1 Coastal Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, is drilling toward a projected depth of 19,400 ft. at its wildcat the #1 Houts in Hidalgo County, Texas. Oligocene is the objective of the venture, in Santa Anita Survey, A-63. IHS Energy Group notes that if the projected TD is reached, the #1 Houts will be the deepest test in the county. 2 An Eocene Wilcox discovery completed by Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Corp. in Jackson County, Texas, flowed 3.33 million cu. ft. of gas and 76 bbl. of water per day. The Oklahoma City-based company's #1 Leslie Ploeger, John Footman Survey, A-111, was tested on a 10/64-in. choke through perforations at 13,882-14,254 ft. It's nearly two miles southwest of recently discovered Wilcox production in Lavaca County. 3 Flow gauge was 2.779 million cu. ft. of gas, 24 bbl. of condensate and 168 bbl. of water per day at the #1 Krenek, a Wilcox discovery completed by Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, in Colorado County, Texas. IHS Energy Group reports Newfield perforated at 13,655-57 ft. and tested on a 10/64-in. choke at the well, in I&GN RR Survey, A-292. 4 Texas' Fort Bend County is the site of an Eocene Yegua discovery finaled by San Antonio independent Tesoro Exploration & Production Co. flowing 2.747 million cu. ft. of gas, 44 bbl. of condensate and two bbl. of water per day. Tesoro's #1 Willie Mae Brown is in James M. McCormick Survey, A-57. The test was taken on a 10/64-in. choke through perforations at 7,752-56 ft. The #1 Brown is about four miles southwest of a Tavener Field well that at one time produced gas from Yegua. 5 Sklar-Tex LLC, Shreveport, recorded a flow of 540 bbl. of oil and 486,000 cu. ft. of gas per day from Jurassic Smackover at its discovery the #1 W.R. Nichols et al. in Cass County, Texas. The new producer is in Charles Graham Survey, A-408. The company set pipe on bottom at 12,000 ft. IHS Energy Group notes the nearest production from Smackover is about nine miles to the southeast in Frazier Creek Field. 6 Arkansas' Grayson Field claims a horizontal well completed by Petrochem Operating Co., for 1,068 bbl. of oil and 400,000 cu. ft. of gas per day. Production at the #2 GLSU TR 34-2 is from dual laterals in Smackover between 7,915-8,582 ft. and 7,915-8,812 ft. Petrochem tested on a 30/64-in. choke at the well, in Section 34-16s-21w, Columbia County. The new producer lies about eight miles northeast of other horizontal Smackover production in Lafayette County's Midway Field. 7 Assumption Parish in Louisiana gained a Lower Miocene discovery completed by Fayetteville, Ark.-based Southwestern Energy Production Co. flowing 8.7 million cu. ft. of gas and 300 bbl. of condensate per day on a 14/64-in. choke. According to IHS Energy Group, the new producer is the #1 Dugas & LeBlanc in Section 4-13s-13e, on Southwestern's Gloria Prospect. The company encountered three separate sand intervals between 14,400-14,856 ft. 8 The Fina Oil & Chemical Co. #1 Alexander Billiot is a discovery completed in a previously untested fault block in Terrebonne Parish, La., reports 50% working interest owner Contour Energy Co., Houston. Contour says the well yielded 3.7 million cu. ft. of gas per day on a 48/64-in. choke from the targeted objective sand at 2,600 ft. Dallas-based Fina, the operator, drilled the discovery in Section 12-20s-20e, about six miles southwest of the nearest comparable production in Golden Meadow Field. 9 Partners Apache Corp. and Contour Energy Co., both of Houston, have announced that the Chevron USA Inc.-operated #A-22 OCS-G-4481 is a new-fault discovery on Main Pass Block 77 in the Gulf of Mexico. The well gave up 19.3 million cu. ft. of gas and 1,500 bbl. of oil per day on a 7/16-in. choke. Other data are not reported. Chevron has a 48.4% working interest, Apache has 26.2% and Contour has 18.06%. Other participants are Sabco Oil & Gas, with 6.5%, and Key Production Co. Inc., New Orleans, with 0.84%. 