Murphy Oil Completes Two Eagle Ford Wells In Catarina Project Area
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TX
United States
Drilling Activity Summary
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In Dimmit County (RRC Dist. 1), Texas, Murphy Oil Corp. has completed two Eagle Ford Shale wells in the company’s Catarina project area. The Houston-based company’s Briscoe Ranch Field wells were drilled from offsetting surface locations on a 640-acre South-west Texas lease in Section 1171, Bowie CSL Survey, A-852. The #1H Briggs Unit J flowed 712 bbl of 40-degree-gravity crude, 1.907 MMcf of gas and 727 bbl of water per day. Production is from fracture-treated perforations at 7,927-15,815 ft. Gauged on a 20/64-in. choke, the flowing tubing pressure was 1,168 psi. It was drilled to 16,255 ft, 7,754 ft true vertical. The offsetting #3H Briggs Unit was completed in a fracture-treated Eagle Ford zone at 7,798-16,142 ft. The horizontal sidetrack was tested flowing 643 bbl of 40-degree-gravity crude, 2.453 MMcf of gas and 71 bbl of water per day. It was drilled to 16,283 ft and the true vertical depth is 7,754 ft. Murphy Oil is based in El Dorado, Ark.
In Dimmit County (RRC Dist. 1), Texas, Murphy Oil Corp. has completed two Eagle Ford Shale wells in the company’s Catarina project area. The Houston-based company’s Briscoe Ranch Field wells were drilled from offsetting surface locations on a 640-acre South-west Texas lease in Section 1171, Bowie CSL Survey, A-852. The #1H Briggs Unit J flowed 712 bbl of 40-degree-gravity crude, 1.907 MMcf of gas and 727 bbl of water per day. Production is from fracture-treated perforations at 7,927-15,815 ft. Gauged on a 20/64-in. choke, the flowing tubing pressure was 1,168 psi. It was drilled to 16,255 ft, 7,754 ft true vertical. The offsetting #3H Briggs Unit was completed in a fracture-treated Eagle Ford zone at 7,798-16,142 ft. The horizontal sidetrack was tested flowing 643 bbl of 40-degree-gravity crude, 2.453 MMcf of gas and 71 bbl of water per day. It was drilled to 16,283 ft and the true vertical depth is 7,754 ft. Murphy Oil is based in El Dorado, Ark.