1 ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. plans four wells to test its Antigua project about 26 miles west of Deadhorse on Alaska's North Slope. It will drill the four wildcats between 2006 and 2010 from ice pads on state lands between 2 miles and 7 miles south of the Kuparuk River Unit, site of the closest producing wells. The company will be able to use that unit's Spine Road system as a main highway with ice roads branching to the pads. The wells, all in the Umiat Meridian, are the #1 Antigua in Section 35-10n-10e, the #2 Antigua in Section 19-9n-11e, the #3 Antigua in Section 1-9n-10e and the #4 Antigua in Section 11-9n-10e, according to IHS Energy. 2 The western Cook Inlet in southern Alaska claimed a discovery when Aurora Gas LLC, Anchorage, tested 2 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Beluga at a stepout from the Three Mile Creek Unit discovery well. The company's #2 Three Mile Creek Unit in Section 35-13n-11w, Seward Meridian, reached 205 net ft. of sand and produced through perforations between 2,212 and 4,892 ft. Aurora Gas abandoned operations and will continue testing in the spring. The discovery well for the unit, the #1 Three Mile Creek Unit, tested flowing 5 million cu. ft. of gas from several Beluga intervals. The company also staked another wildcat, the #1 Endeavor in Section 3-5s-15w, Seward Meridian, also looking for natural gas. That well is 6.8 miles west of Fork North Field, a Tyonek producer. 3 Notre Dame Petroleum Co., Bellaire, Texas, plans a wildcat to look for oil and gas at its #1 Holt-Erickson in San Benito County, Calif. The well is in Section 20-13s-6e, MD. The location is 4.5 miles north of an unnamed field that produces from Purisima and 6.1 miles southeast of the town of Hollister. 4 PetroWorld Nevada Corp., the Tulsa, Okla., subsidiary of UK-based PetroWorld Corp., obtained a permit to drill a 5,000-ft. remote wildcat in northwestern Nye County about 11 miles west-northwest of Gabbs, Nev. Gabbs Valley, west of the Paradise Mountain Range, has no producing wells. The #1-12 Cobble-Questa, in Section 12-12n-34e, will be 140 miles west-northwest of the nearest production from fields in Railroad Valley, in the northeastern part of the county, IHS Energy said. 5 St. George, Utah-based Ultimate Exploration & Development LLC staked its second wildcat test of Cambrian Tapeats in Section 35 of previously undrilled Township 41n-7w in northeastern Mohave County, Ariz., about 3 miles south of Colorado City. The #2 Short Creek well will drill to 6,000 ft. The closest production came from Virgin Field in Washington County, Utah, about 23 miles to the north-northwest. That field, discovered in 1907, produced 209,242 bbl. of oil and 30,068 bbl. of water from Triassic Moenkapi at a depth shallower than 1,100 ft. The company plans to drill its #1 Short Creek wildcat to the same target 2.5 miles to the north. 6 Berry Petroleum Co., Bakersfield, Calif., posted two discoveries with wildcats drilled in a nonproducing township 10- to 12 miles southwest of Duchesne in Duchesne County, Utah. Both produced from Green River. The #10-22-56 Taylor Herrick in Section 22-5s-6w tested 163 bbl. of oil equivalent a day at only partial capacity. The #13-14-Nielsen Marsin, a mile to the northeast in Section 14-5s-6w, found 98 bbl. of oil equivalent a day from two of five potential producing intervals. The company plans to optimize production when it installs gas-processing facilities. 7 A discovery produced 2.7 million cu. ft. of gas and 247 bbl. of water from Mancos in 29 days during its first month on line for Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc., Irving, Texas. The company's #6036-14-22 Pine Springs-State is 34 miles south-southwest of Bonanza in Section 36-14s-22e in southern Uintah County, Utah. The 6,230-ft. discovery is about 2 miles southeast of a Mancos producing well in Pine Springs Field. That 6,300-ft. well has produced 66 million cu. ft. of gas from Mancos "B" since late 2002. 