1 Raydon Exploration Inc., Oklahoma City, brought in a Barnett Shale discovery for 61,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from its #A1 Colmer wildcat, drilled more than a mile southwest of the Cleburne city limits in Johnson County, Texas (RRC 5). The company's well in Jackson County School Lands Survey, A-436, was tested after fracturing perforations between 6,803-86 ft. Flowing tubing pressure was 53 psi on a 48/64-in. choke. The nearest well is in nonproducing Cleburne Field 1.75 miles north-northwest. Raydon drilled a wildcat in 2002 about five miles south of the #A1 Colmer in 2002 and tested it for 75,000 cu. ft. of gas a day but never brought the well onstream, according to IHS Energy. 2 Kilgore, Texas-based Carr Resources Inc. has permitted a 6,000-ft. wildcat about 0.75-mile south of the Robertson County boundary line in Milam County, Texas (RRC 5). The #1 A. Smith III, in Daniel B. Friar Survey, A-21, is about 2.5 miles northeast of Branchville and about a half-mile south of the nearest drilling in the same survey. At that location, the #1 Mrs. Eva F. Smith was abandoned at 5,814 ft. in 1949 after an unsuccessful drillstem test. The nearest production is 4.25 miles south-southeast, where the #1 Moore Unit pumped nine bbl. of oil a day from the Austin Chalk in 2000. 3 Daniel Mineral Development Inc., Spring, Texas, plans a wildcat to 5,300 ft. in James M. Doherty Survey, A-224, about eight miles north of Maydelle in northwestern Cherokee County, Texas (RRC 6). The nearest former producer is 1.33 miles south-southwest in Jacksonville Field where the #1 E.S. Bolton produced 654.4 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,423 bbl. of condensate and 41,310 bbl. of water in four years from Rodessa perforations between 8,598 and 8,608 ft. 4 Famcor Oil Inc., Houston, tested its #1 Hood, an apparent discovery in William Hays Survey, A-144, about a mile south of the Shepherd town limits in San Jacinto County, Texas, (RRC 3) from 556,000 cu. ft. of gas, 16 bbl. of condensate and four bbl. of water a day. It did not report the target formation, but produced through a 10/64-in. choke with 1,622 psi of flowing tubing pressure through perforations between 10,912-30 ft. The single-well Napier Field a quarter-mile north-northeast was completed in 1959 flowing gas from Wilcox between 8,155-68 ft. 5 Lapis Operating Inc., Houston, completed the #1 Bobbie B. Moore et al. discovery in northwestern Brazoria County, Texas, (RRC 3) for 8 million cu. ft. of gas a day. The well, immediately southeast of the Alvin city limits in H&W #7 Survey, A-430, was tested through perforations between 11,368-76 ft. through a 9/64-in. choke with 5,400 psi of flowing tubing pressure. Although the operator did not report the producing formation, IHS Energy said the well is about 0.75-mile from three active Frio gas wells in three different fields: the Oliver South, which produces between 11,202-10 ft., the Alvin South, from 11,548-80 ft., and the Rowan Northeast, from 10,832-36 ft. 6 An apparent gas discovery in northeastern Matagorda County, Texas, (RRC 3) tested at a rate of 1 million cu. ft. of gas a day with 19 bbl. of condensate and no water for Houston independent Unit Petroleum Co. The company perforated the #1 Janssen-Schulter, in I&GN Survey RR Co. Survey, A-249, between 8,662-68 ft. in Frio. The nearest previous production is a half-mile east at a former Chalmers Field well. 7 The Exploration Co., San Antonio, Texas, has taken over operations for a 22,400-ft. wildcat near Chittum Field in the Maverick Basin in northern Maverick County, Texas (RRC 1). The #132-1 Taylor 1 is in Section 132, Block 7, I&GN RR Co. Survey, A-334, about 14 miles east of Eagle Pass. It was originally permitted to 18,500 ft. but was later permitted to 22,500 ft. to reach Jurassic-age rocks. The company said this is the first test in the Maverick Basin to reach Jurassic formations. After drilling the well, The Exploration Co. plans to perforate zones between 14,942 and 15,140 ft. and between 15,292 and 15,400 ft. 8 A 7,653-ft. wildcat by Cummins & Walker Oil Co. Inc., Corpus Christi, will look for pay in northwestern Calhoun County, Texas (RRC 2). The #6 PWLR, in Horace Bonny Survey, A-49, is eight miles southeast of Bloomington and more than 0.75-mile southwest of the nearest activity, an abandoned well drilled in 1951. The nearest producing well is in Cummins & Walker's Guajolote Suerte Field, where the most recent well tested at 41 bbl. of oil from Frio between 6,297 and 6,300 ft. 9 Ricochet Energy Inc., Laredo, Texas, completed a discovery in the area of