1 Methane Energy Corp., Maple Valley, Wash., expanded its corehole program to evaluate coalbed methane in Coos County, Ore. The company has drilled its #4 Coaledo Ranch Core Hole in Section 7-27s-13w. As with the previous wells in the series, the operator is keeping information tight. 2 Two wildcats are in the planning stages for different operators in sparsely drilled Nevada. Geyser Petroleum Inc., Southlake, Texas, permitted the #1 Pipeline Canyon-Federal in Section 28 of previously undrilled Township 15n-62e in White Pine County. The well is on the western flank of Ward Mountain more than 40 miles northeast of production in Railroad Valley, according to IHS Energy. In Section 21-21n-57e, also in White Pine County, Pioneer Oil & Gas Co., South Jordan, Utah, permitted a second wildcat near the Yankee gold mine. The #2 Yankee Mine West is about 45 miles northwest of Ely, Nev. At press time, the company still was drilling the #1 Yankee well a half-mile north-northwest. 3 Noble Energy Inc., Houston, permitted a northeastern Utah wildcat off the northern flank of the Uinta Uplift. The company's #32-20 Antelope Hollow-State, Section 20-3n-19e in Daggett County, is about 20 miles east-southeast of production from the Moxa Arch in southwestern Wyoming. The nearest town is Manila, about four miles east. Noble plans to drill the well to Morrison at 18,500 ft. The nearest drilling to a comparable depth was about two miles north-northeast at an 18,489-ft. dry hole, according to IHS Energy. 4 Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, has drilled one wildcat and plans five more to look for Triassic Wingate gas about 43 miles northeast of Green River in southern Uintah County, Utah. Four of the projected 12,000-ft. Uinta Basin wells are on the Tumbleweed Federal Exploratory Unit, which Barrett operates. All the wells are in Township 15s-21e. The four Tumbleweed wells are the #3-4-15-21 Tumbleweed Unit-Federal in Section 4, the #15-8-15-21 TU-F in Section 8, the #3-9-15-21 TU-F in Section 9 and the #14-17-15-21 TU-F in Section 17. Bill Barrett drilled the first wildcat, the #14-16-15-21 Tumbleweed Unit-State in Section 16 in 2003 to 5,800 ft. to test Mancos and didn't release details about the well. It also has staked a location for a 6,100-ft. Mesaverde-Mancos wildcat at the #8-5-15-21 Tumbleweed Unit in Section 5. The nearest reported production is more than two miles west and northwest in a new field being developed by Bill Barrett and Wind River Resources Corp. on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. That field has two Wasatch producers. 5 Minot, S.D.-based L.E. Behm received a permit for a wildcat about 32 miles north-northwest of Harlem in north-central Montana. The company originally planned to drill to Cambrian at 8,000 ft. at its #1-8-37-21 Gordon, in Section 8-37n-21e in northern Blaine County, but later decided to drill only to look for Devonian gas at to 6,800 ft. The well will be about 1.5 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border and 10 miles east-northeast of Upper Cretaceous Eagle gas production in Battle Creek Field, said IHS Energy. 6 The Nance Petroleum Corp. subsidiary of St. Mary Land & Exploration Co., Denver, completed a series of horizontal producers from Bakken in the Williston Basin in Richland County, Mont., at test rates to 410 bbl. of oil per day. That high-volume well, the #14-26H Larson, was completed from Section 26-23n-57e with dual laterals, one northeast and one northwest, and both bottoming in the same location, according to IHS Energy. The #2-25H Coon, in Section 25, also was a dual lateral success. Some five miles northeast in Section 5-23n-58e, the company's #15-5H Johnson dual-lateral flowed oil at a rate of 270 bbl. of oil per day. The northeast lateral on that well bottomed under Section 4. 7 Mammoth Exploration LLC, Billings, Mont., reported an indicated discovery at its #44-7H Miller dual-lateral horizontal wildcat to Bakken in Divide County in northwestern North Dakota. The well is in Section 7-162n-95w, about 2.5 miles southwest of Noonan. Production test results weren't available as the company planned to fracture both the south lateral into Section 18 and the second lateral in Section 7. The nearest production from Bakken is slightly more than five miles south-southeast in Sadler Field. 