1 In Texas' Val Verde Basin, nonproducing Real County has gained a producing well and, to the west, Val Verde County is the site of a remote wildcat that's to be deepened to 18,000 ft. IHS Energy Group reports San Antonio independent Rio-Tex Inc. tested a flow of 2.1 million cu. ft. of gas per day at the discovery, the #1 Hutto in Felix Taylor Survey, A-758. The company tested in an openhole interval in Pennsylvanian between 7,120 ft. and 8,247 ft., total depth. The Val Verde County venture is the Beeson Energy Inc. #1 Bell Estate "3" in Section 3, Block EM, CCSD&RGNG Survey, A-220. The Wichita Falls-based company plans to deepen the wildcat, which was originally abandoned in 1998 at a total depth of 12,257 ft. 2 High Island Block 2lL, offshore Jefferson County, Texas, is the location of a discovery completed by LLOG Exploration Offshore Inc., Metairie, La., flowing 6.199 million cu. ft. of gas and seven bbl. of condensate per day. LLOG's new producer-the #1 State Tract 25L-was tested on an adjustable choke through perforations at 10,023-96 ft. in Miocene. 3 Yuma Exploration & Production Co. Inc., Houston, has announced the successful completion of the initial evaluation well-the #1 State Tract 69-for its 3-D seismic generated S.W. Fishers Reef prospect in Texas. The well, five miles southeast of Baytown in Trinity Bay, Chambers County, yielded 5 million cu. ft. of gas per day on a 10/64-in. choke through perforations between 12,004-12,174 ft. in the objective Oligocene Vicksburg Gyro K Sand. Yuma says it and its partners (Yuma has a 27% interest in the prospect) expect to produce the well flowing 15 million cu. ft. of gas and 150 bbl. of oil per day. 4 Also in Chambers County, a development well in Elwood Field flowed 18.991 million cu. ft. of gas and 297 bbl. of condensate per day at completion by Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore LLC, Oklahoma City, says IHS Energy Group. The #2 Colby Claypool was gauged on a 27/64-in. coke from Vicksburg, perforated at 13,201-12 ft. It's in HT&B RR Co. Survey, A-146. 5 El Paso Production Oil & Gas Co., Houston, is drilling below 11,300 ft. on the way to a projected depth of 18,000 ft. at the #1 Fleming, a wildcat in Walker County, Texas. The exploratory venture is in William Winters Survey, A-53. The drillsite is about six miles northwest of the closest deep drilling, a 20,827-ft. failure where tests were conducted through perforations between 18,303-20,154 ft. in Eocene Wilcox. 6 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, has completed a Jurassic Bossier Sand gas discovery in the East Texas Bossier play. The #1 Gregory "A," in Jose Ignacio Aguilera Survey, A-5, Anderson County, was tested in York Sand flowing 8 million cu. ft. of gas per day. It bottomed below 17,500 ft. and found 241 ft. of net gas pay in multiple sands. Anadarko reports that initial data suggest an important new trend to the northeast of existing East Texas Bossier fields. The company, which holds a 100% interest in the discovery, has exploration rights for about 14,000 net acres in the area. Three stepouts, each with a target depth of 17,800 ft., are already planned for the initial evaluation of the new field. Anadarko has six rigs drilling in the Bossier. Meanwhile, in neighboring Freestone County to the southwest, Anadarko is set to drill an 18,000-ft. wildcat at the #1 Knowles "A." The new venture is in Jose Maria Sanchez Survey, A-32. 7 North Louisiana's Claiborne Parish is the site of a new-field opener completed by El Paso Production Co. flowing 800,000 cu. ft. of gas per day from Cretaceous Hosston. El Paso's new producer is the #1 Simpson 31 in Section 31-19n-5w. IHS Energy Group says the well reached a total depth of 14,800 ft. Liner was run to 14,795 ft. 8 Manti Operating Co., Corpus Christi, set pipe at 8,300 ft. and is waiting on completion tools at the #2 State Lease 17074 in Section 3-12s-16e, St. Bernard Parish, La. The exploratory test was scheduled to be drilled to 10,000 ft. It's a few feet north of Manti's #1 State Lease 17074, which was completed in July 2001 flowing 3.17 million cu. ft. of gas and 10 bbl. of