1 A 10,940-ft. wildcat in a remote area of Navarro County, Texas, (RRC 5) is on the drawing board for XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, says IHS Energy. The planned #1 Porter Gas Unit is about three miles east-northeast of the Hill County boundary line in William R. Brown Survey, A-66, and about four miles north-northwest of Dawson. The nearest production is some 10 miles south-southeast in Hubbard Field in Hill County, which produces from Woodbine at about 1,300 ft. The nearest production from a comparable depth is about 20 miles east-southeast in Currie Field, a Smackover producer of 4.59 million bbl. of oil and condensate, 150.13 billion cu. ft. of gas and 16.8 million bbl. of water since it came onstream in 1930. The three-well field produced 24 bbl. of oil, 1,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas and 2,083 bbl. of water last December. 2 Endeavor Natural Gas LLC, Houston, has permitted the #1 Samford wildcat in Albert Fults Survey, A-218, Shelby County, Texas (RRC 6). The well is scheduled to 10,000 ft. The location is about 1.75 miles east of the #1 Anthony the company drilled last December to reestablish production from Grisby Field. That well tapped Travis Peak from 8,092 ft. to 8,964 ft. to flow 1.01 million cu. ft. of gas and 20 bbl. of condensate a day through a 12/64-in. choke with 1,925 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The newest Endeavor well is about seven miles southeast of the town of Arcadia. 3 A gas play is opening in central Tyler County, Texas, (RRC 3) and Range Production Co. plans to get in on the action with its 15,500-ft. #1 Reid O'Brien wildcat about six miles east of Woodville. The Fort Worth-based operator apparently will test Woodbine in the Harriett Merritt Survey, A-462. The nearest production came from Yegua at 4,300 ft. in 1985 and 1986 from the single-well Mill Branch Field, about 1.5 miles east. The nearest Woodbine production is about 5.5 miles southwest of the Range well at a January 2005 discovery. That well, the #2 Louisiana Pacific Unit 1, tested at 5.68 million cu. ft. of gas, 240 bbl. of condensate and 62 bbl. of water a day though perforations at 14,549 ft. to 14,627 ft. Tests were run on a 13/64-in. choke. 4 Mile Energy LLC, Houston, celebrated a discovery as its #1 Fielder et al. Unit in northwestern Jefferson County, Texas, (RRC 3) testing 14.38 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,012 bbl. of condensate and no water daily from Nodosaria. It gauged the well through a 17/64-in. choke with 6,190 psi of flowing casing pressure from perforations between 10,370 and 10,440 ft. The true vertical depth of the directional well, drilled from a surface location in Luterio Lopez Survey, A-37, is 10,478 ft. beneath Francisco Valmore Survey, A-54, to the north. The well is about four miles northeast of the town of Winnie. The well subsequently was designated a part of Fannett Southwest Field and reestablishes production from the two-well field and extends the reservoir. The nearest previous well in that field is nearly four miles northeast, where the #1 A A.J. White tested at 437,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Nodosaria. 5 Eastern DeWitt County, Texas, (RRC 2) is the site of a 14,000-ft. wildcat planned by Esenjay Operating Inc., Corpus Christi. It plans to drill the #1 Alfred A. Friar in Sydney Von Bibber Survey, A-77, about a third-mile from the #1 Alfred Friar drilled in 1973. That 11,938-ft. wildcat found some gas in Wilcox, but more substantial production came from a Wilcox producer in Friar Ranch South Field more than a mile southeast of the Esenjay well. That well, the #2 Reiffert-Thomas Gas Unit, has produced a cumulative 229.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,711 bbl. of condensate and 43,908 bbl. of water. 6 An apparent discovery in northern Jackson County, Texas, (RRC 2) tested at 10.57 million cu. ft. of gas, 70 bbl. of condensate and 195 bbl. of water a day for Tri-C Resources Inc., Houston. The #1 Webernick Unit produced from Wilcox between 11,530-50 ft. through a 16/64-in. choke with 7,225 psi of flowing tubing pressure. It was drilled in Section 3, Block 4, I&GN R.R.Co. Survey, A-128. The well is some 12 miles north of Edna and is surrounded by shallow Frio wells in Kubenka, Morales and Cordele fields. The nearest Wilcox production is about a half-mile south, where the #1 W.H. Webernick Gas Unit has produced more than 1.41 billion cu. ft. of gas, 30,619 bbl. of condensate and 35,585 bbl. of water. 