Vaquillas Ranch Field in Webb County, Texas, (RRC 4) for 4 million cu. ft. of gas, 80 bbl. of condensate and 84 bbl. of water a day. The #3 W. Running flowed from Middle Wilcox perforations between 9,598 and 9,744 ft. through a 14/.64-in. choke with 4,194 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well, in EL&RR RR Co. Survey, A-2613, about four miles southeast of Aguilares, is about 0.75-mile southwest of the #1 Vaquillas Ranch Field well, which has produced nearly 69.5 million cu. ft. of gas, 482 bbl. of condensate and 673 bbl. of water since its discovery in 1984. The field has more that 800 producing wells and has recovered some 1.45 trillion cu. ft. of gas, according to IHS Energy. 10 Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, bagged an 18.8-million-cu.-ft.-per-day gas discovery at a sidetrack on the southeastern flank of Hoffman Field in northeastern Duval County, Texas (RRC 4). The #1 Newfield Exploration Conoco Fee, in J.H. Gibson Survey, A-1788, also produced 189 bbl. of water with no condensate from Wilcox fractures between 16,350 and 16,774 ft. with 11,615 psi of flowing casing pressure. Hoffman Field normally produces from Oligocene and Eocene zones shallower than 3,500 ft. 11 ExxonMobil Corp. continued its deep-gas winning streak in south Texas as its #51 King Ranch Canelo discovery tested at 3.7 million cu. ft. of gas, 61 bbl. of condensate and 167 bbl. of water a day from a 16,527-ft. Vicksburg trial. The company drilled the southwestern Kleberg County, Texas, (RRC 4) well in CCSD&RGNG RR Co. Survey, A-114. It was tested from fractures between 15,608 and 15,826 ft. through a 14/64-in. choke with 4,160 psi of flowing casing pressure. The well that ExxonMobil drilled to reestablish production in Canelo Field last May is about 0.66-mile west. The company plans more wells in the area to Vicksburg and Frio. 12 An 18,500-ft. discovery by United Resources LP, Austin, in central Hidalgo County, Texas, (RRC 4) flowed 442,000 cu. ft. of gas and 66 bbl. of water a day. The #1 Black Stone, in Juan Jose Balli Survey, A-290, was tested from Vicksburg fractures between 14,604-42 ft. through a 16/64-in. choke with 482 psi of flowing casing pressure. The nearest production is about 2.25 miles west in the same survey where production was reestablished from Vicksburg in Monte Christo Field, IHS Energy said. 13 Remington Oil and Gas Corp., Dallas, brought in a 5-million-cu.-ft.-equivalent-per-day discovery at its #1 OCS-G-22575 well in East Cameron Block 73 in the Gulf of Mexico. The company drilled the well from a surface location on Vermilion 61 to the east to a depth of 11,498 ft. The company previously drilled a well that tested at 14 million cu. ft. of gas per day in the Vermilion 61 block, according to IHS Energy. 14 Success continued to follow the PXP Gulf Coast Inc., Houston, program in Chandeleur Sound Addition 40, offshore St. Bernard Parish, La., as it drilled its second exploratory well to find 3.8 million cu. ft. of gas and 192 bbl. of water a day with no condensate. The #1 State Lease 17389 wildcat tested Miocene perforations from 4,772-80 ft. through a 22/64-in. choke with 1,404 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The only previous activity on the block was PXP's first well, the #1 State Lease 17812, completed last November for 3.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day. That well was about a mile north of the new discovery. The single-well Chandeleur Sound Block 41 Field us about a mile west. 15 Menoah Petroleum Inc., Downsville, La., has set 27/8-in. casing to 1,941 ft. at its #1 Tensas Delta-Wagner 9-F wildcat near Larto Lake South Field in Catahoula Parish, in northern Louisiana. The wildcat was reaching for Frio gas in Section 9-3n-5e. The company also has staked the #1 Tensas-Deleta-Wagner 4-F well a quarter-mile northeast in Section 4. The nearest production is more than a mile north-northwest of the 9-F well in Largo Lake South Field. That field produces from Wilcox below 6,400 ft. 16 Smith Production Co., Jackson, Miss., flowed 799,000 cu. ft. of gas daily with 23 bbl. of condensate and no water from its #1 Raleigh Newman et ux wildcat in southwestern Allen Parish, La., immediately north of the Jefferson Davis Parish boundary line. The 7,946-ft. directional wildcat was the first well drilled in Section 18-7s-6w and was originally proposed to bottom about a quarter-mile south in Section 19 of Jeff Davis Parish. The discovery produces from Hackberry perforations between 7,665-68 ft. and was tested through an 8/64-in. choke with 2,580 psi of flowing tubing pressure.