1 Cotton Valley gave up a discovery at the #1 Lanston Gas Unit "1" wildcat drilled by Mustang Drilling Ltd., Henderson, Texas. The Shelby County (RRC 6) well in Carter Jackson Survey, A-389, about 0.66-mile southeast of Timpson and 5.5 miles southeast to the Rusk and Nacogdoches county boundary tested perforations between 9,462 and 10,096 ft. through a 16/64-in. choke with 1,015 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well produced 552,000 cu. ft. of gas, four bbl. of condensate and 199 bbl. of water a day. The nearest commercial Cotton Valley production is almost seven miles south-southwest in Stockman Field. In that field, the #5 Stockman Gas Unit "1" tested for 1.56 million cu. ft. of gas a day and last January, its first month online, produced 11.62 million cu. ft. of gas, 447 bbl. of condensate and 2,685 bbl. of water. 2 Southwestern Energy Production Co., Houston, plans an 11,700-ft.wildcat in Juan Manuel Cruze Survey, A-153, about 10 miles northeast of Lufkin in Angelina County, Texas, (RRC 6) about a mile south of the Nacogdoches County boundary. The nearest production is less than two miles west at the #1 Cameron, the opener for Red Land Northeast Field. That well produced 864.15 million cu. ft. of gas, 18,260 bbl. of condensate and 6,580 bbl. of water between its discovery in 1982 and the end of 1988. It was recompleted in the James Lime for another 167.8 million cu. ft. of gas, 2,122 bbl. of condensate and 5,732 bbl. of water through 1992. 3 Mount Pleasant, Mich., independent First Texas Gas LP completed a discovery near Hilltop Resort Field in southwestern Leon County, Texas, (RRC 5) according to parent Gastar Exploration Ltd., Houston. The #1 Gastar Lone Oak Ranch should produce 6- to 8 million cu. ft. of gas a day into the pipeline from 20 ft. of net Bossier pay. The 19,000-ft. well is in Pedro Jose de Jesus Pereire & Mariano Grande Survey, A-17. The company plans to re-stimulate its nearby #1 Gastar Cheney using the treatment that was successful in the new well. That well, completed in February, showed an initial potential of 5.99 million cu. ft. of gas and 486 bbl. of water a day from Bossier perforations between 14,632 and 16,624 ft., according to IHS Energy. 4 Crawford Energy Operating Co., Houston, tested 192 bbl. of oil and 101,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas daily from its #1 Will-Kirk discovery in Section 349, WC Survey, A-522, in Hardin County, Texas (RRC 3). The 9,740-ft. well, more than seven miles southwest of Kountze, produced through a 10/64-in. choke with 890 psi of flowing tubing pressure from Yegua perforations between 9,212-20 ft., said IHS Energy. 5 Southwestern Fort Bend County, Texas, (RRC 3) will host a 13,500-ft. wildcat planned by Cypress Exploration & Production Corp., Houston. The #1 Jabber, more than two miles south of Pleak, is in Section 30, H&TC RR Co. Survey, A-452. The nearest production is from Yegua above 9,400 ft. more than a mile west-southwest. The nearest deeper production comes from a Cypress Cook Mountain discovery made in January about 2.25 miles northwest of the #1 Jabber. That well, the #1 Kasparek et al., flowed 2.16 million cu. ft. of gas with 106 bbl. of condensate and three bbl. of water from perforations between 10,481 and 10,506 ft. 6 Sugar Land, Texas, independent C&E Operating Inc. will drill an 11,000-ft. wildcat in the John J. Ogsberry Survey, A-127, in north-central Calhoun County, Texas (RRC 2). The location for the #1 Tigner is nearly five miles northeast of Seadrift and a mile northeast of the company's #1 Melcher well which re-established production in Coloma Creek North Field last September. That well flowed 2.8 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Frio perforations between 10,030-60 ft. 7 Southern Resource Co., Corpus Christi, Texas, brought in a discovery near the abandoned Harris Northeast Field in central Live Oak County, Texas (RRC 2). The #2 Foley tested for 2.05 million cu. ft. of gas, 124 bbl. of condensate and seven bbl. of water a day from Wilcox between 9,317-28 ft. The company tested the well through a 10/64-in. choke with 4,133 psi of flowing tubing pressure. After setting casing to 12,403 ft. in the well, drilled in Jacob Matson #27 Survey, A-303, some 3.5 miles north of the town of George West, the company plugged back to 9,382 ft. for production. The well is a northeast offset to the closest well in the abandoned Harris Northeast Field in the same survey. That field also produced from Wilcox. 