1 An 18,000-ft. deeper-pool wildcat has been staked by Coastal Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, in the Thomaston Field area of DeWitt County, Texas, reports IHS Energy Group. Coastal's exploratory project is the #1 Dalhardt Goebel in G. DeWitt Survey, A-15. The new location is within a half-mile northwest of an Eocene Wilcox gas well that produced from 7,780-7,832 ft. 2 Helmerich & Payne Inc., Tulsa, continues its success in Texas' Jefferson County, having finaled a discovery-the #1 Klaver-flowing 7.718 million cu. ft. of gas and 432 bbl. of condensate per day from Cibicides hazzardi. The well, in T&NO #5 Survey, A-238, was tested on an 18/64-in. choke after it was perforated at 10,302-16 ft. The company has drilled the #2 Klaver from the same location, but no details have been released. 3 Houston-based Esenjay Exploration Inc. reports it production tested a flow of 9.9 million cu. ft. of gas and 312 bbl. of condensate per day on a 20/64-in. choke at its #1 Dawdy Gas Unit, a discovery in Matagorda County, Texas. The 12,600-ft. wildcat, which was tested into the sales line, was drilled to test Frio sands in a previously undrilled geopressured fault block in the company's Tidehaven 3-D Seismic Project. Esenjay, the operator, owns a 33% working interest and Ocean Energy Inc., Houston, has a 24.5% working interest in the well. The other working interest partners are private companies. 4 An Oligocene Vicksburg discovery completed by ATMIC Inc., Houston, in Fort Bend County, Texas, flowed 3.057 million cu. ft. of gas and 38 bbl. of condensate per day on a 9/64-in. choke, according to IHS Energy Group. The #1 Horte Unit is producing through perforations at 7,251-65 ft. Located in Robert Hodge Survey, A-33, it offsets to the northwest a Needville Field well that yielded oil and gas from shallower Frio. 5 A Van Zandt County, Texas, new-field opener, the Ocean Energy Inc. #1 Tidwell, flowed 122 bbl. of oil, 90,000 cu. ft. of gas and 4 bbl. of water per day from Lower Cretaceous Rodessa. Tested on a 24/64-in. choke, the well is producing through perforations at 9,512-44 ft. The successful wildcat is in M.C. Chireno Survey, A-128, a little less than 2 miles southwest of the closest production in Mount Sylvan Field. 6 A Lower Cretaceous Pettet discovery, the #1 Tiller Mouzon that established a new field in Panola County, Texas, has been finaled by Graward Operating Inc. for a flow of 1.514 million cu. ft. of gas, 15 bbl. of condensate and 2 bbl. of water per day. The new well yielded the flow on a 16/64-in. choke through perforations at 6,172-80 ft. It's in Daniel Tuttle Survey, A-668. Tyler-based Graward has requested the new producing area be named Red Moon Field. 7 The #1 Opal Grey Trust 26, an Oligocene Hackberry producer completed by Mayne & Mertz Inc. in Calcasieu Parish, La., gave up a flow of 5 million cu. ft. of gas and 1,100 bbl. of condensate per day on a 10/64-in. choke. Perforations are at 13,776-13,800 ft. The Southeastern Oil Review notes the well is in Section 26-11s-13w, slightly more than a half-mile southeast of the company's Perry Ridge Field opener, the #1 Stream 25. That well was completed earlier this year flowing 1,106 bbl. of oil and 3.89 million cu. ft. of gas per day from Hackberry at 14,034-54 ft. 8 Successful exploration of Hackberry being carried out by Denver independent HS Resources Inc. in southwestern Louisiana has resulted in the #1 Karine F. Foley being completed for a flow of 305 bbl. of oil and 959,000 cu. ft. of gas per day. IHS Energy Group reports the company perforated at 9,284-88 ft. and tested on a 9/64-in. choke at the discovery, in Section 9-8s-6w, Jefferson Davis Parish. 9 Union Oil Co. of California has made a discovery at the #1 State Lease 15211 offshore St. Mary Parish, La. Unocal perforated in Bigenerina 2 at 10,806-17 ft. and tested on a 19/64-in. choke, recovering a flow of 9.427 million cu. ft. of gas, 19 bbl. of condensate and 48 bbl. of water per day. The new producer is about 2.5 miles southwest of Eugene Island Block 18 Field. Meanwhile, onshore in St. Mary Parish, The Meridian Resource & Exploration Co., Houston, is set to drill to 19,000 ft. to test Operculina at its #1 Avoca 5. The new wildcat is to be directionally drilled from a surface location in Section 5-17s-13e to a bottomhole location less than a quarter-mile to the northeast in the same section. 