1 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, continues its exploration program in the Hugoton Embayment of western Kansas by scheduling three new wildcat wells in Stevens County. The #1 HJV Mahoney "A" is planned as a 6,800-ft. Morrow/St. Louis test in Section 2-34s-37w. The well is about 1.5 miles south-southeast of an isolated St. Louis discovery that was made in 1962. Another planned wildcat, the #1 HJV Kenoyer "A" also will go to Morrow and St. Louis. That well, in Section 8-31s-37w, is a mile north-northwest of a well that flowed 1.3 million cu. ft. of gas a day from upper Morrow. The third wildcat is the #4 Metts "A" Section 11-32s-38w, scheduled to 6,350 ft. in Mississippian with Morrow and St. Louis as principal objectives. 2 Oklahoma City firm Russell Oil Inc. completed its #1 Quint "A" discovery two miles southeast of Hill City, Kan., in Section 19-8s-22w, Graham County. The well produced 1,386 bbl. during July, an average 45 bbl. per day from Lansing-Kansas City. Russell drilled its discovery in the one-mile gap between two inactive fields, Highland Southwest and Hill City East, according to IHS Energy. 3 XTO Energy Inc. tested 7.96 million cu. ft. of gas at its #2-18 Alexander, a Cecil Field well in Section 18-9n-28w, Franklin County, Ark. The well flowed 3.4 million cu. ft. of gas a day from the Orr between 5,012-20 ft. through a 32/64-in. choke; 360,000 cu. ft. a day from the Ralph Barton between 4,430-44 ft. on a 24/64-in. choke; and 4.2 million cu. ft. of gas a day from the Dunn "A" formation between 4,372-86 ft. All three zones were stimulated by the Fort Worth-based operator. 4 Freedom Energy Inc., Fort Smith, completed a discovery two miles northwest of Midland, Ark., that flowed at a rate of 1.7 million cu. ft. of gas a day after frac from perforations in the Upper Alma between 3,506-09 ft., 3.515-21 ft. and 3,554-64 ft. The #1 Turnipseed is in Section 14-5n-32w in Sebastian County. The discovery is more than a mile southeast of the easternmost well in Slaytonville Field. 5 An Oklahoma Panhandle discovery drilled by EOG Resources Inc., Houston, tested 3.6 million cu. ft. of gas a day from an untreated Cherokee zone between 4,897 and 4,906 ft., with flowing tubing pressure of 1,010 psi through an open choke. The EOG 25 #1 Jack discovery is about seven miles northeast of Eva, in Section 25-5n-11ecm, Texas County. The well is in the Guymon-Hugoton Gas Area and offsets a 19-year-old test that flowed 2.3 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Lansing-Kansas City. Nearest production from Cherokee is 2.5 miles northwest in Triumph South Field. 6 Marathon Oil Co., Houston, completed a 440-bbl.-per-day offset to Anadarko Basin wells in the Marlow District dating from the 1950s. The company's #2-12 Graves was drilled in Section 12-2n-8w, Stevens County, Okla. It flowed oil with 3.6 million cu. ft. of gas and 10 bbl. of water per day through a 16/64-in. choke from eight, acid-treated intervals of Upper Pennsylvanian Atoka between 15,670 ft. and 15,908 ft. Flowing tubing pressure was 2,400 psi. The nearest Atoka production is in adjacent Section 11-2n-8w, where a well tested at 3.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 364 bbl. of oil and six bbl. of water daily. 7 Okland Oil Co., Oklahoma City, tested 236 bbl. per day of 40-degree-gravity oil at its #1-30 J.R. discovery in Section 30-8n-2w, McClain County, Okla., in the city limits of Goldsby. The well pumped oil after a light acid treatment from Arbuckle, perforated in three intervals between 9,092-9,190 ft. The discovery offsets the 1944 opener of Noble West Field, which produces from six wells in the Bromide, Upper McLish and Oil Creek formations. The nearest production from Arbuckle is in Goldsby East Field a mile north-northeast at a dual Arbuckle/Oil Creek well. Oil Creek did not produce at the Okland well. 8 A Southern Oklahoma discovery from Bromide about three miles south of Wynnewood tested at 1.4 million cu. ft. of gas a day with no fluids for Cascade Energy Investments Inc., Ada, Okla. The #64-1 Joy, Section 1-1n-1e, northern Murray County, flowed gas from two intervals between 2,552-70 ft. through a 64/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 970 psi. The 4,170-ft. wildcat is a mile south-southwest of Wynnewood Field, which produces from Manning at 2,550 ft. and Bromide from 2,800 ft., IHS Energy reports. 