Cholla Petroleum Schedules Six Smackover Wildcats in Calhoun County, Fla.
Drilling Activity Details
Calhoun
FL
United States
Drilling Activity Summary
Description
Six Smackover wildcats have been scheduled in a nonproducing part of the Florida Panhandle. According to IHS Markit, Dallas-based Cholla Petroleum’s prospects will be in Calhoun County, and five directional tests have planned depths ranging from 14,076 ft to 14,418 ft, with true vertical depths ranging from 13,620 ft to 13,970 ft. The #25-3 NLT Royalty Partners and #26-4 NLT Royalty Partners are planned for offsetting surface locations in Section 26-2s-9w. In Section 10-3s-9w will be #10-1 NLT Royalty Partners and #10-4 NLT Royalty Partners. The fifth directional test, #4-4 NLT Royalty Partners, will be in Section 3-3s-9w. The lone vertical wildcat, #19-1 NLT Royalty Partners, will be drilled in Section 19-3s-9w, and the proposed depth is 14,300 ft. Nearby drilling occurred in 2018—Spooner Petroleum drilled #1 Hunt 7-3 in Section 7-3s-10w as a 12,228-ft exploratory test, which was abandoned in Smackover.
Six Smackover wildcats have been scheduled in a nonproducing part of the Florida Panhandle. According to IHS Markit, Dallas-based Cholla Petroleum’s prospects will be in Calhoun County, and five directional tests have planned depths ranging from 14,076 ft to 14,418 ft, with true vertical depths ranging from 13,620 ft to 13,970 ft. The #25-3 NLT Royalty Partners and #26-4 NLT Royalty Partners are planned for offsetting surface locations in Section 26-2s-9w. In Section 10-3s-9w will be #10-1 NLT Royalty Partners and #10-4 NLT Royalty Partners. The fifth directional test, #4-4 NLT Royalty Partners, will be in Section 3-3s-9w. The lone vertical wildcat, #19-1 NLT Royalty Partners, will be drilled in Section 19-3s-9w, and the proposed depth is 14,300 ft. Nearby drilling occurred in 2018—Spooner Petroleum drilled #1 Hunt 7-3 in Section 7-3s-10w as a 12,228-ft exploratory test, which was abandoned in Smackover.