8 Manti Operating Co. scheduled a wildcat nearly a mile south of the Atascosa County boundary line in northeastern McMullen County, Texas (RRC 1). The Corpus Christi, Texas, independent projected the #1 A.W. Hood to 6,000 ft. in Section 3, GH&H RR Co. Survey, A-219, about five miles northeast of Tilden. Although a 6,300-ft. test was abandoned in the same section, Wilcox produces about two miles south-southwest in San Miguel Creek Northeast Field. In that field, the #1 E Lewis pumped an initial 101 bbl. of oil a day from perforations between 6,264-74 ft. 9 Ballard Exploration Co. Inc., Houston, continued its success with another Vicksburg discovery in northwestern Brooks County, Texas (RRC 4). The #1 Betsy Bennett "B" flowed 125 bbl. of oil and 671,000 cu. ft. of natural gas a day from perforations between 5,625-53 ft. through a 10/64-in. choke with 1,750 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well is 10 miles southwest of Falfurrias in Juan Jose Guerra Survey, A-257. Ballard is waiting on completions tools 1.25 miles south-southwest in the same survey, according to IHS Energy. 10 Southwestern Hidalgo County, Texas, (RRC 4) gave up a discovery for Touchstone Resources USA Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pa. The company's #1 Frank Yturria, in Antonio Miguel Cano Survey, A-81, tested 2.1 million cu. ft. of gas with 12 bbl. of condensate a day from Vicksburg perforations between 9,285 and 9,354 ft. through a 13/64-in. choke with 2,420 psi of flowing casing pressure. The well is about two miles east-northeast of Sullivan City nearly three miles east-southeast of the Starr County boundary line and four miles north of the U.S. border with Mexico. 11 Stone Energy Corp., Lafayette, La., discovered gas at its #A-18 (BP) OCS-G-25599 wildcat in 271 ft. of water in High Island A-569 in the Gulf of Mexico. The 11,918-ft. well, drilled from the Noble Energy "A" platform in Block A-568, test an undisclosed volume of gas from Lissie perforations between 9,564 and 9,618 ft. Stone plans up to four tests in the area, according to IHS Energy. 12 The Ticonderoga prospect in Green Canyon 768 is next in line among wildcats planned in the Gulf of Mexico by Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp., Oklahoma City. It will drill the #2 OCS-G-21817 in 5,257 ft. of water in the northwestern quadrant of the tract. It temporarily abandoned a previous well drilled from the same location after logging 250 ft. of net hydrocarbon pay, mostly oil, in three intervals. 13 The Meridian Resource Corp., Houston, staked a wildcat in False Mouth Bay in northern St. Bernard Parish, La. The company's #1 State Lease 18256, in Section 13-12s-17e, is part of an exploration program aimed at Textularia warreni around Bayou Biloxi Field. The 7,000-ft. test is 1.67 miles north of another wildcat proposed by the company to Cristellaria I. It scheduled another well to the same formation 3.5 miles northeast. 14 Ballard Exploration plans a wildcat on the Iberia Parish side of Vermilion Bay about 1.5 miles east of the Vermilion Parish boundary. The company's #1 State Lease 17861 will test Miocene Planulina at 18,500 ft. The nearest production to the proposed wildcat is the northernmost well in Vermilion Bay Field about 2.75 miles south-southeast. That well, the #1 State Lease 334-B Vermilion Bay, tested at 2.8 million cu. ft. of gas a day from perforations between 14,941-61 ft. in a 19,300-ft. well. The well has produced 22.09 billion cu. ft. of gas, 158,248 bbl. of condensate and 53,286 bbl. of water through 2000. 15 Plano, Texas independent Denbury Onshore LLC will drill at 16,800-ft. wildcat in search of Norphlet gas at its #1 Pearl River "13-7" wildcat in northern Section 13-7n-4e in Rankin County, Miss. An abandoned Cotton Valley test was drilled in the same section, but the nearest Norphlet production is in Pisgah South Field some 2.33 miles south-southwest. The discovery well in that field tested at 20.5 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Smackover and Norphlet between 16,150 and 16,218 ft. That discovery has produced 42.4 billion cu. ft. of gas and 3,819 bbl. of water. 16 Key Production Inc., Tulsa, Okla., claimed a discovery when its #2 Speed in Section 12-8n-15w in Covington County, Miss., flowed 400 bbl. of oil and 850,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas a day. The well produced through Hosston perforations from 16,756-94 ft. through a 14/64-in. choke with 1,800 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The closest production is from Rodessa and Sligo nearly 1.75 miles east-southeast on Leaf River Field. The nearest Hosston production is another 2.5 miles south-southwest in Section 25-8n-15w, where the #1 Alma Rogers 25-8 produced 18,600 bbl. of oil, 71.54 million cu. ft. of gas and 510 bbl. of water between January 1977 and December 1978.