1 A discovery rewarded drilling efforts by Barrow-Shaver Resources Co., Tyler, Texas, as it completed the #1 Shiels Unit in Eliza R. Caraway Survey, A-214, in Smith County, Texas, (RRC 6) for 124 bbl. of oil, 158,000 cu. ft. of gas and 1,266 bbl. of water a day. The well, 0.33-mile south of the Wood County boundary line and two miles south-southwest of the Hawkins city limits, produced from Lower Cretaceous perforations between 9,639-52 ft. through a 20/64-in. choke with 95 psi of flowing tubing pressure, IHS Energy says. The nearest well to a similar depth was a 1950 well in Red Springs Field. The #1 H.S. Chambers tested at 1.06 million cu. ft. of gas a day from an unreported formation. 2 Corpus Christi, Texas, independent Geodominion Petroleum scheduled a wildcat to 5,000 ft. in northwestern Limestone County, Texas, (RRC 5) about three miles east of Prairie. The #1 Findley is in Section 16, H&TC RR Co. Survey, A-655. The wildcat is nearly seven miles west of two wells in Christman Creek field, which produces from Woodbine perforations shallower than 3,225 ft., according to IHS Energy. 3 Burlington Oil & Gas Co. LP, Houston, received a permit for the #1 N.R. Lutz wildcat in southwestern Robertson County, Texas (RRC 5). The well is more than two miles west of Hearne and about the same distance from the Milam County border in George Antonio Nixon Survey, A-31. Burlington will drill the well to 14,500 ft. The nearest production lies more than three miles south-southwest at the #3 Cotopia-Ferrara Unit well, which produces from the Austin Chalk through dual laterals in Giddings Field. Another 4.5 miles southeast, the #1R Mary Muse showed an initial potential of 350,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Cotton Valley perforations between 12,228 and 12,766 ft. The well produced a cumulative 24.61 million cu. ft. of gas and 71,412 bbl. of water between February 2001 and April 2005 as part of the two-well Mumford North Field. 4 Duncan Oil Inc., Denver, completed two directional wildcats as Miocene discoveries in Jefferson County, Texas (RRC 3). The wells are a couple miles west of the Louisiana border and immediately outside the Port Arthur city limits. Duncan's #1 South Texas Land LP et al., in John McGaffey Survey, A-167, tested at 1.51 million cu. ft. of gas a day. The company tested perforations between 9,571-79 ft. on a 12/64-in. choke with 1,715 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Less than two miles northwest, the company's #1 Iles et al. tested at 713,000 cu. ft. of gas and two bbl. of condensate through a 9/64-in. choke with 2,532 psi of flowing tubing pressure from perforations between 8,724-32 ft. 5 A wildcat in southwestern Matagorda County, Texas, (RRC 3) flowed 4.6 million cu. ft. of gas, seven bbl. of condensate and 117 bbl. of water a day for El Paso Production Oil & Gas Co., Houston. The #1 Mad Island Unit "1" produced through a 9/64-in. choke with 7,992 psi of flowing tubing pressure from Textularia mississippiensis perforations between 17,619 ft. and 20,428 ft. in Joseph Bishop Survey, A-115. The company also took out a permit for the #2 Mad Island but has not yet drilled that well, according to IHS Energy observations. The nearest production below 15,000 ft. is 5.5 miles south-southwest in Matagorda Bay, where the #1 East Matagorda Bay Unit flowed 487.71 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,629 bbl. of condensate and 18,497 bbl. of water in one year online. 6 A discovery tested at 2.92 million cu. ft. of gas a day as Erskine Energy LLC, Houston, reestablished production in the single-well Ruidoso Field in northern Goliad County, Texas, (RRC 2) about 10 miles northwest of Goliad. The #1 Simmons Unit in Jose Maria Mancha Survey, A-203, also produced 23 bbl. of condensate and 78 bbl. of water a day through an 18/64-in. choke with 2,038 psi of flowing casing pressure from Wilcox perforations between 12,768 ft. and 12,884 ft. The discovery is nearly two miles east-northeast of the only previous well in Ruidoso Field. That well, the #1 Parkhill-Bednorz Unit in the same survey, produced 73.14 million cu. ft. of gas and 784 bbl. of water from Wilcox between 1994 and 1997. Erskine has scheduled several more wells below 15,000 ft. in the area in its Lions Field drilling program. 