1 A 6,500-ft. wildcat has been scheduled by True Oil LLC in Railroad Valley in eastern Nevada. No objectives have been disclosed by the Casper, Wyo.-based independent. The #43-36 DY-Federal is in Section 36-7n-56e of northeastern Nye County. According to IHS Inc., the location is approximately three miles southwest of Grant Canyon Field and three miles south-southwest of Bacon Flat Field, both Devonian Guilmette oil pools. Grant Canyon Field has produced 21.1 million bbl. of oil and 6.7 million bbl. of water since 1983. Bacon Flat Field was opened in 1981 and has produced a total of 1 million bbl. of oil and 4 million bbl. of water from Guilmette.

2 A horizontal producer has been finaled by Citation Oil & Gas Corp. in Montana’s Bowes Field and initially pumped 248 bbl. of 20.6-gravity oil and 62 bbl. of water per day. The #G631H Bowes Sawtooth Unit is in Section 31-32n-20e, western Blaine County. It produces from an acidized horizontal lateral in Jurassic Sawtooth extending northwestward from 3,443 to 6,678 ft. The top of Sawtooth was logged at 3,545 ft., and a production liner was set in the lateral between 3,454 ft. and total depth. True vertical total depth was 3,460 ft. Citation is based in Houston.

3 Abraxas Petroleum Corp. of San Antonio has horizontally redrilled and recompleted a well in eastern Wyoming’s Brooks Draw Field. The #5H Peregrine initially pumped about 115 bbl. of oil per day. In Section 16-38n-67w, Converse County, the well produces from a 3,300-ft. lateral in Turner after 10-stage fracture stimulation. The lateral extends from a kick-off point at 7,606 ft. west-northwestward to 11,530 ft. in the same section. Abraxas owns a 100% working interest in the #5H Peregrine.

4 In a previously nonproducing township in Montana, Petro-Hunt LLC has completed a wildcat that initially flowed 376 bbl. of 42.5-gravity oil, 197,000 cu. ft. of gas and 2 bbl. of water per day. The #20D-2-1 Charles Senner is in Section 20-19n-54e, Dawson County, and was tested in a treated Red River C zone interval at 11,026-39 ft. Flowing tubing pressure was 640 psi and was drilled and cased to a total depth of 11,425 ft. The discovery taps a stratigraphic trap and has a producing mechanism of solution gas. Log tops include Dawson Bay at 10,217 ft.; Winnipegosis at 10,322 ft.; Interlake at 10,380 ft.; Stonewall at 10,708 ft; Gunton at 10,759 ft.; Stony Mountain shale at 10,819 ft.; Red River, 10,852 ft.; Red River C anhydrite, 10,968 ft.; and Red River C laminated at 10,980 ft. Petro-Hunt’s headquarters are in Dallas.

5 Near Williston, N.D., Brig­ham Oil & Gas LP has completed a horizontal Middle Bakken discovery flowing approximately 2,264 bbl. of oil equivalent per day. The #1-H Strand 16-9 is in Section 16-155n-102w, southwestern Williams County. Testing occurred in a two-section-long lateral in Middle Bakken after a 26-stage fracture stimulation. Initial production during an early 24-hour flowback period was 1,947 bbl. of oil and 1.9 million cu. ft. of gas daily. Further completion details are not yet available. Austin-based Brigham has a 21% working interest in the Strand discovery.

6 Tulsa independent Zenergy Operating Co. LLC completed a horizontal wildcat on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The initial flow reported to IHS Inc. was 791 bbl. of oil, 604,000 cu. ft. of gas and 330 bbl. of water per day. The #14-2 Dakota-3 TAT is in Section 2-149n-93w, Dunn County. The well produces from a fractured horizontal lateral in Middle Bakken extending from 10,948 ft., 10,731 ft. true vertical, north-northwestward to a bottomhole location in the same section. Flow was measured through a 14/64-in. choke with a tubing pressure of 2,025 psi. The discovery was drilled on a 320-acre spacing unit and has been shut in until a gas pipeline is completed in 2010.

