1 LCT Energy LP, Lewisville, Ark., plans a wildcat to 18,500 ft. in northwestern Red River County, Texas, (RRC 6) about a mile south of Woodland and two miles east of the Lamar County line. Lamar County has no production. The #1 T. Walker is planned for Daniel Perkins Survey, A-668. The closest production is 1.5 miles north where #1 Calvin reached pay shallower than 5,500 ft. There is no production deeper than 8,000 ft. in all of Red River County.



2 A directional wildcat likely will evaluate James Lime and Travis Peak in northeastern St. Augustine County, Texas, (RRC 6) for Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. The #1 Timberstar is scheduled to 11,400 ft. in Sydney A. Davis Survey, A-107, about a mile south of the Shelby County line. The closest production from a comparable depth is at #2H Savell about 1.5 miles north-northwest of the Southwestern well in southern Shelby County, reports IHS Inc. That well tested James Lime from 7,539 to 13,488 ft. for an initial potential of 1.2 million cu. ft. of gas a day in 2001. The operator recompleted the well later than year through perforations from 10,209 to 13,488 ft. as a part of Martinsville Southeast Field. January production totaled 2.71 million cu. ft. of gas.



3 An East Texas discovery flowed gas at a rate of 43.9 million cu. ft. with 52 bbl. of water a day at a well drilled by EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of EnCana Corp. of Calgary. The #1 Bonnie Ann tested through Cotton Valley perforations from 15,526 to 15,752 ft. through a 28/64-in. choke with 10,815 psi of flowing tubing pressure in Jose Maria Viesca Survey, A-46, about eight miles northeast of Franklin in Robertson County, Texas (RRC 5). The company drilled the well to 19,030 ft. About 0.75-mile west-northwest, EnCana tested #1 Meadows at 17.4 million cu. ft. of gas a day. That well produced 1.06 billion cu. ft. of gas in its first three months online.



4 Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, plans a wildcat to 16,500 ft. in Williams Baird Survey, A-10, some seven miles northeast of Hempstead in northern Waller County, Texas (RRC 3). The closes production is in Clear Creek Field 1.75 miles east. The #1 M.O. Sledge Unit in the single-well field produced 14,261 bbl. of oil and 1.49 million cu. ft. of gas from Wilcox perforations between 10,147-57 ft. The closest deeper production comes from #2 Martin Schulz, some 4.5 miles west-northwest of the Newfield well. There, the only well in Northstar Field flowed 1.69 million cu. ft. of gas a day initially and 27.94 million cu. ft. of gas with 4,412 bbl. of water during its one year online. That horizontal well produced from Edwards between 16,916 and 19,170 ft.



5 A discovery in James E.B. Austin Survey, A-17, in central Brazoria County, Texas, (RRC 3) tested 2.66 million cu. ft. of gas and 21 bbl. of condensate a day for Crawford Energy Operating Co., Houston. The #1 Vieman produced from Textularia mississippiensis perforations from 11,247-312 ft. through a 10/64-in. choke with 4,390 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The #1 McMillian well, a third-mile east, flowed 6.42 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Frio between 10,672 and 10,780 ft. as part of Manor Lake Field. The well produced a cumulative 3.65 billion cu. ft. of gas, 11,590 bbl. of condensate and 20,784 bbl. of water from 1956 through December 2006.



6 T-C Oil Co., Refugio, Texas, will drill a 10,000-ft. wildcat in eastern Refugio County (RRC 2). The wellsite for #1 Salt Creek A is in Sumpter Survey, A-296, about two miles from the Aransas County line. The closest producer in Salt Creek South Field is 2.5 miles southeast. There, #1 V. Tatton tested 1.9 million cu. ft. of gas a day in 1983 and produced a cumulative 232.7 million cu. ft. of gas and 4,946 bbl. of condensate during the next two years from Frio between 9,710-34 ft., reports IHS Inc.



7 Midland, Texas-based Lakewood Operating Ltd. has received permits for two new wildcats to evaluate gas potential in Wilcox in Section 261, Juana Alvillo Survey, A-136, about 20 miles southeast of Cotulla in La Salle County, Texas (RRC 1). The #2 and #3 Los Cuernos will both be drilled to 6,100 ft. The wells are northwest offsets to #1 Los Cuernos, also scheduled to Wilcox at 6,100 ft. The company also received a permit for #1 Baylor to the same formation and depth about 2.5 miles northeast of the Los Cuernos cluster. The closest producer to the Baylor well is 1.5 miles east-northeast where #6 Burks Ranch tested 1.16 million cu. ft. of gas from Wilcox between 5,220-25 ft.



