1 Fortune Operating Co., Willis, La., confirmed its Fortune Operating Field in Shelby County, Texas, (RRC 6) as it completed the #1H Fortune-Allied horizontal well. The well, in Chancer Ashton Survey, A-16, flowed 188 bbl. of oil with 216,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 360 bbl. of water a day through a 40/64-in. choke. Fortune tested the well through an openhole Fredericksburg section from 3,108 to 5,100 ft. measured depth. The field opener is more than a half-mile southeast in Irish Jr. Survey, A-1172. There, the #1H Joaquin "B" flowed 240 bbl. of oil from Fredericksburg. During five months online that well produced 1,895 bbl. of oil and 113,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas. 2 Success struck close to home as Sonerra Resources Corp., Nacogdoches, Texas, completed two wildcats about five miles east of its headquarters in Nacogdoches County (RRC 6). The company tested the #1 Ten Bears for 76 bbl. of oil, 396,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 181 bbl. of water a day from fractured Travis Peak between 9,292 and 9,352 ft. in Pedro Procela Survey, A-47. More than 0.75-mile east in the same survey, the company drilled the #2 Ten Bears wildcat, which flowed 230,000 cu. ft. of gas with 12 bbl. of oil and 54 bbl. of water from fractured Travis Peak between 9,258 and 9,305 ft. The company also permitted a 9,000-ft. vertical test called the #1 Screaming Eagle a half-mile north of the #1 Ten Bears and a horizontal test called the #1 Red Cloud another mile north-northeast. The nearest Travis Peak production is about four miles east-southeast of the #2 Ten Bears in Kendrick Field, according to IHS Energy. 3 Unit Petroleum Co., Tulsa, Okla., posted a discovery with its #1 BP Fee "A" wildcat in Tyler County, Texas, (RRC 3) about two miles east of the Polk County boundary and 2.5 miles north of the Hardin County line. The well flowed 1.09 million cu. ft. of gas, 56 bbl. of condensate and 26 bbl. of water a day from Lower Wilcox fractured between 12,887 and 12,930 ft. Flowing casing pressure was 1,715 psi on an adjustable choke at the well in Thomas W. Chambers Survey, A-177, more than three miles north-northwest of Kountze. The nearest Wilcox production is 1.3 miles north in Jacks Creek Field. That zone produced 214.2 million cu. ft. of gas, 8,393 bbl. of condensate and 978 bbl. of water in 10 years online. 4 Kerr-McGee Corp., Oklahoma City, tested gas at a rate of 3.45 million cu. ft. a day with 140 bbl. of condensate and no water at a wildcat Hackberry discovery in southeastern Chambers County, Texas (RRC 3). The #2 Barrow Ranch in Elisha Stephenson Survey, A-363, was tested through a 12/64-in. choke with 6,163 psi of flowing tubing pressure from treated perforations between 10,405-38 ft. The well is about eight miles southwest of the town of Stowell. The nearest production from Hackberry is two miles north-northeast in Willow Slough Field, where the #5 C.L. Wakefield produced a cumulative 9 billion cu. ft. of gas and 5,476 bbl. of condensate, said IHS Energy. 5 Everest Resource Co., Corpus Christi, completed a discovery in southern Lavaca County, Texas, (RRC 2) about a mile northeast of the convergence of DeWitt and Victoria counties. The #1 Mueller wildcat in M.A. Johnson Survey, A-259, tapped Yegua perforations between 5,418-24 ft. for 676,000 cu. ft. of gas and seven bbl. of condensate a day. The company ran the test through a 9/64-in. choke with 1,890 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Comparable production lies 1.25 miles east in the same survey in Kemper East Field. There, the #1 Frank Gas Unit 2 produced 1.01 billion cu. ft. of gas, 8,165 bbl. of condensate and 44,860 bbl. of water in 11 years. 6 San Antonio-based W.C. Miller Operating Co. will drill a 5,800-ft. wildcat about 3.5 miles east of Coy City in western Karnes County, Texas (RRC 2). The company's #1 Ginther Trust & H.C. Warrant is in Arocha Survey, A-16. The company abandoned a similar wildcat about a half-mile northeast in January 2003, according to IHS Energy. The nearest producing well is in Coy City Field some 2.5 miles southwest. In that field, the #1 D.O. Klingman tested at 4.9 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Wilcox below 7,880 ft. In the same field, the #1 Imperial Oil tested at 1.05 million cu. ft. of gas from a Carrizo interval between 4,744-48 ft. 7 The #1 Tei Zachman has been scheduled three miles south-southeast of Batesville in eastern Zavala County, Texas, (RRC 1) by Tasajillo Energy Inc., San Antonio. The wildcat, in the John W. Peacock Survey, A-545, is scheduled to 4,500 ft. The nearest production comes from Hammond Field, about 3.5 miles west-northwest, where the #2 A.A.E. Hammond "A" produced 860.3 million cu. ft. of gas from Olmos perforations between 2,982-90 ft. from 1971 until 1975, according to IHS Energy. 