1 ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. will drill a wildcat in Section 11-19n-20w, Umiat Meridian, on the North Slope of Alaska. The #2 Intrepid, on its Intrepid prospect in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is about 18 miles south of Barrow and four miles south of Walakpa gas field. This is the first of three wells planned by the company, according to IHS Inc. The #1 Intrepid will be drilled in Section 6-19n-19w and #3 Intrepid in Section 22-19n-20w, but these haven't yet been permitted. The company just completed its #1 Noatak some 50 miles west-northwest of Nuiqsut in Section 22-12n-5w, Umiat Meridian.



2 The government issued a permit for a fourth wildcat in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to the FEX LP subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary. The company plans to drill its #6 Aklaq from a surface location in Section 25-16n-11w, Umiat Meridian, as soon as the rig finishes drilling at FEX's #2 Amaguq in Section 18-12n-15w. The company contracted another rig, which is drilling #1 Aklaqyaaq wildcat in Section 23-14n-14w. The #2 Aklaq, in Section 29-15n-12w, was the first wildcat in the series. No activity has taken place at #1 Aklaq in Section 15-15n-11w. The drillsites are generally about 30 miles south of Cape Simpson, 64 miles southeast of Barrow and 154 miles west of Deadhorse. FEX previously said it would drill 11 wells in this exploration and evaluation program.



3 Pacific Coast Exploration LLC, Yuba City, Calif., staked its #1-4 Sausalito School wildcat in Section 4-23s-26e to look for oil and gas in Tulare County, Calif. The wellsite is 6.3 miles east of the town of Pixley and 6.1 miles west of Deer Creek Field, which produces from Santa Margarita sand.



4 Two wildcats are under way in Kern County, Calif. Pacific Coast Exploration will drill its #1-30 Opaque in Section 30-27s-20e to look for oil in Point of Rocks sand at 1,400 ft. The well is a reentry to one drilled to 947 ft. and abandoned. The well is 11 miles southwest of Lost Hills and more than 0.75-mile northwest of Antelope Hills Field, a Temblor pool. The Nahabedian Exploration Group LLC, Ojai, Calif., plans the other wildcat to an undisclosed depth to look for oil. The #1 Jack Hamar Deep is set for Section 24-28s-21e.



5 Eagle Exploration Inc., Reno, Nev., repermitted its #2 Rio Blanco a short distance east of the original site in Section 31-10n-62e in Nye County, Nev. The remote wildcat is in White River Valley, some 25 miles east-northeast of production in Eagle Springs Field in Railroad Valley. Last fall, #1 Sage, which was drilled, plugged and abandoned about six miles west-northwest, recovered shows of oil in the Chainman shale. That well was projected to 8,000 ft.



6 An aggressive exploratory campaign will test the Green River formation for gas potential for Berry Petroleum Co., Bakersfield, Calif., in the Lake Canyon area of Duchesne County, Utah. Among wells planned to depths from 5,970 to 6,145 ft. at locations about 12 miles southwest of the town of Duchesne are #4-16-56 LC Tribal and #2-16D LC Tribal, both in Section 16-5s-6w; #3-17-56 LC Tribal and #1-17-56 LC Tribal, both in Section 17-6s-6w; and #7-3-56 LC Tribal in Section 3-5s-6w. The first four are north and northwest of the company's #15-16-56 Wilcox-Fee, completed last fall for 41 bbl. of oil, 54,000 cu. ft. of gas and 60 bbl. of water a day from Green River perforations between 3,328 and 4,850 ft. The latest of the five is 1.5 miles northwest of an abandoned Green River well in Indian Canyon Field that tested for 9 million cu. ft. of gas and 5,521 bbl. of water in 1978.



7 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, plans a wildcat about 17 miles southeast of Duchesne in southeastern Duchesne County in northeastern Utah. The #5-03GR Gilsonite Draw will test the Green River formation to 5,600 ft. in irregular Section 3-10s-15e. The nearest production is on the southern flank of Castle Peak/Antelope Creek/Monument Butte Field, about two miles north, which produces oil from Green River, according to IHS Inc. records. The same distance east-southeast, the discovery well for Mathews Field tested for 40 bbl. of oil, 50,000 cu. ft. of gas and 73 bbl. of water a day from four fractured Green River intervals between 3,932 and 5,300 ft.