10 Two deep wildcats are scheduled to be drilled offshore Plaquemines Parish in the Louisiana state waters portion of the West Delta area, says IHS Energy Group. Middle Miocene Cibicides carstensi is the objective of the Ocean Energy Inc. #1 State Lease 16033 that's scheduled to be drilled to 20,738 ft. on Block 12. Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, plans to drill to 17,500 ft. at its #1 State Lease 16349 on Block 51. 11 A high rate of flow-2,429 bbl. of oil and 5 million cu. ft. of gas per day-was reported for the CXY Energy Offshore Inc. #A-6 OCS-G-4085 on West Cameron Block 170 in the Gulf of Mexico, according to partner Remington Oil & Gas Corp., Dallas. Remington says that wireline logs indicate more than 150 ft. of true vertical thickness oil and gas pay in three sands at the well. Pipe has been set on bottom at 17,125 ft., and the production test reported was of the lowermost sand. Remington also notes that CXY is drilling below 14,408 ft. toward a projected depth of 16,465 ft. at the #3 OCS-G-4085, also on Block 170. Remington says it owns a 20% working interest in the #A-6 well and a 42% working interest in the #3 test. CXY, also of Dallas, operates both tests and owns a 78% and 56% working interest in the #A-6 well and #3 test, respectively. 12 Remington Oil & Gas Corp. says the W&T Offshore Inc. #1 OCS-G-15156, in which it has a 37.5% working interest, is an oil discovery on East Cameron Block 345. Metairie, La., independent W&T Offshore, owner of a 50% working interest and operator of the well, logged 30 ft. of oil pay below 8,000 ft. The discovery is awaiting platform installation. Magnum Hunter Resources Inc., Irving, Texas, owns the remaining 12.5% working interest. 13 Another Gulf of Mexico discovery in which Magnum Hunter Resources Inc. is involved is the Remington Oil & Gas Corp. #1 OCS-G-17179 on High Island Block A-441. Wireline logs and formation tests indicate more than 100 ft. of true vertical gas pay thickness in a single sand. Pipe has been set and completion operations are under way at the 8,700-ft. well. Remington, the operator, owns a 75% working interest in the well and Magnum Hunter has the remaining 25% interest. 14 Amerada Hess Corp., New York City, is drilling the #1 OCS-G-20831, a remote wildcat on Alaminos Canyon Block 195. IHS Energy Group notes the project is in 5,270 ft. of water. The drillsite is almost 25 miles southwest of Exxon Mobil's Hoover (Block 25) Field discovery-the #1-OCS-G-10380-that was drilled in 1997 in 4,795 ft. of water. The 13,030-ft. discovery encountered more than 100 net ft. of pay. Hoover Field was brought online this past summer. 15 Fina Oil & Chemical Co., Dallas, tapped Cambro-Ordovician Knox for a flow of 5.7 million cu. ft. of gas per day on an 18/64-in. choke at the #1 Love Heirs in Section 22-19n-12e, Oktibbeha County, Miss. The Southeastern Oil Review says that Fina perforated between 14,387-14,594 ft. and is preparing to complete the well, on the north flank of Maben Field. 16 Key Production Co. Inc., New Orleans, is testing after perforating in Jurassic Cotton Valley at the #1 Crosby Estate 5-2, an indicated discovery in Section 5-7n-14w, Covington County, Miss. According to the Southeastern Oil Review, Key has taken over operations from Remington Oil & Gas Corp., who drilled the wildcat. Pipe is set at a total depth of 18,330 ft. at the prospect, 2 miles southeast of Cotton Valley production in Collins Field. The test was originally scheduled to go to 21,100 ft. to evaluate Jurassic Smackover. 17 Camp Creek Field in Jones County, Miss., was extended a half-mile to the south when Houston-based EOG Resources Inc. completed the #1 Marian Walker pumping 115 bbl. of oil per day from Lower Cretaceous Hosston. According to the Southeastern Oil Review, the successful stepout, in Section 6-7n-10w, is producing through several perforated intervals between 14,132-15,226 ft.