7 Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. of Denver completed two wildcat horizontal Middle Bakken discoveries in a previously nonproducing township on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Oil flowed at an initial rate of 1,187 bbl. of oil and 606,000 cu. ft. of gas daily. The #1-22-10H Charging Eagle is in Section 22-147n-92w, Dunn County. It was tested in a 9,949-ft. horizontal lateral in Middle Bakken following a 15-stage fracture stimulation and drilling to 20,885 ft. Kodiak holds a 55% working interest and a 45% net revenue interest in this longer lateral well. From the same drillpad, Kodiak completed #1-22-23H Charging Eagle that initially flowed 769 bbl. of oil and 452,000 cu. ft. of gas daily from a 6,620-ft. horizontal Middle Bakken lateral, following fracture stimulation in 13 stages. The company holds a 60% working interest and a 50% net revenue interest in this shorter lateral well. Kodiak has requested temporary spacing, field limits and field rules for the two Charging Eagle discoveries from the North Dakota Industrial Commission.

8 Whiting Petroleum Corp. has reentered #32-4HBKCE Federal and hopes to establish the first horizontal Three Forks-Sanish production in Bicentennial Field along the Billings Nose in Golden Valley County, N.D., according to the Rocky Mountain Oil Journal. There is currently no Three Forks production in this field or county. The well is in Section 4-143n-103w and will be drilled to 18,369 ft. According to IHS Inc., the well will be fracture stimulated in 16 stages and will test an 8,550-ft. lateral in Three Forks. The well was originally drilled and completed by Whiting in 2004 as a horizontal Birdbear producer. Denver-based Whiting is also planning a Three Forks-Sanish horizontal, #11-13TFH Dry Creek, in nearby Section 13-143n-103w of Golden Valley County, to a planned depth of 20,222 ft.

9 In Burke County, N.D., Cirque Resources LP has completed a horizontal wildcat. The initial flow was 614 bbl. of 43-gravity oil and 559 bbl. of load water per day. The #32-16H Trippell, Section 32-160n-90w, produces from a horizontal lateral in Middle Bakken. The well was tested following 15 stages of fracture stimulation between 8,824 and 13,435 ft. Flow was measured through a 22/64-in. choke with a tubing pressure of 400 psi and a casing pressure of 480 psi. The new discovery, the first producer in its township, was drilled two miles north-northwest of Vanville Field, a Madison oil pool. Cirque is based in Denver.

10 A Niobrara discovery is flowing an average 1,770 bbl. of oil with 367,875 cu. ft. of gas daily. The horizontal wildcat was drilled by EOG Resources Inc., Houston, in Section 1-11n-63w, Weld County, Colo. The #EOG 2-01H Jake produced 14,156 bbl. of oil and 294 million cu. ft. of gas during October 2009. It was set up as an 11,838-ft. horizontal test of Niobrara in a nonproducing township and drilled southeastward to a bottomhole location in Section 6-11n-62w. Additional details about the western D-J Basin flank completion were not made available.

11 ExxonMobil has resumed drilling on two wells, #15-PTU and #16-PTU, started earlier this year at Point Thomson Field on Alaska’s North Slope, and will reach total depth by the end of 2010. Currently both wells have reached approximately 5,500 ft. Drilling into deeper formations is permitted only between November and April. Point Thomson is estimated to hold 8 trillion cu. ft. of gas and about 200 million bbl. of condensate.

12 The U.S. Department of the Interior has scheduled 38 oil and gas lease sales for U.S. public lands in 2010, including a sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The Bureau of Land Management’s 37 quarterly oil and natural gas lease sales scheduled for 2010 will offer thousands of parcels in a dozen states, most in the West. The BLM’s Alaska State Office oil and gas lease sale will offer available tracts in the northeast area and a portion of the northwest area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The sale is scheduled for August 11, 2010, in Anchorage.