1 Phillips Energy Inc., Shreveport, La., completed its #1 Van Duesen discovery in Godfrey Ethridge Survey, A-123, in Marion County, Texas, (RRC District 6) for 1.8 million cu. ft. of gas, 21 bbl. of condensate and 95 bbl. of water a day. The well, some 2.5 miles southwest of Smithland, was tested from fractured perforations between 6,341-97 ft. in Pettet through a 16/64-in. choke with 1,578 psi of flowing tubing pressure after the operator plugged back to 7,160 ft. from a total depth of 7,200 ft. The discovery is a mile south of a Travis Peak producer in the same survey. That well, the #1 Moseley Green, was completed for 3 million cu. ft. of gas and 60 bbl. of condensate a day. 2 Tulsa, Okla.-based independent Zinke & Trumbo Inc. plans an 18,000-ft. wildcat about three miles southeast of Zavalla in southeastern Angelina County, Texas (RRC 6). The company's #1 Sue Morrell, I Mary C. Bissett Survey, A-117, will be a directional well drilled to a bottomhole location a few hundred feet northwest in the same survey. At the surface, the well is a mile east-southeast of the one-well Zavalla Southwest Field. That well tested at 1.6 million cu. ft. of gas per day from the Austin Chalk between 8,590 and 8,760 ft. but was never brought onstream, according to IHS Energy. The field opener for Zavalla Field, 3.25 miles southwest of the wildcat, produced 106.8 million cu. ft. of gas and 2,734 bbl. of condensate from the Austin Chalk during its seven months online. 3 A discovery in Madison County, Texas, (RRC 3) tested at 11.4 million cu. ft. of gas with 640 bbl. of water per day for Anadarko Petroleum, Houston. The horizontal #1 Moffitt Unit in William Moffitt Survey, A-152, found pay in an openhole James Lime interval between 13,500 and 18,795 ft. It was tested through a 24/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 6,315 psi. The discovery is a southwest offset to the closest well in Fort Trinidad Southwest Field in the same survey, but the nearest James Lime production is more than 10 miles east-southeast in Crabbs Prairie Field in Walker County. At that site, Anadarko completed the #1 Riverbend Unit for 16.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day, IHS Energy said. 4 Range Production Co., Houston, completed a wildcat in Francois Bazero Survey, A-305, for 5.1 million cu. ft. of gas, 37 bbl. of condensate and 9 bbl. of water daily. The 14,506-ft. #1 Lloyd Smith et al. is 1.5 miles southeast of Mauriceville in eastern Orange County, Texas (RRC 3). The discovery tested from Yegua perforations between 14,006-50 ft. through an 11/64-in. choke with 9,306 ft. of flowing tubing pressure. The nearest production, also from Yegua, is in Bobcat Run Field, where the #1 Rita Gonzales flowed 5.1 million cu. ft. of gas a day in 1993, according to IHS Energy. 5 A wildcat has been staked by C&E Operating Inc., Sugar Land, Texas, about four miles southeast of Seadrift in north-central Calhoun County, Texas (RRC 2). The company's #1 Melcher, in William J. Russell Survey, A-195, is scheduled to 11,000 ft. The nearest production close to 10,000 ft. is 2.3 miles northwest at the only Vicksburg producer in the area in Long Mott Field, which C&E operates. That 10,039-ft. well produced 62.9 million cu. ft. of gas, IHS Energy reported. 6 The #1 Alta-Kenedy Foundation wildcat resulted in a 742,000-cu.-ft.-per-day discovery with 42 bbl. of condensate and 43 bbl. of water in central Jim Hogg County, Texas (RRC 4). Tepee Petroleum Co., Dallas, tested the well through Queen City/Wilcox perforations between 9,606-46 ft. with 1,050 psi of flowing tubing pressure through an 18/64-in. choke. The discovery is in Antonio Silva Survey, A-285. The nearest Queen City production is in T-Bird Field some 4.25 miles northeast of the discovery. 7 Ballard Exploration Co. Inc., Houston, completed a wildcat some 12 miles southwest of Falfurrias in northwestern Brooks County, Texas, (RRC 4) flowing 85 bbl. of oil and 250,000 cu. ft. of casinghead gas daily. The company tested its #1 Betsy Bennert in Ysidora Guerra Survey, A-258, from perforations between 6,037-47 ft. after plugging back from 6,212 to 6,056 ft. It reached the top of Vicksburg at 6,040 ft. Ballard has another exploratory test about 1.6 miles north-northeast in the same survey. Nearby production is from Frio zones shallower than 5,340 ft., said IHS Energy. 