8 A pair of remote horizontal wildcats will test Bakken in an area of northeastern Montana with no current production. Clayton Williams Energy Inc., Midland, Texas, will drill the wells between 7 and 15 miles northwest of Scobey in Daniels County. The company has asked for horizontal Bakken spacing units covering all of sections 17 and 18 of Township 36n-46e for one well and all of sections 21 and 22 of 36n-47e. The wells are 4 to 6 miles west-northwest and 2 to 4 miles east, respectively of Four Buttes Field, an abandoned two-well Ratcliffe (Madison) oil pool that produced above 6,200 ft. There is no Bakken production in Daniels County. The Richland County Bakken play is some 70 miles to the south-southeast. 9 Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP, Houston, tested 567 bbl. of oil with 218,000 cu. ft. of gas and 43 bbl. of water a day from a dual-horizontal Bakken well almost 17 miles southeast of Poplar in northwestern Richland County, Mont. The #344-15H 52 BR, in Section 15-25n-52e, produces from two fractured open-hole laterals. The first lateral, from 9,396 to 14,288 ft., extends northwest, while the second lateral, from 9,622 to 12,920 ft., was drilled to the north. 10 Samson Resources Co., Tulsa, Okla., put two horizontal Bakken wildcats in its plans for northwestern North Dakota. It will drill one of the unnamed wells on a 1,280-acre unit containing all of sections 15 and 22 of township 162n-97w in Divide County. There has been no previous drilling in that area between 4 and 6 miles west-southwest of the Juno Field discovery well. That well was completed for 250 bbl. of oil, 200,000 cu. ft. of gas and 50 bbl. of water a day. The other Samson well is 8 miles to the east and a little south. The company will drill in either Section 24 or 25 of Township 162n-96w, about 4 miles southeast of Juno Field's discovery well. 11 A horizontal Bakken discovery rewarded EOG Resources Inc., Houston, when it drilled its #1-24H Nelson Farms in Section 24-156n-92w in Mountrail County, N.D. The wildcat in the previously undrilled township tested at 155 bbl. of oil, 100,000 cu. ft. of gas and 102 bbl. of water at day from perforations between 10,016 and 14,423 ft. 12 Hunt Petroleum (AEC) Inc., Dallas, plans a dual-lateral horizontal wildcat with its #22-1 Hudson Ranch in Section 2-142n-104w in northern Golden Valley County, N.D. The well will test Birdbear (Nisku) with one lateral drilled to the west-southwest and the other drilled to the east-northeast to bottom in Section 1 of the same township. The well is a couple of miles south of the company's #42-26 Stone Ranch discovery, completed for 600 bbl. of oil, 510,000 cu. ft. of gas and 360 bbl. of water a day. 13 Drilling in the Washakie Basin of southwestern Wyoming, Yates Petroleum Corp., Artesia, N.M., tested a Lewis and an Almond interval for 270,000 cu. ft. of gas and 40 bbl. of water a day after fracturing. The company's #1 Strom-State is in Section 16-13n-92w about 7 miles northwest of Baggs in southwestern Carbon County, Wyo. The Lewis zone was between 7,726-58 ft., and the Mesaverde Almond interval was between 9,007 and 9,427 ft. Tests were run through a 24/64-in. choke with 120 psi of flowing tubing pressure. 14 Kaler Oil Co., Gainesville, Texas, will drill one wildcat on the Cambridge Arch of southwestern Nebraska and Mica Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, will drill two more, all in Dundy County and all aimed at Lansing-Kansas City. Mica's #13-20 Richard is in Section 20-1n-36w, some 6 miles east of Benkelman and will go to 4,450 ft. a mile and a half southwest of the Loren Field discovery. The company's #15-22 Parman in Section 22-3n-38w, about 11 miles north-northwest of Benkelman, is about 2 miles southwest of Parman Field. Some 3.5 miles north-northwest of the Parman well, Kaler will drill the #12-4 Lutz in Section 4-3n-38w a half-mile northwest of the northernmost producer in Hoover Field, IHS Energy says. 15 Pioneer Natural Resources (USA) Inc., Irving, Texas, plans a 13,500-ft wildcat to evaluate oil and gas through Pennsylvanian Weber. The company's #43-12 North Fork in Section 12-7n-93w in eastern Moffat County is on the southeastern flank of the Sand Wash Basin about 10 miles west-northwest of Craig. Production in the area generally is from Williams Fork (Mesaverde) coalbed-methane wells shallower than 4,000 ft. The nearest production came from the now-abandoned Deadman Field more than 3 miles south-southeast. The discovery well in that field produced 202.8 million cu. ft. of gas, 963 bbl. of condensate and 940 bbl. of water from Frontier between March 1988 and June 1995.