8 Denver-based Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. brought in a discovery at its #2-13 Larsh in Section 13-34n-56e in eastern Sheridan County, Mont. The wildcat flowed at an initial rate of 232 bbl. of oil from Red River B and C. The drillstem test of the B zone between 11,017-81 ft. recovered 3,025 ft. of highly gas-cut oil, 563 ft. of mud and 82 ft. of highly gas-cut emulsion. Kodiak put the 11,233-ft. well onstream in early February and produced 2,849 bbl. of oil by the end of the month. The discovery is less than a mile east-northeast of the discovery well for Wrangler North Field.



9 Chaparral Energy LLC, Oklahoma City, recovered 215 bbl. of oil, 168,000 cu. ft. of gas and 287 bbl. of water a day from its #1-18H Olivia Petersen horizontal wildcat in northern Richland County, Mont. The well, in Section 18-25n-56e, about 15 miles south of Culbertson, produced from two fractured Bakken laterals. The first extends from 10,383 to 14,305 ft. measured depth south-southwest. The second lateral reaches from 9,682 to 14,724 ft. southeast. A third lateral extends south-southwest from 10,662 to 14,472 ft.



10 The Bakken play in North Dakota continues to grow with almost continuous discoveries. Among the latest, Burlington Resources Oil & Gas LP, now part of ConocoPhillips Inc., completed #14-13H Veeder about 15 miles east of Watford City in Section 13-150n-96w in eastern McKenzie County. The horizontal wildcat produced from two horizontal laterals, one northeast and the other southeast, with a bottomhole location in Section 24. The well produced 15,566 bbl. of oil, 11.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 3,145 bbl. of water during its first three months onstream after an initial production rate of 371 bbl. of oil, 469,000 cu. ft. of gas and 15 bbl. of water a day, according to state records cited by IHS Inc.



11 Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., tested Bakken for oil from two horizontal laterals at its #1-9H Cerkoney in Section 9-141n-98w in eastern Billings County, N.D., but hasn't released completion details. Some two miles west-southwest, the company brought in #1-18H Gloria, another horizontal discovery, flowing 164 bbl. of oil, 63,000 cu. ft. of gas and two bbl. of water a day from two Bakken laterals. That well is in Section 18 of the same township and has laterals running south-southeast into Section 19 and north-northeast but remaining in Section 18. Some two miles north of #1-9H Cerkoney well, Headington Oil LP completed its #44X-32 Obrigewitsch as a trilateral Bakken discovery in Section 32-142n-98w flowing 81 bbl. of oil, 51,000 cu. ft. of gas and 62 bbl. of water a day.



12 Wyoming's Washakie Basin provided a Mesaverde discovery producing 433,000 cu. ft. of gas and 290 bbl. of water a day for Yates Petroleum Corp., Artesia, N.M. The company drilled its #1 Naismith-State in Section 17-16n-92w in southwestern Carbon County about 23 miles southeast of Wamsutter. It completed the well in two fractured Almond intervals at 7,108 to 7,286 ft. and 7,335 to 7,556 ft. and one fractured Ericson zone from 7,632 to 7,771 ft. with 500 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The company drilled a similar well to 8,025 ft. last year a half-mile northeast, but it hasn't reported results.



13 Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp., Denver, tested its #1-33 NT-Federal for 2 million cu. ft. of gas a day in southern Sweetwater County, Wyo., about 40 miles southeast of Rock Springs. The Vermillion Basin wildcat, in Section 33-14n-100w, reached 14,504 ft. to produce from one overpressured Frontier zone and eight Baxter intervals after fracturing. The well has tested at sales rates between 1- and 2 million cu. ft. of gas a day on various chokes.



14 H&M Petroleum Corp., Colorado Springs, Colo., plans to drill a wildcat to 6,212 ft. on the northeastern flank of the Denver-Julesburg Basin in Logan County, Colo., about 18 miles southeast of Kimball, Neb. The #6 Willie Jo will look at both D and J sands in irregular Section 21 in partial Township 12n-55w. The nearest production is 1.25 miles south-southwest in Ramrod Field, a J sand pool. H&M also drilled #1 Willie Jo across the border in Section 18 of partial Township 12n-54w in Kimball County, Neb. That well tested for 116 bbl. of oil and 124 bbl. of water a day from D sand perforations between 5,946-87 ft.