1 Oil companies have asked for two new units on Alaska's North Slope, according to IHS Energy. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Texas, wants a designation for Jacob's Ladder oil and gas field approximately four miles southeast of the Prudhoe Bay Unit. The unit covers all or parts of townships 8n and 9n and ranges 16e to 18e, Umiat Meridian, with 18 oil and gas leases. At about the same time, ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., Houston, submitted an application for a designation for its Cronus Unit, which includes two leases about 10 miles southeast of Nuiqsut in all or portions of sections 1 through 18 of Township 18n-6e, Umiat Meridian. It plans a well in the unit this winter. The nearest production is from ConocoPhillips' Meltwater Pool in the Kuparuk River Unit, some two miles east-southeast. 2 Aurora Gas LLC, Anchorage, confirmed its Lone Creek Field discovery as the #3 Lone Creek tested at 16.4 million cu. ft. of gas a day. The well, in Section 18-12n-11w, Seward Meridian, southern Alaska, is 0.5-mile north offset to the #1 Lone Creek discovery. That well was completed in 1998 for 10.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Upper Tyonek between 2,402-55 ft. through a 33/64-in. choke when it was plugged back from 11,487 ft. In other activity, the company planned to drill the #1 Aspen in Section 33-12n-11w, Seward Meridian, to Tyonek at 3,600 ft. That well is 1.6 miles northwest of Tyonek, Alaska, and nearly 0.75-mile north of Moquawkie Field, a Tyonek producer. 3 Aspen Exploration Corp., Denver, conducted two successful flow tests on its northern California properties. The Morris #12-3, in Section 12-14n-1w in Colusa County in the Sacramento Valley, tested at a stabilized rate of 2.18 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Forbes perforations. In Section 32-23n-3w in Tehama County, the company's Merrill #31-1 tested gas at a stabilized rate of 700,000 cu. ft. a day from a single Forbes interval. The 4,875-ft. well found some 200 ft. of potential net gas pay in various Forbes and Kione zones. 4 A wildcat in Railroad Valley in Nye County in eastern Nevada showed significant hydrocarbon saturation on mud logs in a 100-ft. interval within a net 385-ft. section of highly fractured Devonian Lime. Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co., Bakersfield, Calif., drilled its #1-32 Midland Trail about 31 miles south-southwest of Currant in Section 32-6n-56e. The company is studying the well data before deciding which of six intervals to test. The prospect is about 11 miles southwest of Grant Canyon Field, a prolific field that produced from Devonian Guilmette/Simonson, according to IHS Energy. 5 Dominion Exploration & Production Inc., Houston, tapped Mesaverde to produce 47.7 million cu. ft. of gas, 142 bbl. of condensate and 2,972 bbl. of water during April at its #12-1H LCU in Section 1-11s-20e, Uintah County, Utah. The Uinta Basin well is on the Little Canyon Unit about 15 miles south of Ouray. The well is 1.5 miles southeast of two other Dominion-operated Wasatch/Mesaverde gas wells on the southwestern flank of Natural Buttes Field. The company plans at least eight more wells in sections 1 and 2. 6 An undrilled township in Carbon County, Utah, rates a third wildcat test by Stone Energy Corp., Lafayette, La., in a Ferron sand campaign. The company will drill its #14-28 Dugout Creek-Federal to 4,500 ft. in Section 28-13s-12e, some 10 miles northeast of Wellington and six miles east of production in Helper Field, in which recent wells produce from Ferron coal. Stone has staked two more wildcat locations three and four miles south and southeast. 7 Westport Oil & Gas Co. LP, Denver, a unit of Kerr-McGee Corp., brought in a 982-bbl.-per-day oil producer at a dual-lateral horizontal Bakken discovery in eastern Richland County, Mont. The company's #34-22H Stenbeisser also produced 227,000 cu. ft. of gas and 282 bbl. of water a day in Section 22-23n-57e. Lateral #1 extended from 10,541 to 15,653 ft. south-southeast to a bottomhole location in Section 27, while Lateral #2 reached north-northeast and remained in Section 22, IHS Energy says. The surface location is 0.5-mile east of the nearest production. 