1 Miller Energy Inc., Houston, plans two wildcats in southwestern Shelby County, Texas, (RRC 6) more than 10 miles west-southwest of Center and 1.5 miles east of the Nacogdoches County boundary. The company's #1 Hughes is scheduled to 10,200 ft. in William Wisener Survey, A-778. About a half-mile west-southwest of that well, Miller will re-enter the #1 IP in Wesley Hill Survey, A-282. That well was planned to 12,532 ft. in 2003. It was plugged back to 11,237 ft. after production testing and casing was set to 8,654 ft. The nearest production is another 1.5 miles north, where the #1 Clay, in J. Cordova Survey, A-3, was completed for 4.1 million cu. ft. of gas per day from Travis Peak from 8,016-24 ft. The well produced 31.3 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,728 bbl. of condensate and 7,847 bbl. of water during its 11 years online. 2 Ballard Exploration Co. Inc., Houston, will drill a directional wildcat to 9,500 ft. inside the Houston city limits in Harris County (RRC 3). The company's #1 Houston Drilling Unit N4 W2-1 will be in the Samuel W. Allen Survey, A-94, in Eureka Heights Field. A Yegua producer was online from 1938 to the mid-1980s, less than 1.5 miles southwest. The #3 Shady Acres Development well in that field showed an initial potential of 531 bbl. of oil daily from perforations between 8,540 and 7,700 ft. 3 A 20,000-ft. wildcat has been scheduled by El Paso Production Oil & Gas Co., Houston, four miles west-southwest of Matagorda in southwestern Matagorda County, Texas (RRC 3). El Paso's #2 Mad Island will drill from an onshore surface location in Joseph Bishop Survey, A-115, to an offshore point in State Tract 20 in East Matagorda Bay. El Paso will drill the well from the same pad location as its #1 Mad Island Unit 1. The company set 5-in. casing on that well to 21,000 ft. at total depth. The company planned to drill that well to a bottomhole location southeast under offshore State Tract 4. The nearest production below 15,000 ft. in Matagorda Bay is 5.5 miles south-southwest in State Tract 274 where the #1 East Matagorda Bay Unit produced 487.7 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,629 bbl. of condensate and 18,497 bbl. of water from Lower Frio during one year online. It produced from perforations between 15,545-85 ft., according to IHS Energy. 4 Kaler Energy Corp., San Antonio, will drill a second wildcat in northern McMullen County, Texas (RRC 1). The #2 Hollan, a west offset to the #1 Hollan, is scheduled to 6,500 ft., about seven miles north-northwest of Tilden in Section 34, J. Poitevent Survey, A-615. The company abandoned the #1 Hollan in Wilcox at 6,200 ft. 5 A Brooks County, Texas, (RRC 4) discovery flowed at a rate of 1.15 million cu. ft. of gas, seven bbl. of condensate and one bbl. of water daily for Ballard Exploration Co. Inc., Houston. The company's #1 Betsy Bennett "A" is more than 10 miles southwest of Falfurrias in Ysidora Guerra Survey, A-258. It was tested through a 14/64-in. choke with 1,205 psi of flowing tubing pressure from Vicksburg perforations between 5,940-51 ft. Although Ballard completed the well in February, production details only recently were available. The well is 1.75 miles northeast of the #1 Betsy Bennett, the opener for Mills Bennett West Field, IHS Energy reported. 6 Erskine Energy LLC, Houston, has staked a wildcat to 15,500 ft. about 13 miles southwest of Sarita in Kenedy County, Texas (RRC 4). The company's #2 Sullivan is in Jose Antonio Leal de Leon Survey, A-61, and is 0.25-mile east of the abandoned #1 Sullivan Ranch Gas Unit "2" in the same survey. That test was abandoned in Vicksburg at 15,180 ft. The opener for Mag Field is 1.25 miles west. That well produced 183.75 million cu. ft. of gas, nine bbl. of condensate and 4,893 bbl. of water from Fir perforations between 15,924 and 17,246 ft. from September 2003 through June 2004. 7 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, completed the #1 Las Escobas in northwestern Starr County, Texas, (RRC 4) at a daily rate of 4.71 million cu. ft. of gas, 152 bbl. of condensate and 91 bbl. of water. The 8,500-ft. wildcat, drilled less than two miles east-southeast of the Zapata County boundary line, tested through an 18/64-in. choke with flowing casing pressure of 3,127 psi from perforations between 7,853 and 7,953 ft. The formation was not reported. 