1 Roosth Production Co., Tyler, Texas, will drill a remote wildcat some 7.5 miles southeast of Paris, Texas, in southeastern Lamar County (RRC 5). The company plans to drill to 6,000 ft. to look for oil at the #1 C.R. Cheatham in John V. Cherry Survey, A-171. Although about 100 wells have been drilled in the county, it has no producers. The nearest previous drilling is about 2.33 miles southeast, and the nearest production is more than 10 miles east-southeast in Red River County on the western flank of Shelton Field. There, the #1 Joe M. Ward flowed a cumulative 486 bbl. of oil, 32,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas and three bbl. of water from a 10-ft. Cotton Valley interval between 1986 and 1996. 2 Mount Pleasant, Mich.-based First Source Texas Inc. IT is drilling ahead at its #1 Gastar Cheney wildcat in the Pedro Jose de Jesus Pereire & Mariano Grande Survey, A-17, some 10 miles south of Marquez in Robertson County, Texas (RRC 5). The 16,500-ft. test is some 1.75 miles west-northwest of the only gas well in Hilltop Resort Field. That well, the #1 Gus Lanier, produced 277.4 million cu. ft. of gas and 984 bbl. of water from Bossier perforations between 16,841 and 16,902 ft. during the 18 months it was online. 3 Winn Exploration Co. Inc., Corpus Christi, has scheduled its #1 Temple-Inland, a 16,000-ft. wildcat about 2.5 miles northwest of Weches in Houston County, Texas (RRC 6). The well is in William P. Theobald #1028 Survey, A-1043, and plans call for one lateral in the three-lateral well to bottom blow the adjacent William P. Theobald #1029 Survey, A-1044, to the north, while the other two laterals will stay in the same survey as the drilling site. The nearest production is a mile southwest where the #1 Percilla Gas Unit "1" tested at 1.44 million cu. ft. of gas from Pettet between 10,404 and 10,610 ft., IHS Energy said. 4 Deep Rock Resources Inc., Dallas, brought in a horizontal new field discovery as its Zingara #1 in A. Dodson Survey, A-174, in Grimes County, Texas, (RRC 3) tested at 4.8 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Glen Rose. It tested the well through perforations between 10,848 and 16,954 ft. through a 16/64-in. choke with 3,065 psi of flowing tubing pressure. According to the company, the well is the opener for Deep Rock Resources Glen Rose Field. The location is immediately east of Iola Field, which has production from Glen Rose, and six miles northwest of the town of Bedias in the northeastern corner of the county. 5 Union Gas Operating Co. ./ Houston, plans a 15,000-ft. wildcat on a 3,961.8-acre lease about 2.25 miles west of the Jasper County line and 7.5 miles north of the town of Silsbee in Hardin County, Texas (RRC 3). The #1 B.P. Nelson "A-40" is a northeast offset to an abandoned 10,315-ft. test, also in O.C. Nelson Survey, A-40. The nearest production is in Silsbee Field a mile south-southeast, which produces from Yegua above 7,400 ft. according to IHS Energy. 6 The #1 W.B. Fitzhenry Heirs Gas Unit "1" in Hope Field more than 15 miles northeast of Hallettsville in southeastern Lavaca County, Texas, (RRC 2) tested at nearly 52 million cu. ft. of gas, 119 bbl. of condensate and 300 bbl. of water a day for El Paso Production Oil & Gas Co., Houston. The company tested the well on a 40/64 in. choke with flowing casing pressure of 6,966 psi from fractured perforations in the Lower Wilcox between 13,398 and 14,288 ft. The well is in Benedick Riley Survey, A-390. An offset, the #2 W.B. Fitzhenry Heirs Gas Unit "1" is drilling in the same survey. 7 Reliance Energy Inc., Midland, brought in a discovery in northwestern Goliad County, Texas (RRC 2). The company's #1 Schultze produced 5 million cu. ft. of gas, 18 bbl. of condensate and 10 bbl. of water a day from Wilcox perforations between 10,118-58 ft. Reliance tested the well on a 17/64-in. choke with 4,096 psi of flowing casing pressure. A half-mile west-southwest, a former producer in Yanta Field in the same survey flowed a cumulative 100.1 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,302 bbl. of condensate and 109 bbl. of water during the 11 months it was onstream. That well produced from Wilcox between 7,600-06 ft. 8 Noble Energy Inc., Houston, completed a wildcat for nearly 1.7 million cu. ft. of gas a day with two bbl. of condensate and two bbl. of water a day at a Nueces County, Texas, (RRC 4) location more than 10 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. Noble tested its #1 Braman-Ocker through Textularia mississippiensis perforations between 8,398 and 8,404 ft., between 8,410-12 ft. and between 8,432-36 ft. through an 11/64-in. choke with 2,440 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The nearest production from a similar depth is 1.5 miles east where Doughty Field produces from Frio below 8,534 ft., according to IHS Energy. 