1 ConocoPhillips will drill the #1 Antigua wildcat in Section 35-10n-10e, Umiat Meridian, about 26 miles west of Deadhorse on the North Slope of Alaska. The company scheduled the well to test Kuparuk near the southeast flank of the Kuparuk River Unit. The company drilled the #1J-14 Silvertip about six miles north. According to IHS Energy, it plugged that horizontal test. ConocoPhillips plans three more exploratory tests on the Antigua project, the #2 Antigua in Section 10-9n-11e, the #3 Antigua in Section 1-9n-10e and the #4 Antigua in Section 11-9n-10e. 2 After importing the first jackup drilling rig in Alaska's Cook Inlet in 14 years, Houston-based Escopta Oil and South African partner Centurion Gold Holdings Inc. will drill the #1 East Kitchen wildcat to 17,000 ft. this summer. The #1 Kitchen well will follow next spring. The companies haven't yet filed permits for the wells but they plan for five on their 130,000 acres of offshore property. The wells will be north of Nikiski and east of Middle Ground Shoal Field. The properties are in Township 7n-13w, 9n-10, 15n-8w and 10n-11w. 3 El Paso Natural Gas Co., Houston, staked its fourth stratigraphic test near Eloy, southeast of Phoenix, Ariz. The 8,000-ft. #1-21 El Paso is in Section 21-7s-8e, Pinal County, and will evaluate potential for gas storage. It scheduled three additional stratigraphic tests last year. 4 Houston-based EOG Resources Inc. plans a wildcat to 9,054 ft. in a nonproducing township in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah. The company's #1-26D Argyle is about 19 miles north of Sunnyside in Section 26-11s-13e in southern Duchesne County. It will evaluate Wasatch, Mesaverde and Mancos gas potential. The closest production is four miles southwest at the #1-16 Keel Ranch Unit discovery well in northern Carbon County. That well produced 13.9 million cu. ft. of gas from Mancos between 8,084 and 8,134 ft. between February 1982 and December 1985, IHS Energy reports. 5 Delta Petroleum Corp., Denver, will look for gas in the Paradox formation on the northern edge of the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah. The wells are between two and 14 miles south and southeast of the town of Green River in Grand County. The #36-11 Greentown-State is in Section 36-21s-16e and scheduled to 9,800 ft. The #32-42 Greentown-State, in Section 32-22s-17e, will target the same depth. The #25-12 Salt Valley-State, in Section 25-22s-19e, will drill to 8,300 ft. The #36-11 well is 10 miles north-northwest of Salt Wash Field, while the #32-42 well is three miles north of the field. The #25-12 well is 14 miles east-southeast of the field. 6 The state of Montana issued permits for two remote 5,500-ft. wildcats to Coastal Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Coastal Caribbean Oil & Minerals Ltd., Apalachicola, Fla., for a nonproducing area of northwestern Valley County. The #10-18 Federal 18-36-37, in Section 18-36n-37e, is about two miles southwest of the #3-8 Federal-8-36n-37e. Both wells will look for pay from Charles, Ratcliffe, Mission Canyon, Lodgepole and Bakken between 23 and 24 miles west of Opheim and six to eight miles south of the Canadian border. The sites are some 25 miles northeast of Cretaceous gas production from shallow zones in the Bowdoin Dome area of Phillips County. 7 A horizontal wildcat in northeastern Montana delivered 381 bbl. of oil, 196,000 cu. ft. of gas and 45 bbl. of water a day to Headington Oil LP, Dallas. The company's #31X-2 Steinbeisser wildcat is about 2.5 miles west of Sidney in Section 2-22n-58e in Richland County. It produced through a fractured Bakken interval between 10,558 and 19,727 ft. in a lateral extended south into Section 11. The company drilled the #42X-4 Atchison about two miles west a year ago. That dual-lateral well pumped 345 bbl. of oil, 155,000 cu. ft. of gas and 69 bbl. of water a day, also from Bakken. In the same county, the company tested its #11X-18 Swigart in Section 18-22n-60e for 666 bbl. of oil, 413,000 cu. ft. of gas and 120 bbl. of oil a day from dual laterals. 