10 Callon Petroleum Co., Natchez, Miss., says its discovery-the #1 OCS-G-17871 on East Cameron Block 275-tested at a combined rate of 18.1 million cu. ft. of gas equivalent per day from two zones. Actual flow rates were 8.9 million cu. ft. of gas and 528 bbl. of condensate per day on a 22/64-in. choke through perforations at 10,384-10,418 ft. and 4.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 240 bbl. of condensate per day on a 20/64-in. choke through perforations at 10,461-82 ft. The well, in 183 ft. of water, was drilled to a measured depth of 10,746 ft. and encountered net gas pay of 160 ft. (true vertical depth) in five intervals between 5,800 and 10,500 ft. Callon owns a 100% working interest in the discovery. Elsewhere in the East Cameron area, a discovery drilled by Sonat Exploration Co. (now El Paso Production Co.) on Block 84 has been brought online flowing 13 million cu. ft. of gas and 300 bbl. of condensate per day. Houston Exploration Co., owner of a 25% working interest, says the well is the #1 OCS-G-14356. Total depth is 17,140 ft. Both Sonat and Houston Exploration are headquartered in Houston. 11 Reserves are estimated to be between 80 billion and 130 billion cu. ft. of gas at the #1 OCS-G-21116, a discovery made by Union Oil Co. of California on Ship Shoal Block 295. Unocal drilled the well in 216 ft. of water and logged more than 450 ft. of pay in three zones. Other details are not reported. 12 Marathon Oil Co., Houston, has obtained a permit to drill a wildcat in 7,997 ft. of water near the center of Walker Ridge Block 165, reports IHS Energy Group. According to an Initial Plan of Exploration filed by Marathon late last year, the #1 OCS-G-20287 is the first of as many as five wildcats scheduled to be drilled in 7,500 to 8,200 ft. of water across three contiguous blocks. In addition to this location, two more were proposed for Block 165, another for Block 121 to the north and yet another further to the north on Block 77. The publication says Marathon leased blocks 77 and 165 at OCS Sale 169 in March 1998 for $3,987,000 and $15,589,000, respectively. Block 121 was leased a year later at OCS Sale 172 by equal-partners Marathon and Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp., Oklahoma City, for $16,577,900. So far, exploration plans have been filed for 14 Walker Ridge blocks. However, only one test has been drilled in the area. A year ago, Texaco Exploration & Production Inc. temporarily abandoned its #1 OCS-G-16949 on Block 70 at a total depth of 8,330 ft. Plans call for the test to eventually be deepened to 26,000 ft. It's about 20 miles northwest of Marathon's new location. 13 Mississippi's Covington County is the location of the Roundtree & Associates Inc. #1 Robertson 21-9, a wildcat completed as a Jurassic Cotton Valley producer flowing 312 bbl. of oil and 477,000 cu. ft. of gas per day. Northeast Collins Field has been mentioned as the name for the new producing area, according to the Southeastern Oil Review. The Jackson independent's discovery, in Section 21-8n-14w, was tested on a 19/64-in. choke through perforations at 17,975-99 ft. It was drilled on a 640-acre unit that includes acreage in sections 21 and 28-8n-14w, Covington County, and sections 22 and 27-8n-14w, Jones County. 14 Houston-based EOG Resources Inc. extended Lower Cretaceous Hosston production in Mississippi's Blackburn Field 1.25 miles to the northeast when it finaled the #1 Cheeks Family Trust flowing 192 bbl. of oil and 5 bbl. of water per day. The Southeastern Oil Review reports the extension, in Section 11-7n-13w, Jones County, is producing through nine perforated intervals between 13,995-14,979 ft. A 6/64-in. choke was used on the test.