9 Richman Petroleum Corp., Grapevine, Texas, gauged 1.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 224 bbl. of condensate and 56 bbl. of water a day from its #1 Peal Ranch discovery in Wilcox in western Duval County, Texas (RRC 4). The company tested the well through a 15/64-in. choke with 6,915 psi of flowing tubing pressure from fractured perforations between 11,716-50 ft. The well in BS&F #792 Survey, A-1912, is 1.5 miles east of the Webb County line and 15 miles southwest of Freer. The nearest Wilcox producer is 2.5 miles southwest in the northeastern flank of Tiffany Field. There, the #1 Union Ranch State Gas Unit was completed for 9.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day in 2002 from perforations between 11,198 and 11,332 ft. That well has produced a cumulative 1.75 billion cu. ft. of gas, 9,989 bbl. of condensate and 9,927 bbl. of water. 10 Nakoma Petroleum LP, San Antonio, has a Hidalgo County, Texas, discovery. The 10,000-ft. Robertson Gas Unit #1 well tested at 3.3 million cu. ft. of gas and one bbl. of condensate a day on a 10/64-in. choke with 5,180 psi of flowing tubing pressure, the company said. The discovery is three miles south of Pharr, Texas, in Kelly Pharr Subdivision, Lot 273. It produced through perforations between 9,214- 23 ft. and between 9,226 and 9,230 ft. 11 Chevron USA Inc., a division of ChevronTexaco, filed an initial exploration plan with the U.S. Minerals Management Service for the Silvertip project in Alaminos Canyon 815 in the Gulf of Mexico. The tract is in the block immediately north of Block 859, where Unocal recently reported its Tobago discovery and two blocks north of Block 903, where Unocal drilled the Trident discovery. Shell Exploration & Production Inc.'s Great White discovery lies about four miles to the southwest. ChevronTexaco proposes five wells in the southern half of the Silvertip block in water depths from 9,279 to 9,595 ft. 12 Working in state waters off the coast of St. Bernard Parish, La., Houston independent PXP Gulf Coast Inc. completed a wildcat discovery for 6.7 million cu. ft. of gas and 67 bbl. of water a day in Chandeleur Sound Block 58. The #1 State Lease 17405 found gas n the Textularia warreni formation between 9,856 and 9,870 ft. and tested the perforations on a 16/64-in. choke with 4,850 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The company drilled the well to 10,330 ft. and plugged back to 10,188 ft. The only two wells in the block are two wells in the Chandeleur Block 58 Field. That four-well reservoir produced more than 4.3 billion cu. ft. of gas and 52,273 bbl. of water above 8,500 ft. in the 10 years after its discovery in 1980. 13 Kerr-McGee Corp., Oklahoma City, found success in 5,272 ft. of water at its Ticonderoga prospect in Green Canyon 768. It drilled the #1 OCS-G-21817 to a true vertical depth of 13,370 ft. and found 250 ft. of net hydrocarbon pay, primarily oil, in three zones. The company estimated potential reserves between 30- and 50 million bbl. The well is a potential subsea completion with a tieback to the company's Constitution platform, which will be placed about six miles north in Green Canyon 680. 14 The Meridian Resources & Exploration LLC production-tested its #1 Biloxi Marsh Lands "19" in northwestern St. Bernard Parish, La., for 9.1 million cu. ft. of gas through perforations between 10,330-86 ft. Flowing tubing pressure at the well in Section 24-12s-16e was 2,935 psi. The directionally drilled well bottomed in Section 19-12-17e immediately east of the surface location. This is the sixth successful well in the Biloxi Marshlands project area. 15 A south Louisiana well inTerrebonne Parish, La., tested at a maximum rate of 12.4 million cu. ft. of gas and 480 bbl. of condensate with no water for Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Houston. The #1 CL&F "8" reached 94 ft. of pay after bottoming at 14,422 ft. in Section 8-18s-13e. Flowing tubing pressure was 8,998 psi. Cabot is building production facilities and planned to put the well online at a stabilized rate between 15- and 20 million cu. ft. of gas a day. It already has spudded an offset to the discovery. The #1 CL&F "5" well will be drilled to Hollywood at 16,500 ft. measured depth, or 14,500 ft. true vertical depth. The nearest production is 1.5 miles east-northeast in Kent Bayou Field, according to IHS Energy. 16 TMR Exploration Inc., Bossier City, La., has staked a 9,250-ft. wildcat in southern Lamar County, Miss., more than four miles southwest of Purvis. The #1 Tatum in Section 27-2n-15w is more than two miles east-southeast of the nearest drilling and more than 7.5 miles north-northwest of the nearest production in Pistol Ridge Field. The nearest well in that field, the #2 A.A. Pigford in Section 3-1s-14w, flowed 130 bbl. of oil from Tuscaloosa perforations between 8,458-66 ft.