water per day from Miocene, perforated at 7,853-70 ft. The two tests lie a little more than two miles northeast of the company's #5 State Lease 17073, Section 9-12s-16e, that was completed a little more than a year ago flowing 2.42 million cu. ft. of gas and 19 bbl. of water per day from Cristellaria, perforated at 8,020-8,113 ft. 9 Drilling is to be resumed at a depth of 14,131 ft. at the Murphy Exploration & Production Co. #1 LL&E, a wildcat in Section 20-20s-16e, near the inactive Bayou Sauveur Field in Terrebonne Parish, La. The New Orleans firm's test is being directionally drilled to a proposed measured depth of 15,870 ft. (true vertical depth 13,700 ft). Bayou Sauveur Field produced gas and condensate from Miocene at about 11,580 ft. 10 Another Louisiana wildcat is under way at the Southwestern Energy Production Co. #1 Edward H. Peterman in Iberia Parish. The Houston company is nearing 12,770 ft. at the project that's scheduled to go to a depth of 16,000 ft. The drillsite is in irregular Section 22-12s-12e, a few ft. south of an unsuccessful venture in the same section that was abandoned in 1978 at a total depth of 14,100 ft. 11 BHP Petroleum (GOM) Inc. has encountered what it terms is an "encouraging" hydrocarbon column at the #1 (BP) OCS-G-16965, a wildcat on Walker Ridge Block 206 that's part of the Cascade prospect. The prospect was drilled in 8,180 ft. of water, reaching a total depth of 27,929 ft. in a sidetracked hole. The original hole was recently abandoned with liner set to 23,915 ft. BHP owns a 50% interest in Cascade, with Petrobras and Devon Energy Corp. each holding a 25% interest. 12 Remington Oil and Gas Corp., Dallas, reports production has begun, at a rate of 12 million cu. ft. of gas equivalent per day, from the discovery well for West Cameron Block 417 Field in the Gulf of Mexico. The #1 OCS-G-22550 was drilled on West Cameron Block 417 in 98 ft. of water. Remington operates the block with a 50% working interest, with Magnum Hunter Resources and The Wiser Oil Co. each owning 25%. On Eugene Island Block 397, Remington and its partners have completed the two initial discoveries for Eugene Island Block 397 Field flowing a combined 2,400 bbl. of oil and 2.2 million cu. ft. of gas per day. The producing wells are the #A-1 and #A-2 OCS-G-15271, in about 470 ft. of water. Following completion of the recently drilled #A-4 well, plans are to drill up to four additional tests with three of them targeting exploratory zones. Remington owns a 37.5% working interest in the field. W&T Offshore Inc. operates the field with 50%. Magnum Hunter owns the remaining 12.5%. 13 Also in the West Cameron area, on Block 248, J.M. Huber Corp., Houston, has announced the results of its second successful well in West Cameron Block 237 Field for this year. The #A-10 ST OCS-G-9408 encountered 104 ft. of pay in the DJ Sand and is producing 4 million cu. ft. of gas per day. The first well of the year, the #A-1 ST on Block 248, found 45 ft. of pay in the EJ Sand and is also producing at the rate of 4 million cu. ft. of gas per day. Huber operates the field with a 44% working interest. Its partners are Comstock Resources and Pierce Junction Petroleum. For the remainder of 2002, Huber plans to drill three additional wells in the West Cameron area. 14 Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, has reported the results of its first drilling program based on four-component 3-D seismic technology in the Gulf of Mexico. The company says it was successful at four gas wells drilled this year in the West Cameron area with the aid of 4-C seismic. Two of these wells are on West Cameron blocks 534 and 536, where Devon has a 100% working interest. Combined initial gross gas production from these two wells was 36 million cu. ft. per day. The other two wells are on West Cameron Block 532, where Devon has a 67% working interest. Combined initial gross production from these two wells was 30 million cu. ft. of gas per day. Devon is the operator of all four wells. Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, holds the remaining 33% working interest in the wells on Block 532.