1 West Mountain Operating Co. Inc., Longview, Texas, permitted a directional wildcat to 4,200 ft., a deep well for the area. The #1 Lucky 7 Ranch well is nearly seven miles south of Corsican in southern Navarro County (RRC 5) in William R. Bowen Survey, A-58. It will bottom in the same survey 467 ft. east of the surface location. The closest production is nearly 1.5 miles northwest in Powell Field. That well, drilled in 1944, was completed for three bbl. of oil a day from less than 2,890 ft. Corsican Field lies more than four miles east-northeast, but only 27 wells in that field have produced from depths below 2,000 ft. in Nacatoch and Woodbine. The main reservoir for that field is Nacatoch, which feeds more than 1,200 wells. 2 More than a mile from the nearest producer, Unit Petroleum Co., Houston, will drill #1 Grauke Gas Unit, a Freestone County, Texas, (RRC 5) wildcat. The well will bottom at 18,730 ft. in Isaac D. Parker Survey, A-503, less than 1,000 ft. north-northwest of the surface location. The surface location is two miles northwest of the Leon County line. The closest producer lies west-northwest where the #2 Best Unit has produced 106.83 million cu. ft. of gas, 35 bbl. of condensate and 9,201 bbl. of water from Bossier perforations between 13,426 and 13,802 ft., according to IHS Energy. 3 Eastern Anderson County, Texas, (RRC 6) will host an apparent Pettet wildcat for Bayou City Exploration Inc., Houston. The well is about four miles west of the Cherokee County line in William Puachard Survey, A-624. Bayou City will drill its #1 King Unit to 10,500 ft. a mile west of Neches North Field, which produced from Sub-Clarksville at around 4,700 ft. The closest production from a comparable depth is almost 6.5 miles west in Mound Prairie Field, where the 11,300-ft. #1 L.G. Rust tested for 425,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Pettet perforations. 4 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Texas, registered 4.51 million cu. ft. of gas a day at its #1 Whitehead "A" discovery 10 miles northeast of Crockett in northern Houston County, Texas (RRC 6). The well, in Section 851, J.A. Parker Survey, A-863, tapped Jurassic Cotton Valley/Bossier between 16,112 and 18,731 ft. It tested the well through a 48/64-in. choke with 1,150 psi of flowing casing pressure. Anadarko drilled the well to 19,511 ft. and plugged back to 19,357 ft. The closest production is more than 0.33-mile west in Latexo East Field where the #1 E.D. Moore produced 230 million cu. ft. of gas, 957 bbl. of condensate and 33,166 bbl. of water in five years from Travis Peak between 11,960 and 12,512 ft. after it was plugged back from 19,550 ft. 5 Prime Operating Co., Houston, drilled a discovery with its #1 Moneywort, in Davis N. Hart Survey, A-165, about 3.75 miles west of the San Jacinto County line in Walker County, Texas (RRC 3). Although volumes weren't reported, the well found Miocene production through perforations between 3,092 and 3,101 ft. The nearest production is a Jackson formation well 3.5 miles south-southeast. That 3,507-ft. well tested at 5.02 million cu. ft. of gas a day. 6 Houston-based Petrohawk Operating Co. plans a wildcat to Wilcox in Colorado County, Texas (RRC 3). The company's #2 W.D. Garrett is a half-mile northeast of the Lavaca County line in Asa McClure Survey, A-411, in an area surrounded by shallower Frio production. The 18,000-ft. well is 1.25 miles west-southwest of the #2 A.V. Kallina in Garwood Southwest Field. That 16,562-ft. well tested for 1.35 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Wilcox perforations between 14,504-20 ft. That well produced for only a year and Petrosearch plans to reenter the well for a better completion. 7 Drilling in southeastern Fort Bend County, Texas, (RRC 3) Garrison Ltd., San Antonio, brought in a Miocene discovery with an initial potential of 469,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from perforations between 4,009-15 ft. The company's #1 Gorka is 2.5 miles south of the town of Thompsons in David H. Milburn Survey, A-59. It tested the well on an 8/64-in. choke with 1,485 psi of flowing casing pressure. The single-well Worthington Lake Field is about 0.25-mile northeast. There, the #1 Catherine Gorka tested for 557,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Frio between 7,205-08 ft., according to IHS Energy. 