8 Zinke & Trumbo Inc., Tulsa, Okla., plans another wildcat on its Home Run prospect about eight miles southwest of Alexander in western Mackenzie County, North Dakota. The company's #1-25H Yastrzemski, in Section 25-150n-103w, is scheduled to Madison zones. It's more than three miles from bottomhole of the company's #1-21H Mantle in Forman Butte Field. That well tested at 425 bbl. of oil, 300,000 cu. ft. of gas and 482 bbl. of water daily from an untreated open-hole horizontal section of the Ratcliffe zone of the Madison between 9,373 and 14,240 ft. 9 Billings, Mont.-based Ballard Petroleum Holdings LLC produced 974 bbl. of oil in the first 14 days of production from its #11-36R Bluewater-State wildcat in Section 36-54n-69w in eastern Campbell County in northeastern Wyoming. The well was drilled to a total depth of 5,407 ft. and produced from an undisclosed Muddy zone. Ballard's well is a look-alike to a 1981 dry hole in the same section. The nearest production from Muddy is a mile southeast in Prairie Creek Field, which has produced about 1.55 million bbl. of oil, 395.4 million cu. ft. of gas and 1.11 million bbl. of water since 1960. It still has six active wells. 10 Shell E&P Co.'s Rocky Mountain unit has completed a producer on the Pinedale Anticline about 11 miles south of Pinedale in Sublette County, Wyo., for 21.9 million cu. ft. of gas, four bbl. of condensate and three bbl. of water a day. The company's #14-34D Mesa, in Section 34-32n-109w, produces from 20 fractured zones in Lance-Mesaverde intervals between 7,782 and 13,824 ft. Shell tested through a 32/64-in. choke with 2,450 psi of casing pressure after drilling to a total depth of 13,950 ft. True vertical depth was 13,567 ft. Another well drilled from the pad tested at 13.8 million cu. ft. of gas a day, IHS Energy said. 11 A wildcat in the Washakie Basin rewarded BP with a flow of 892,000 cu. ft. of gas a day in Sweetwater County, Wyo., about 25 miles southwest of Wamsutter. The company's #21-2 Laney Wash, in Section 21-17n-97w, tested from two fractured Lance intervals between 10,629 and 10,892 ft. through a 64/64-in. choke with 300 psi of casing pressure. The company set a bridge plug and closed off the lower Mesaverde section. 12 Petroleum Development Corp., Bridgeport, W.Va., plans a wildcat on the northwestern flank of the Sand Wash Basin in Moffat County, Colo., about 52 miles northwest of Craig. The company has scheduled its #24-34 Coffeepot Springs well, in Section 34-12n-98w, to 13,000 ft. to test Lewis and Almond (Mesaverde) intervals about 3.5 miles west of Powder Wash Field. That field produces mostly from above 8,000 ft., but one well drilled to 13,525 ft. flowed at an initial rate of 832,000 cu. ft. of gas a day with 322 bbl. of water after stimulation. It has not been put on production, said IHS Energy. 13 A wildcat on the northern flank of the Piceance Basin about 22 miles west-southwest of Meeker, in Section 18-1s-97w in Rio Blanco County, Colo., tested 2.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 600 bbl. of water daily for EnCana Corp., Calgary. The #4804 Mallard well found production from Williams Fork between 9,486 and 11,632 ft., Rollins between 11,678 and 11,772 ft. and Corcoran from 11,962 to 12,166 ft. All are Mesaverde zones. Tests were run on a 24/64-in. choke with 1,450 psi of tubing pressure. 14 Additionally, the Tom Brown Inc. subsidiary of EnCana Corp. started drilling operations on the #16-24 Hamilton Mesa-State, the first well ever drilled in Township 43n-14w in southern San Miguel County in southwestern Colorado. The well, in Section 16, will test Cutler and Hermosa gas intervals to 10,380 ft. The well is more than six miles east-northeast of the discovery well for Cocklebur Draw Field, which has produced 2.5 billion cu. ft. from Hermosa since 1985. 15 Rutter & Wilbanks Corp., Midland, Texas, plans a rank wildcat about 12 miles west of Glennallen in southeastern Alaska. The 7,500-ft. well, not yet named, will be drilled in Section 19-4n-3w, Copper River Meridian, some 75 miles north of the port of Valdez. Targets include Tertiary, Cretaceous and Jurassic gas zones. No wells have been drilled in the Copper River Basin since 1983, and there is no current production from the area.