7 Manti Operating Co., Corpus Christi, Texas, pulled in a discovery in northern McMullen County, Texas, (RRC 1) for 156 bbl. of oil and 33,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Wilcox perforations between 5,385-94 ft., says IHS Energy. The #1 Kassner is about 1.5 miles south of the Atascosa County line in Section 959, George Elliott Survey, A-181. It ran tests through a 14/64-in. choke with 213 psi of flowing tubing pressure. A half-mile north, production comes from Wilcox at the #4-A Victor Houston. That 1973 well tested for 65 bbl. of oil and 34,000 cu. ft. of gas a day. 8 A Frio discovery added 101 bbl. of oil and 315,000 cu. ft. of gas with 285 bbl. of water a day to the production inventory of Continental Trend Resources Inc., Enid, Okla. The company drilled the #1 Jalufka in BS&F Survey, A-960, in central Nueces County, Texas, (RRC 4) about two miles west of Corpus Christi. It tested the well on a 48/64-in. choke with 160 psi of flowing tubing pressure from perforations between 8,504-74 ft. The closest Frio production is 1.5 miles east, where the #7 Cody tested at a rate of 1.16 million cu. ft. of gas and 12 bbl. of condensate a day. 9 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, claimed an apparent discovery flowing 1.39 million cu. ft. of gas, 15 bbl. of condensate and eight bbl. of water a day from Middle Frio at its #1 Progresso Deep Gas Unit. The southeastern Hidalgo County, Texas, (RRC 4) well, some three miles north of the border with Mexico, is in Juan Jose Balli Survey, A-54. EOG tested the 17,000-ft. well through a 12/64-in. choke with 2,065 psi of flowing tubing pressure from perforations between 10,716-56 ft. Nearby Lower Frio production comes from the two-well Progresso Field 1.5 miles south-southeast, according to IHS Energy. 10 Active Gulf of Mexico explorer Walter Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, completed a discovery earlier this year and filed an initial development operations coordination document to bring the well online. The #1 OCS-G-21736, renamed the #SS1, was drilled offshore in Viosca Knoll 986 and flowed gas from Pliocene perforations between 5,440 and 5,664 ft. in 895 ft. of water. The discovery is on the same surface location as the company's #SS2 OCS-G-14618 well in Block 986. That well has produced 4.16 billion cu. ft. of gas and 1,950 bbl. of water since November 2002 as part of Viosca Knoll Block 986 Field. 11 Kerr-McGee Corp., Oklahoma City, submitted exploration plans for as many as four wildcats on three blocks in the Garden Banks area of the Gulf of Mexico. All four will be drilled from separate locations on Garden Banks 521. The wells under blocks 521 and 565 will look at the company's Nassau prospect, while the Block 566 well is the Kingston prospect. Water depths in the area range from 2,543 to 2,681 ft. There is no nearby production. The nearest well is nine miles west-southwest at the temporarily abandoned #1 OCS-G-20794 in Block 562. The nearest production is more than 10 miles northwest in the Cooper and Llano fields in Block 388. 12 A reentry into a Richland Parish wildcat will look for gas in the Monroe gas rock. The #1 E.N. Eppinette in Section 7-18n-8e is about 3.5 miles southeast of the Morehouse Parish boundary, and operator Rock Creek Oil Co., Holliday, Texas, wants to take a closer look at the formation at 2,725 ft. The original 1958 wildcat went to 9,137 ft. with no recoveries. The nearest production is five miles southeast from Travis Peak. The nearest Monroe Gas Field well is another seven miles west-northwest. More than 12,000 wells have been drilled in that field. 13 Denver-based Aspect Energy LLC plans a wildcat to Cristellaria "I" in Section 6-13s-13e in St. Bernard Parish in southern Louisiana about a mile northeast of the Orleans Parish boundary. The company will drill its #1 Violet Canal directionally about a half-mile east-southeast beneath Section 7 to a measured depth of 11,069 ft. True vertical depth is 9,950 ft. The closest production is from Middle Miocene. 14 Key Production Inc., Tulsa, claimed a discovery with its #2 Speed wildcat to open Don't Dome Field in eastern Covington County in southern Mississippi. The well, in Section 12-8n-15w, tested at 909 bbl. of oil, 1.5 million cu. ft. of gas and seven bbl. of water a day from fractured Lower Hosston between 16,756 and 16,974 ft. Tests were run through a 20/64-in. choke with 1,039 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The directional well bottomed about 0.25-mile northeast of the surface location in the same section. The company abandoned the #1 Black Stone, a potential confirmation well for the field. The nearest production to the new field is 1.5 miles east-southeast of the discovery well in Leaf River Field. The nearest Hosston production is from Collins Field, another 2.5 miles southwest.