8 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, plans a remote wildcat to evaluate Pennsylvanian Tensleep in Section 14-5s-20e in northwestern Carbon County, Mont. The company's #1-14 Cottonwood Coulee, about 14 miles north of Red Lodge, will drill to 9,000 ft. in the nonproducing township. The nearest production is in Dry Creek and Dry Creek West fields approximately 10 miles south-southeast, where oil and gas come from upper Cretaceous intervals shallower than 2,000 ft., Frontier at 4,600 ft. and Greybull shallower than 6,600 ft. 9 The JMG Exploration Inc. subsidiary of JED Oil Inc., Calgary, drilled a discovery in Section 22-162n-94w in western Burke County, N.D., but hasn't yet released test details. The company's #4-22H Burau is a single-lateral Bakken well, and the company has asked the state for field rules and temporary spacing for an oil field, according to IHS Energy. The lateral reached south to a bottomhole location in Section 27. The nearest production comes from the discovery well for Larson Field some 0.75-mile southwest. That well produces from Red River. 10 Ansbro Petroleum Co. LLC, Denver, completed an apparent discovery in an openhole horizontal Bakken section at its #44-31H Miller about 20 miles northwest of Dickinson in Dunn County, N.D. The well is in Section 31-143n-97w. The lateral leg extended northwest in the same section. The company asked state authorities for temporary spacing for a field at the site. The nearest production from Bakken is four miles northwest. 11 The hot hand in the Madden Anticline-Waltman Field area in Natrona County, Wyo., was dealt to Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, as the company completed two discoveries. The #32-17-38-88 Hitchcock Draw Unit, east of Madden Field and about 55 miles northwest of Casper in Section 1-38n-88w, was completed in Lance between 14,455 and 14,962 ft. The rate was not disclosed. The well is 4.5 miles east-southeast of Madden Field. Farther south, near Waltman Field, the company discovered the #14-18 Bullfrog Unit in 18-36n-86w and tested gas at a rate of 17.8 million cu. ft. of gas a day with 30 bbl. of water from a Muddy interval below the Owl Creek Thrust. The company drilled that well to 19,364 ft. and closed off a deeper Lakota zone. 12 Samson Resources Co., Tulsa, tested gas at a rate of 3.04 million cu. ft. of gas and 38 bbl. of water daily at its #23-7 Cepo-Federal in Section 7-14n-95w in southeastern Sweetwater County, Wyo. The well produces from Cepo Sand (Lewis) from 13,229-96 ft. In other activity, the company has two wildcats in its plans at 22 and 28 miles west-northwest of Baggs, Wyo., in the Washakie Basin. Samson also will look for Lewis gas at 12,800 ft. in the #13-11 Neptune in Section 11-13n-95w, and eight miles northwest at the #14-6 Barricade Unit at 13,400 ft. in Section 6-14n-95w, according to IHS Energy research. The Neptune well is 1.5 miles north-northeast of a fractured Lewis well that tested at 302,000 cu. ft. of gas, three bbl. of condensate and five bbl. of water at day from an interval between 12,628 and 12,868 ft. The Barricade Unit well is 1.5 miles north-northeast of the #1-13E Powder Mountain Unit discovery that tested at 3.24 million cu. ft. of gas and 22 bbl. of water a day from Lewis. 13 Independent J.D. Gregory, Kimball, Neb., permitted a wildcat on the northeastern flank of the Denver-Julesburg Basin 10 miles south-southwest of Potter, Neb. The company will evaluate D and J sands to 5,700 ft. in its #26-41 Krusemrk in Section 26-13n-53w in southwestern Cheyenne County. The well is more than a mile southwest of abandoned Liberty Field, which produced 26,000 bbl. of oil and 2.1 million cu. ft. of gas with 13,000 bbl. of water from D and J sands between 1961-87. 14 Wichita, Kan., independent Berexco Inc. plans to drill the #1-15 Margaret wildcat in Section 15-2n-37w in southeastern Dundy County, Neb., to evaluate Lansing-Kansas City zones to 4,525 ft. The Cambridge Arch test is 0.5-mile southeast of the abandoned discovery well for Hobbs Field. 15 Petroleum Development Corp., Bridgeport, W.Va., found gas in Lance, Fox Hills and Mesaverde at its $4.8-million #24-34 Coffeepot Springs wildcat in Section 34-12n-98w in northwestern Moffat County, Colo. The company did not reveal test rates from the Sand Wash Basin well, only that it produced from intervals between 9,450 and 12,000 ft. It has shut in the well until it can build a flowline to the nearest pipeline.