8 Western Webb County, Texas, (RRC 4) hosted a Wilcox discovery as Killam Oil Co. Ltd., Laredo, Texas, tested its #2 Killam & Hurd Fee in Section 16, Dolores Garcia Survey, A-46, for 341,000 cu. ft. of gas a day through a 14/64-in. choke with 1,675 psi of flowing tubing pressure from perforations between 4,564-88 ft. The well, about two miles north-northeast of Laredo, is a southwest offset from the Killam's #1 Killam & Hurd Fee Porcion 16. It tested 983,000 cu. ft. of gas from Wilcox between 4,550-56 ft.



9 U.S. Enercorp Ltd., San Antonio, will drill an apparent Wilcox test to 17,000 ft. in northwestern Jim Hogg County, Texas (RRC 4). The #1 Garcia-Vela, about 15 miles northwest of Hebbronville in Section 573, T.R. Davis Survey, A-90, is surrounded by production in El Peyote, Las Coma and Romeo South fields, but primary production from those fields comes from Eocene at 2,000 to 6,000 ft. The deepest nearby production is in Thompsonville Northeast Field about 3.5 miles northwest where #1 Angelita Cantu tested 2.83 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Wilcox between 14,728-48 ft.



10 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, will drill its #1 Amaro Salinas Gas Unit wildcat to 14,000 ft. in Section 85, AB&M Survey, A-24, about 15 miles northeast of Roma in northwestern Starr County, Texas (RRC 4). The planned test is a couple of miles east of El Puerto Field, an Eocene pool with production above 3,000 ft. Estrella Field is nearly five miles northwest of the EOG Resources well. The #1 Estrella Gas Unit there was recompleted in 1992 for 2.57 million cu. ft. of gas and from Wilcox perforations between 12,400-18 ft. after the original wellbore was abandoned. It was recompleted again from a shallower Wilcox interval for 1.37 million cu. ft. of gas over a two-month period.



11 Shallow-water exploration continues in the western Gulf of Mexico as Medco Energi US LLC, Lafayette, La., scheduled a wildcat on northern Brazos Block 435. The #1 OCS G30634 is in 69 ft. of water and is the first of two wells specified by the company in its exploration plan for the block. Only one other well has been drilled on the block. That was a quarter-mile northwest of the new location and tested 4.3 million cu. ft. of gas a day through Miocene perforations from 6,622-38 ft. as part of Brazos Block 412 Field.



12 Remington Oil and Gas Corp., a subsidiary of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Houston, completed a gas discovery at its #1 OCS G23803 well in 201 ft. of water in East Cameron 316 in the Gulf of Mexico. It did not reveal the depth of the well, but the bottomhole location of the nearest recovery is a third-mile south-southeast at the only well that previously produced in the block, IHS Inc. reports. It was drilled from adjacent West Cameron 557 to 15,245 ft. and recovered a cumulative 2.82 billion cu. ft. of gas, 45,010 bbl. of condensate and 495,512 bbl. of water as part of East Cameron Block 299 Field.



13 Mariner Energy Inc., Houston, received a permit for a deepwater wildcat at its Magellan prospect in northwestern East Breaks 424 in the Gulf of Mexico. The #1 OCS G26599, in 2,790 ft. of water, could get six exploratory wells. The closest production from the area is nearly 10 miles west at the SS#1 OCS G17255, a well that showed an initial potential of 27.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 34 bbl. of condensate and 77 bbl. of water a day from Pleistocene perforations from 6,700-60 ft.



14 A discovery rewarded Marathon Oil Corp., Houston, for its deepwater drilling effort in Green Canyon Block 244 in the Gulf of Mexico. The company drilled its Droshky prospect (#2 OCS G11043), formerly the Troika Deep, in 2,900 ft. of water to a total depth of 21,190 ft. and found high-quality oil. Marathon estimates 250 ft. of net oil pay at the prospect. Preliminary results show the well is commercial, it reports, and the company probably will produce the well through the Shell Troika TA platform infrastructure in Block 200 about two miles north. Marathon already plans up to two sidetracks at the discovery.



15 A proposed wildcat, #1 Black Stone Minerals 29 in Section 29-8n-13w, northwestern Sabine Parish, northern Louisiana, will test Rodessa to 6,800 ft. for Brammer Engineering Inc., Shreveport, La. It is nearly a mile southeast of a 2005 Fredericksburg well drilled to 3,640 ft. and completed but still awaiting hookup to a pipeline. Apparently, the only Rodessa production in all of Sabine Parish is some 10 miles north in Converse Field. There, #1 Whitney Corp. flowed 500,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from perforations between 5,307-12 ft. It has produced 98.95 million cu. ft. of gas since 1979.



16 Harbor Resources LLC, Addison, Texas, completed its Three Bayou Bay well, #1 SL 18441, in Section 8-18s-2e about 30 miles south of New Orleans in Jefferson Parish, La., flowing 268 bbl. of oil and 78,000 cu. ft. of gas a day. It tested the well on a 12/64-in. choke through perforations from 10,662-69 ft.