant of East Cameron 90 gave Callon Petroleum Operating Co., Natchez, Miss., a discovery. The company's #1 OCS-G-22576, in 61 ft. of water, flowed an unspecified volume of gas from Upper Miocene perforations between 8,057-88 ft. The company's exploration plan for the block calls for two wells from the same surface location with the second well reaching into Block 94 to the southwest. 12 Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc., New Orleans, plans to drill a wildcat in the northeast quadrant of Atwater Valley Block 13 in the Gulf of Mexico. The company's #1 OCS-G-24203 will be in 4,303 ft. of water. Plans filed with the Minerals Management Service show Chevron Corp., San Ramon, Calif., plans to drill the #2 well from the same surface location, also using Cal Dive International's Uncle John semisubmersible rig. 13 Ferriday, La.-based Bay Gas LLC has permitted a 4,500-ft. well in Section 23-13n-8e, about 6.6 miles west of the Tensas Parish boundary with north Louisiana's Franklin Parish. The #1 Snyder is about 2.7 miles north-northeast of the town of Gilbert. The nearest activity is about a half-mile southwest at an abandoned 4,041-ft. wildcat. The nearest production is in Killens Ferry Field some 6.3 miles northeast from zones ranging from Sparta at 1,369 ft. to Tuscaloosa to 7,100 ft. 14 Clayton Williams Energy Inc., Midland, Texas, completed a producer in Plaquemines Parish almost three miles northeast of Port Sulphur in southern Louisiana to re-establish production from Clam Bay Field. The company's #1 Orleans Levee District, in Section 21-17s-25e, flowed 10.44 million cu. ft. of gas with 1,034 bbl. of condensate a day from Textularia warreni perforations between 12,910-93 ft. It tested the well through a 23/64-in. choke with 3,807 psi of flowing tubing pressure. 15 James A. Whitson Jr., Houston, hit a discovery with a Miocene wildcat in southern Terrebone Parish, La. The #1 LL&E, in Section 11-20s-14e in Lake Pagie, flowed 323,000 cu. ft. of gas a day with no liquids through a 9/64-in. choke with 1,160 psi of flowing tubing pressure.