7 Corpus Christi, Texas, independent Mestena Operating Ltd. plans a wildcat at its #1 Hargis in Section 122, Narciso Aguirre Survey, A-3, in Zavala County, Texas, (RRC 1) about four miles north of the Dimmit County line. The company plans to drill to 10,000 ft. Although many shallower wells have been drilled, only seven have reached below 7,000 ft. in Zavala County, according to IHS Energy. The nearest is four miles west-southwest of the Mestena well, where the #1 Rod Trust tested 155,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from McKnight-Kiamichi between 7,402 and 7,557 ft. The well never came on stream. There is no production in the area from 10,000 ft. 8 Richman Petroleum Corp., Grapevine, Texas, completed its #1 Resendez discovery at a rate of 2.5 million cu. ft. of gas a day. The northeastern Zapata County, Texas, (RRC 4) well was tested from Wilcox perforations in 30 ft. of pay through an 8/64-in. choke with 7,500 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Richman drilled the well in Antonio Martinez Gutierrez Survey, A-33. The closest well in Jennings Ranch Field, the #11 Jennings Ranch D, is 1.25 miles southwest. That well produced a cumulative 488.61 million cu. ft. of gas and 15,448 bbl. of water from Wilcox between late 2002 and November 2004. 9 Ventex Operating Corp., Dallas, recorded 890,000 cu. ft. of gas, five bbl. of condensate and 160 bbl. of water a day from its #1 Hoyda Unit discovery in southeastern Hidalgo County, Texas (RRC 4). The well was tested from Frio perforations between 10,450-58 ft. and between 10,512-20 ft. through an 18/64-in. choke with 950 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The location is in Juan Jose Balli Survey, A-54, approximately two miles south of Mercedes and three miles north of the border with Mexico. Current nearby production is from Lower Frio at depths shallower than 9,000 ft. In the same survey, EOG Resources Inc., Houston, has drilled a 17,000-ft. directional exploratory well and, at press time, was awaiting completion tools on its #1 Progresso Deep Gas Unit. The company cased the well to 14,625 ft. 10 West Cameron Block 432 is the site of an offshore discovery in the Gulf of Mexico by ATP Oil & Gas Corp., Houston. The company's #A-2 OCS-G-24864 wildcat is in West Cameron 432 and tested gas from the Montgomery formation between 3,874-86 ft. Measured depth was 4,070 ft. and true vertical depth was 3,153 ft. The operator plans another test from the same surface location. The close-to-shore discovery is near existing infrastructure and ATP plans to bring the well onstream later this year. 11 Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc., Irving, Texas, tested 10 million cu. ft. of gas a day from a discovery, its Midway prospect on Brazos Block A-39, according to partner Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. The companies' #5 (BP) OCS-G-04559 flow rate was gauged a 13/64-in. choke during a 17-hour test. The companies plan to tie the well back to Pioneer's A platform, which is about 1.5 miles north in the same Gulf of Mexico tract. 12 An Ewing Bank 948 wildcat resulted in a discovery for Pogo Producing Co., Houston. Coring and logging confirm the existence of 100 ft. of net gas and condensate pay with porosity of more than 26% and average permeability of roughly 500 millidarcies. Most of the Pleistocene Angulogenrina-B zone is in a 200-ft. laminated sand interval between 13,710 and 13,910 ft. Pogo's #SS1 OCS-G-26226 lies in 725 ft. of water. The company plans to produce the discovery to a nearby platform in 2006. This is the first of five tests Pogo has proposed for the block. 13 Northeastern Natchitoches Parish in northern Louisiana is the site for a 6,500-ft. wildcat staked by Shreveport, La.-based independent Fite Oil & Gas Inc. The #1 Pardee Co. will aim at Rodessa gas about 5.5 miles west of Goldanna in Section 24-12n-7w. The nearest production is from one-well Creston Field, more than a mile south-southeast of Fite's proposed well. That well produced 3.72 million cu. ft. of gas and 57,007 bbl. of condensate in its three months online from Rodessa between 6,355-64 ft. 14 Meridian Resource & Exploration Co., Houston, plans a wildcat in St. Mary Parish, La. The #2 Avoca Inc. "5" directional well will evaluate Bigenerina humblei II sand to 12,434 ft. (12,030 ft. true vertical depth) with a bottomhole location a half-mile south in the same section as the surface site, Section 5-17s-13e. The site is in Six Mile Lake, about a mile from the Terrebone Parish line. 15 Tulsa, Okla., independent Samson Resources Co. completed a wildcat that tested at 100,000 cu. ft. of gas, three bbl. of condensate and four bbl. of water a day in southeastern Marion County, Miss. The #1 Ham Unit, in Section 20-1n-17w, about two miles north of the Pearl County line, tested Pilot perforations between 8,912-32 ft. with 920 psi of flowing tubing pressure after being plugged back from 9,300-ft. total depth.