8 Touchstone Resources USA Inc., Houston, plans a 9,500-ft. horizontal wildcat in southwestern Zavala County, Texas, (RRC 1) about two miles west of Cometa and 1.5 miles north of the Dimmit County line. The #1 H L.O. Travis "641" in GWT&PR RR Survey, A-158, will bottom a third-mile northwest under William H. Marshall Survey, A-528. There is no nearby production from a similar depth. The nearest producer is the #1 Oppenheimer, a half-mile south-southwest in Comanche Creek Field. It produces from San Miguel above 2,500 ft. 9 Killam Oil Co. Ltd., Laredo, Texas, completed a discovery flowing 1.58 million cu. ft. of gas and 64 bbl. of water a day from Lower Wilcox between 13,265-66 ft. The #1 Killam-Hurd-McLean, in southeastern Webb County, Texas, (RRC 4) GC&SF Survey, A-2237, was tested through a 16/64-in. choke with 1,276 psi of flowing casing pressure after the company drilled to a total depth of 13,550 ft. The nearest production from Wilcox is more than a mile west-northwest at the only producing well in McLean West Field. That well, the #1 E. Garcia Estate, produced 693.44 million cu. ft. of gas through 1968. 10 Energy Partners Ltd., New Orleans, tapped 50 ft. of apparent gas pay in two intervals as it drilled its #2 OCS-G-24955 in the southern part of South Timbalier 46 in the Gulf of Mexico. It drilled the well in about 70 ft. of water to a total depth of 17,715 ft. The company's exploration plan calls for up to four wells at separate locations on the block. The block has had only one producer, about a half-mile east, which made 3.75 billion cu. ft. of gas, 62,387 bbl. of condensate and 2,175 bbl. of water from Upper Miocene at 14,850-90 ft. for nine months in 1999. It was later recompleted higher in the wellbore for another 2.29 billion cu. ft. of gas, 7,561 bbl. of condensate and 11,042 bbl. of water, according to an IHS Energy report. 11 In the western Gulf of Mexico, Walter Oil & Gas Corp. plans two campaigns, one each in East Breaks 425 and 426. The water depth is 2,584 ft. in Block 426, where it plans one well. It plans three wells on Block 425 in water depths from 2,625 to 2,822 ft. The nearest production is about 13 miles south at Nansen Field. 12 ChevronTexaco reported a production potential of 30,000 bbl. of oil per day from its Tahiti test in Green Canyon 640, although test equipment would only allow 15,000 bbl. per day. The higher number exceeds the company's earlier expectation of 25,000 bbl. per day of production from the 25,812-ft. well. That depth makes it the deepest successful well in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery found more than 400 ft. of net pay when it was drilled in 2002. One well in the three appraisals drilled since that time found more than 1,000 ft. of net pay and confirmed that the reservoir covered a distance of three miles. 13 Goldston Oil Corp., Houston, staked a remote wildcat immediately south of the Morehouse Parish boundary line in Richland Parish, La. The company's #1 Lofton "20," about five miles east-southeast of Oak Ridge, will evaluate gas potential in the Cotton Valley to 8,100 ft. measured depth, or 7,300 ft. true vertical depth, in Section 20-19n-8e. Wells within six miles of the test all produce at depths shallower than 3,200 ft., IHS Energy said. 14 Lafayette, La., independent PXP Gulf Coast Inc. will drill its #1 State Lease 17537 to a planned measured depth of 9,500 ft., or 9,000 ft. true vertical depth, in northwestern St. Bernard Parish, La. Both the top and bottom hole will be in Section 30-12s-13e, about 0.25-mile southeast of the New Orleans city limits. The nearest producer is nearly nine miles east-southeast. 15 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, recompleted a Magee Field well in Simpson County, Miss., flowing 1,109 bbl. of high-gravity oil and 1.36 million cu. ft. of casinghead gas a day with a trace of water. The test was choked down from a potential of more than 1,500 bbl. of oil per day because of pipeline limitations. It tested the #1 Randall M. Adcox through Wells Sand perforations between 13,678 and 13,710 ft. through a 16/64-in. choke with 2,582 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well originally was completed in a deeper Hosston zone, according to IHS Energy. 16 KFG Petroleum Corp., Natchez, Miss., has permitted the #1 Harvey wildcat in Section 14-1s-17w in northwestern Pearl River County, Miss. The nearest production to the 9,150-ft. test is two miles northeast in Two Mile Creek Field, where the #2 Dixie & Phoenix Minerals tested at 1.35 million cu. ft. of gas, 15 bbl. of condensate and 60 bbl. of water a day.