8 EOG Resources Inc. also completed a wildcat near Mercedes Field in southeastern Hidalgo County, Texas, (RRC 4) for 1.35 million cu. ft. of gas, 149 bbl. of condensate and 463 bbl. of water a day. The company's #1 Mercedes Deep Gas Unit in Juan Jose Balli Survey, A-54, nearly five miles east-northeast of Mila Doce produced from Lower Frio perforations from 13,602-74 ft. through a 14/64-in. choke with 3,827 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well is surrounded by shallower production from Frio wells. 9 Noble Energy Inc., Houston, plans four wildcats offshore Texas in the southern part of Mustang Island blocks 829 and 830 in 176 ft. of water. The exploration plan calls for two wells each in Block 829 and Block 830. The nearest production is in Mustang Island Block 831 Field, where a well produced 591.11 million cu. ft. of gas, 138 bbl. of condensate and 831 bbl. of water between 1985 and 1992 from one Middle Miocene interval. That well later produced 3.15 billion cu. ft. of gas, 678 bbl. of condensate and 8,374 bbl. of water until 1993 from a deeper Middle Miocene zone. 10 Kerr-McGee Corp., Oklahoma City, will drill its first wildcat on its Kung Pao prospect in Garden Banks 171. The #1 OCS-G-21379 will be drilled in 925 ft. of water in the southeastern section of the block, and the company plans one more test in water 910 to 1,000 ft. deep. Two other tests were drilled in the block. One was an abandoned well on the Salsa prospect. A more recent well that bottomed in Block 172 produced 17.12 billion cu. ft. of gas, 510,013 bbl. of condensate and 611,218 bbl. of water as part of Salsa Field. Production was from Williana from 14,220 to 14,410 ft. 11 A wildcat on undrilled South Timbalier 168 is planned by ExxonMobil Corp. at its Blackbeard prospect. The company will drill in 70 ft. of water. The nearest well is nearly 2.25 miles southeast in Block 170. That ExxonMobil well, the #F-13, produced more than 1.16 billion cu. ft. of gas and 67,301 bbl. of water through 1998. 12 BHP Billiton Petroleum (GOM) Inc., a subsidiary of BHP Billiton Plc, Melbourne, Australia, tapped 330 ft. of oil pay in a 410-ft. gross hydrocarbon column in Lower Miocene at its Shenzi prospect in Green Canyon 653. The #2 OCS-G-20084 is in the western portion of the block. A sidetrack to the original well confirmed the column. The company drilled the well in 4,355 ft. of water to a total depth of about 28,000 ft. 13 Geomet Operating Co. Inc., Birmingham, Ala., has permitted three, 3,800-ft. wildcat wells to Wilcox in southeastern Winn Parish in northern Louisiana. The #7 Weyerhaeuser is in Section 3-10n-1e, about 1.3 miles west of the closest well in Crossroads Field, which pumped five bbl. of oil per day from an openhole Wilcox interval. The second wildcat is the #8 Weyerhaeuser in Section 13 of the same township, about five miles west of the #7 well. The #9 Weyerhaeuser is another four miles southeast in Section 28 of the same township. 14 A Catahoula Parish, La., wildcat scheduled by Big Joe Oil Co., Natchez, Miss., will look for Wilcox pay at 6,350 ft. in Section 15-5n-6e, about a third-mile southwest of the Concordia Parish boundary. The nearest producer to Big Joe's #1 McGuffee is the nearest well in Larto Lake East Field, which produces from Cave River Sand (Wilcox) from 5,358-63 ft. That well, the #1 Inabnet, has produced 45,884 bbl. of oil and more than 2 million bbl. of water since 1981. It produced 17 bbl. of oil and 1,683 bbl. of water in June. 15 In southern Louisiana, The Meridian Resource & Exploration LLC, Houston, Texas, has permitted the #1 Ferdinand Boudreaux in Section 19-12s-2w. Vermilion Parish, just east of the Cameron Parish boundary. The company plans to drill the wildcat to 14,557 ft. The closest production to the well is nearly 1.3 miles south-southwest in Cameron Canal Field. In that field, the #1 E.E. Broussard Estate produced 359 million cu. ft. of gas and 37,364 bbl. of water during its eight months on production from Heterostegina perforations between 12,500-30 ft. From 1980 through 1991, the well was part of a unitized lease and production was not recorded for single wells. 16 Independent James A. Whitson Jr., Houston, has staked a southern Louisiana wildcat in Section 11-20s-14e in Terrebonne Parish. The #1 LL&E is projected to 4,000 ft. in Lake Pagie. The directional well will bottom in adjacent Section 10 west. The nearest production comes from Lake Pagie Field, about 1.75 miles north-northeast. In that field, the #1 LL&E "A," in Section 35-19s-14e, produced 943.6 million cu. ft. of gas, 2,024 bbl. of condensate and 205,611 bbl. of water from 1980 through 1984. Recovery from Lake Pagie Field since the early 1960s has totaled more than 1.23 trillion cu. ft. of gas, 32.25 million bbl. of condensate and 71.22 million bbl. of water.