8 Amerada Hess Corp., New York, plans a horizontal wildcat to Bakken six miles north-northeast of White Earth in an undrilled township in western Mountrail County, N.D. The #4-11H Enget is in Section 4-157n-93w. The nearest production is from White Earth Field, a Madison oil producer. The closest production from Bakken is almost 12 miles northeast in Section 16-159n-93w. That well showed an initial potential of 118 bbl. of oil, 82,000 cu. ft. of gas and 95 bbl. of water a day from an openhole Bakken lateral. 9 A horizontal wildcat resulted in an oil discovery for Petro-Hunt LLC, Dallas, as its #6B-2-1H USA about seven miles west of Alexander in western North Dakota. The well in Section 6-150n-102w in western McKenzie County produced from a single lateral drilled to 15,332 ft. in Ratcliffe (Madison). The operator did not disclose the volume. The discovery is 1.5 miles northwest of the #1-8H Gonzalez, completed in Ratcliff for 486 bbl. of oil, 349,000 cu. ft. of gas and 530 bbl. of water a day. 10 Denver-based Duncan Oil Inc. will look for pay at a remote wildcat 15 miles from the nearest production about 18 miles northwest of Hebron in southeastern Dunn County, N.D. The #1-27 Hauck, in Section 27-142n-92w, is south of production from Halliday Field, which produced oil from Duperow, and 16 miles southwest of Dodge Field, a single-well Red River producer in Mercer County, according to IHS Energy. 11 GPE Energy Inc., Englewood, Colo., received a permit for a wildcat to 1,700 ft. to test Upper Cretaceous Shannon in western Harding County, S.D. The company's #21-1 Gold Point-State is in Section 21-18n-2e. There has been no previous drilling in the township. The well is 4.5 miles northeast of West Short Pine Hills Field, which has produced 20.1 billion cu. ft. of gas and 17,750 bbl. of water from Shannon at a depth shallower than 1,600 ft. A dry hole was drilled 2.5 miles west-southwest. GPE Energy, a subsidiary of Gold Point Energy Corp., Vancouver, British Columbia, has two drilling programs in northwestern South Dakota with a $500,000, two-well program planned for one area and a $3.1-million, four-well program planned for the other. 12 Questar Corp., Salt Lake City, tested gas at a daily rate of 4.46 million cu. ft. with 36 bbl. of condensate at its #3-15D Sidewinder exploratory well on the western flank of the Pinedale Anticline in southwestern Wyoming. It drilled the directional well within Section 15-31n-109w about 14 miles south of Pinedale in Sublette County. The well produced from seven fractured zones in Lance from 8,192 to 11,073 ft. through 24/64-in. choke. It used bridge plugs to close off four deeper fractured levels from 11,240 to 12,826 ft. It drilled the well a mile west of a Lance producer in Pinedale Field. That well, the #11-14 Riverside, tested at 9.5 million cu. ft. of gas, 62 bbl. of condensate and 658 bbl. of water a day. 13 A third deep wildcat continues a program on the western flank of the Hanna Basin more than 11 miles southeast of Sinclair by Warren E&P Inc., Casper, Wyo., IHS Energy reports. The company permitted the #2284 SE 18 Federal in Section 18-22n-84 w in central Carbon County, Wyo. The well will test Dakota to 16,100 ft. The company also permitted a northwest offset to the same depth and an earlier well a mile west, also to Dakota. Bottom of Form 14 Wexpro Co., a subsidiary of Questar Corp., Salt Lake City, picked a discovery at its #5 Hiawatha Deep in the Vermillion Basin straddling the Wyoming-Colorado border. The well produced 1.82 million cu. ft. of gas and 613 bbl. of water a day from Baxter/Frontier in Lot 7 or partial Section 15 of partial Township 12n-100w in Moffat County, Colo. Production came through a 64/64-in. choke from perforations between 10,394 and 13,625 ft. after fracturing. Wexpro drilled the well to 14,030 ft. as an offset to its #3 Hiawatha Deep Unit. That well has produced more than 31.8 billion cu. ft. of gas and 117,900 bbl. of water from Jurassic Nugget between 14,519 and 14,760 ft. since January 1984. Other nearby wells produce from shallower Wasatch, Fort Union, Lance and Mesaverde zones. 15 EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Calgary, completed its 11,480-ft. #2 Left Fork 6502 as a discovery producing 841,000 cu. ft. of gas with no condensate or water from Mancos "B" about 22 miles southeast of Rangely, Colo. The Piceance Basin well is in Section 23-2s-99w in western Rio Blanco County. It produced from a fractured zone between 10,642 and 10,769 ft. through a 20/64-in. choke with 500 psi of flowing tubing pressure.