1 Shell Offshore Inc. has completed a well in Fairway Field, offshore Mobile County, Ala. The #5 State Lease 0531, in Mobile Block 113, flowed 43.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 253 bbl. of water per day through a 57/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 3,119 psi, says IHS Energy Group. Production is from Norphlet at 23,102-23,296 ft. The well was drilled to 23,308 ft., but plugged back to 23,296 ft. The field has produced a cumulative 462.2 billion cu. ft. of gas since production began in 1991. In June 2002, production was 1.45 billion cu. ft. of gas and 19,248 bbl. of water from four wells. 2 Offshore Alabama, Walter Oil & Gas Corp. has spudded the #1 OCS-G-22820 in the southern half of Mobile Block 862 in 54 ft. of water. Walter picked up the block at the March 2001 lease sale for $757,033. The only other well on the block, the #1 OCS-G-5063, was drilled to a total depth of 22,068 ft. in Norphlet. Activity in neighboring Block 861 includes a well that produced 14.16 billion cu. ft. of gas between 1994 and 1999, and an Upper Miocene well that flowed 22.71 million cu. ft. of gas in September 2001. 3 Houston-based Miller Exploration Co. has scheduled a wildcat in Section 31-3n-15e near Pleasant Home Field in Covington County, Ala. The #1 Miller-Dixon is slated to reach 12,000 ft. Pleasant Home Field has yielded more than 823,730 bbl. of crude and 66.34 million cu. ft. of casinghead gas since it was brought online in 1994. To date, only 53 tests have been drilled in Covington County, with production from one-well Copeland South Creek, Teel Creek and Mobley fields; two-well Falco West Field; and six-well Rome North Field. 4 Raymond, Miss.-based Armadillo Services Inc. plans to drill a wildcat in Section 11-14s-15w in Alabama's eastern Lamar County, near Fairview Field. The #1 Tensas-Ogden 11-19 is permitted to 3,300 ft. Fairview Field has recovered 428,081 bbl. of oil and condensate, as well as 7.33 billion cu. ft. of gas, since it was brought online in 1974, according to IHS Energy Group. A 1989 dry hole about 0.5-mile south is the closest drilling to the wildcat. Log tops in that test showed the Millerella at 2,367 ft., Lewis at 2,940 ft. and Tuscumbia at 3,040 ft. 5 Savoy Energy LP, Traverse City, Mich., plans to reenter the #1-30A Borgen, a 10,106-ft. dry hole in Section 30-25n-7w, Garfield Township, nearly eight miles east-southeast of Fife Lake in southwestern Kalkaska County, Mich. That well, drilled in 1980, recovered 290 ft. of gas-cut fluid on a drillstem test of Clinton from 8,350-8,420 ft. It found 1,584 ft. of saltwater in Devonian Dundee and 70 ft. of fluid from 9,050-9,358 ft. in Ordovician zones. The project is 4.5 miles west-northwest of Devonian Traverse production in Cannon Creek Field. 6 Peabody Natural Gas LLC, St. Louis, plans to evaluate the gas potential of Pennsylvanian coals at a southern Illinois Basin wildcat in Section 3-8s-5e, about 1.5 miles northwest of Galatia in northwest Saline County, Ill. The #1 PNG-Simpson, projected to 1,200 ft., will be drilled in Harco East Field. Harco Field, a Mississippian oil pool, is two miles to the southeast. About 0.5-mile south, a 3,298-ft. dry hole was completed in 1990. According to IHS Energy records, the operator production-tested Aux Vases before abandoning the prospect. 7 Bernard Marshall, Salem, Ill., has scheduled a 2,800-ft. Devonian wildcat in Section 8-1n-4e, southeastern Marion County, Ill. The #1 J.R. Haney is about 1.5 miles from the nearest production in the southern portion of Exchange North Consolidated Field. That field, discovered in 1951, has produced 1.1 million bbl. of oil from Mississippian reservoirs. The nearest Devonian production is 10 miles to the northwest from a Geneva well in Salem East Field. 8 A wildcat has been staked five miles north-northeast of Louisville, Ill., by Rockwell Petroleum, St. Petersburg, Fla. The #9 Ranes, in Section 25-5n-6e, Clay County, will test potential production through Devonian to 4,410 ft. That well is a mile west of Toliver East Field, which has produced 336,000 bbl. of oil from zones in Cypress, Aux Vases, Spar Mountain and McClosky between 2,500 ft. and 2,900 ft. since 1943. One well in that field still produced at stripper rates in August. The closest Devonian production is four miles northeast of the Rockwell test in Sailor Springs Consolidated Field. 9 U.S. Oil & Gas Corp. staked an Illinois Basin test eight miles southeast of Clay City, Ill., in Section 9-2n-9e, RichlandCounty, Ill., about 1.5 miles south of Schnell East Field, which produces from Rosiclare. The Teutopolis, Ill., operator will drill to Salem at 3,800 ft. at the #1 Burgener. 10 In Clinton County, Lincoln Oil & Gas LLC, Monticello, Ill., staked a second 3,100-ft. wildcat. This one, the #25-1 Schaubert in the southwest corner of Section 25-3n-1w, will penetrate formations through the Devonian Geneva. The well is about a mile east of Boulder East Field, which produces from Devonian. In the southeast corner of the same section, the company has scheduled a 3,100-ft. Devonian test at its #25-1 Hester. 11 A pair of Silurian wildcats have been staked in southwestern Vigo County, Ind., in the northeastern Illinois Basin, according to IHS Energy Group. Schofield Oil Co. plans a 2,300-ft. test at its #1-Cutsinger Community in Section 31-10n-92w, three miles west-northwest of Farmersburg, Ind. The well is about 100 ft. north of the company's #1-Cutsinger Community, which was plugged in June 2002 with no explanation after drilling to 1,770 ft. The other wildcat is one township to the north, where Pioneer Oil Co. of Lawrenceville, Ill., has scheduled the 2,150-ft. #1 Robert Halt as a Silurian test in Section 16-11n-9w. 12 Tipka Energy Development Co. of New Philadelphia, Ohio, is planning a deeper-pool wildcat in Goshen Field. The #1 Urfer Unit is scheduled to 7,800 ft. in Goshen Township, New Philadelphia quad, in northeastern Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The well will penetrate Clinton, Beekmantown and Rose Run in an area that typically produces natural gas. 13 Owensboro, Ky.-based J.R. Watts has staked an exploratory test a mile west of Masonville, Ky. The #1 Barbara Moorman, in 5-N-30, Daviess County, Ky., will test Mississippian formations through McClosky to 1,850 ft. The well lies about a mile east of production from Sutherland Field, which now is inactive. Sutherland is a three-well field that produced noncommercial amounts of oil from Tar Springs at about 1,125 ft., according to IHS Energy Group. 14 Devon Energy Corp.'s Viosca Knoll 694 #4 well in the Gulf of Mexico is producing at a sustained rate of 16 million cu. ft. of gas and 200 bbl. of condensate daily. The discovery well, drilled to a total depth of 10,775 ft., is a subsea completion in 567 ft. of water. Production from the offshore Mississippi development in Viosca Knoll Block 694 is flowing to facilities in Main Pass Block 259.