8 U.S. Energycorp LLC, San Antonio, discovered gas at a rate of 1.5 million cu. ft. a day with 17 bbl. of condensate and 59 bbl. of water in its #1 James R. Studebaker wildcat, 2.6 miles southeast of Raymondville, in southwestern Willacy County, Texas (RRC 4). The 16,000-ft. well, in Lot 7, Block 39, San Jose Narcisco Cabazos Survey, A-8, produced from three sets of fractured Frio zones between 14,124 and 15,316 ft. The well, about a mile northeast of the Hidalgo County line, gauged 935 psi of flowing tubing pressure through a 20/64-in. choke. Comparable production is 3.75 miles north-northeast in La Sal Vieja Field. 9 In the Gulf of Mexico, Forest Oil Corp., Denver, completed its #1 OCS-G-21536 in West Cameron Block 112 for 15.4 million cu. ft. of gas and 322 bbl. of condensate a day after drilling to 15,325 ft. The company said it plans to bring the well online in the third quarter this year at a rate between 20- and 25 million cu. ft. of gas equivalent per day. Forest will install a four-pile "A" platform in the southeast corner of the block to produce wells from Block 112. 10 Remington Oil & Gas Corp., Dallas, is producing its #1 OCS-G-22726 discovery in the northeastern portion of Ship Shoal 322 for 13 million cu. ft. of gas and 700 bbl. of condensate daily. The 7,300-ft. well reached 134 ft. of gross sand, according to The Wiser Oil Co., also of Dallas, a 25% partner in the well. The well tested last December at a rate of 16 million cu. ft. of gas a day from the Prairie between 6,876-93 ft. The company installed a subsea tree over the well and plans a 6-in. gas tieback to the "A" platform operated by Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, on the same block. 11 A discovery in state waters offshore St. Bernard Parish, La., tested at 3.5 million cu. ft. of gas a day with no liquids for PXP Gulf Coast Inc., an arm of Plains Exploration & Production Co., Houston. The #1 State Lease 17388 is in Chandeleur Sound Addition Block 28. PXP tested the well from Cibicides carsteni perforations between 4,152-57 ft. through a 17/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 1,500 psi. The company also has staked the #2 State Lease 17388 about 1.25 miles southeast. That well is projected to 4,700 ft. 12 Samson Resources Co., Tulsa, has permitted a 10,500-ft. Cotton Valley wildcat in northeastern DeSoto Parish in northern Louisiana. The #1 Gillespie "18" is about 2.75 miles southwest of the corner of DeSoto, Red River and Caddo parishes. The location is in previously undrilled Section 18-14n-12w. The nearest production is about two miles north-northwest in Caspiana Field, which produces from Cotton Valley. 13 A 16,000-ft.-measured-depth (15,750-ft. vertical depth) wildcat has been permitted by Louisiana Land & Exploration Co., Houston. The #1 LL&E Fee, in Section 24-22s-16e, Terrebonne Parish, La., will target Upper and Middle Miocene with a bottomhole location in neighboring Section 23. The nearest producer, also drilled by Louisiana Land & Exploration, is nearly 2.75 miles north-northeast in Salt Bay Field. In its first two months onstream, the 9,200-ft. well produced 140.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 736 bbl. of condensate. Another 0.75-mile east-northeast, the nearest well in the company's Four Isle Dome Field was completed for 8.2 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Upper Miocene between 13,090 and 13,115 ft. 14 Will-Drill Production Co. Inc., Shreveport, La., plans a 16,500-ft. wildcat in Section 23-2n-16w in southwestern Lamar County, Miss. The #1 Puckett "28-11" is about 2.5 miles north-northwest of the deepest well and the only Hosston producer in Baxterville Field. That well, the #55 J.M. Andrew, showed an initial potential of 270,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from perforations between 13,569 and 13,988 ft. in the early 1980s. The well has produced 86,804 bbl. of oil and 548.1 million cu. ft. of gas. 15 Moon-Hines-Tigrett Operating Co., Ridgeland, Miss., staked two wildcats in western Forrest County, Miss. The #1 Hood is in Section 31-2n-13w and is scheduled to the Lower Tuscaloosa at 9,200 ft. The #1 Robinson is a half-mile southeast in Section 32. That well will test Washita-Fredericksburg at 10,200 ft. Although the nearest drilling is about a mile north-northwest of the #1 Hood, the nearest production is six miles south in Pistol Ridge Field, which produces mainly from Tuscaloosa/Washita-Fredericksburg. That field has been producing since 1951 and has given operators 7.8 million bbl. of liquids and 367.2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas with 14.2 million bbl. of water from more than 80 wells. Production from that field also extends into Pearl River County, immediately west.