8 Corpus Christi, Texas-based Manti Operating Co. took out a permit for its #1 Glover wildcat in Section 19, J. Poitevent Survey, A-971, in southeastern Atascosa County, Texas, (RRC 1) about a half-mile north of the McMullen County line and 20 miles southeast of Jourdanton. The apparent Wilcox well is scheduled to 6,500 ft. It is more than a mile west-northwest of the single-well Blackjack Field, where the #1 J.S. Ambercrombie 74 Ranch tested at 56 bbl. of oil and 20,000 cu. ft. of gas a day. 9 Manti Operating Co. has also permitted a wildcat to 5,800 ft. about a half-mile south of the Atascosa County line in western McMullen County, Texas (RRC 1). It will drill the #1 Henry-Hardin in Section 505, GC&SF RR Co. Survey, A-930. The closest current production is about a mile south-southeast in Crowther Field, where the #1 Poenisch tested for 10 bbl. of oil a day from Wilcox between 5,997 and 6,001 ft. Slightly more than a mile east-northeast, Manti recently drilled the #1 Cajur Caper Unit to reach production of 32 bbl. of oil a day from Wilcox between 5,976-82 ft. 10 Two deep tests in eastern DeWitt County, Texas, (RRC 2) will occupy Dallas-based Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc. The #1 Muenich will be drilled to 15,500 ft. in Frederick Whitehurst Survey, A-485, and the #1 Boothe, 3.75 miles northeast, will be drilled to 16,000 ft. in the Francis J. Trippard Survey, A-458. The wells are eight to 10 miles northeast of Cuero. The closest production is from the #1H Steinmann, a horizontal Edwards well that tested for 4.49 million cu. ft. of gas and 32 bbl. of water a day from an openhole section between 14,460 and 17,500 ft. 11 Charro Operating LLC, Fort Worth, Texas, plans an apparent Frio wildcat to 8,800 ft. less than a half-mile north of the Refugio County line in southern Victoria County, Texas (RRC 2). The #1 Fagan, in the I & Jose Maria Valdez Survey, A-115, is 1.25 miles southeast of the one-well Fagan Northeast Field, where another #1 Fagan flowed 560,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Frio perforations between 8,053-61 ft. That well produced 296.22 million cu. ft. of gas, 3,545 bbl. of condensate and 10,965 bbl. of water from 1983-86, according to IHS Energy. It was recompleted in a shallower Frio zone for another 60.84 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,749 bbl. of condensate and 935 bbl. of water. 12 Ventex Operating Corp., Dallas, discovered gas at a daily rate of 1.64 million cu. ft. with two bbl. of condensate at its #1 Limon Unit in southeastern Hidalgo County, Texas (RRC 4). The well is immediately outside the city limit of Scissors in Lino Cabazos Survey, A-57. The company tested the well through a 12/64-in. choke with 2,065 psi of flowing tubing pressure from Frio perforations between 7,330-40 ft. 13 The Meridian Resource & Exploration Co., Houston, claimed a discovery with its Gato del Sol well in Louisiana state waters offshore St. Bernard Parish. The #1 State Lease 18307, in the northwest quadrant of Chandeleur South Addition 43, tested for 7.06 million cu. ft. of gas and 14 bbl. of water a day from Cristellaria I between 7,034-39 ft. through a 23/64-in. choke with 2,027 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The latest well is some two miles northwest of the company's String of Pearls discovery that flowed 6.18 million cu. ft. of gas and 15 bbl. of water a day. 14 A discovery tested at a rate of 5 million cu. ft. of gas and 14 bbl. of condensate a day on a four-hour test from the lowest of four zones for Contango Operators Inc., Houston, at its Liberty prospect (#1 OCS-G-26124) in the southwestern quarter of Grande Isle 72. The company drilled to 14,256 ft. to find 140 ft. of potential net pay in the four zones. It plans to complete the three remaining sands as the initial zone depletes and may drill another well. 15 BP Exploration & Production Inc. will bypass a wildcat at its Kaskida prospect in the ultradeep Keathley Canyon area. The company encountered drilling problems in the initial well at 17,952 ft. in the scheduled 32,400-ft. hole, according to IHS Energy. The company may drill up to three wells from the common surface location in Block 292. It also filed a plan to drill three wells in Keathley Canyon Block 336, immediately south as a potential field extension. The water depth in that block is 5,760 ft. The closest drilling to the BP locations was of a ConocoPhillips well some 15 miles south-southwest. The company abandoned that test at an unreported depth in February 2003. Fewer than 10 wells have been drilled in the Keathley Canyon area and it has no production. 16 As the group of companies with discoveries in the southern Alaminos Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico get close to deciding on a production system, French firm Total Exploration & Production USA Inc. will drill the first wildcat to test its Gotcha prospect in 7,613 ft. of water. The company has proposed up to eight wells in Alaminos Canyon Block 856. The edge of Shell's Great White discovery lies about a mile east. Another well is 3.5 miles north-northeast. Great White covers all or parts of blocks 813, 814, 857, 858, 900 and 901.