9 Thomas C. Mueller Ltd., Fort Smith, plans a 6,500-ft. wildcat in a nonproducing area of the Ardmore Basin west of Calera, Okla. The company's #1-Grey Goose, in irregular Section 22-7s-8e, will test zones from the shallow Pennsylvanian to the Lower Ordovician at about 6,000 ft. The only well in the township with recorded production, according to IHS Energy, was drilled four miles northwest in Section 6-7s-8e. That well established the single-well Mead Field and produced 8,200 bbl. of oil from Arkansas Novaculite before it was abandoned. 10 Cubic Energy Inc., Dallas, a participant in a 3-D development program in Chavez County, N.M., reports that operator Fossil Operating Inc. is drilling to 10,500 ft. to test an objective identified by the seismic in the Devonian. This is the first well in the program. Other partners are Caravel Resources Inc. and Tauren Exploration Inc. The Fossil Operating Federal #1 well is in township 14s-29e. 11 A wildcat drilled 15 miles southwest of Hobbs, N.M., has been completed as a discovery. Roswell operator Read & Stevens Inc. tested the #2 Liberty "4" in Section 4-20s-36e, south-central Lea County, at the rate of 55 bbl. of oil and 507 bbl. of water a day from perforations between 8,250-56 ft. The 9,400-ft. well is near two Devonian wells operated by the company. One of those wells, in Vacuum Northeast Field, was completed in 2001 pumping 482 bbl. of oil a day with a trace of gas and no water. 12 Brigham Oil & Gas LP, Austin, is completing its ultradeep #2097 Mills Ranch in Section 97, Block 13, H&GN Survey, A-74 in Wheeler County, Texas, in the western Anadarko Basin, some 10 miles east-northeast of Shamrock. The company drilled the well to 23,900 ft. and perforated and treated an unreported section of the Hunton. This is a delineation well more than a half-mile northwest of a Hunton producer the company completed in December 2000 to confirm the Fuller Field discovery. That discovery well, the #1097 Mills Ranch in the same section, tested at an initial potential of 8.8 million cu. ft. of gas, 53 bbl. of condensate and 53 bbl. of water per day from three Hunton zones. The well averaged 3.2 million cu. ft. of gas, 27 bbl. of oil and nine bbl. of water a day during September last year. 13 Triumph Exploration Inc., Midland, has reached total depth at its remote Dickens County, Texas, #1 Knight "323" wildcat. The well, proposed to 6,000 ft., is in Section 292, Block 1, H&GN Survey, 1-168. The only nearby production is in Espuela Field more than four miles southeast, where a well was completed pumping 52 bbl. of oil, 15,900 cu. ft. of gas and 72 bbl. of water a day from Tannehill B between 5,068-84 ft., says IHS Energy. 14 Dallas-based E Corp. 2001 Inc. is going for three successes in three tries in 12 months under its 3-D seismic drilling program in Throckmorton and Shackelford counties, Texas. The #1 Putnam 3-D flowed 52 bbl. of oil a day on an 8/64-in. choke from the Mississippian between 4,608-14 ft. The company choked the well back to 4/64-in. to maximize production life and has averaged 25 bbl. per day of oil since October. The well, in Section 11, Comanche Indian Reservation Survey A-980, Throckmorton County, also has pay zones uphole in the Caddo. Under the same 3-D survey, the company's #1 Ft. Griffin flowed 1.6 million cu. ft. of gas through a 22/64-in. choke with a trace of oil from two Caddo zones between 4,106 ft. and 4,234 ft. The discovery is in the TE&L Company Survey 140 in Shackelford County. The company and operator-partner PRL Oil Co., Throckmorton, plan one well each quarter this year based on 3-D seismic survey information. 15 J. Cleo Thompson, Dallas, completed a 92-bbl.-per-day discovery 11 miles northwest of Ozona in central Crockett County, Texas. The #1 Bean "12" is in Section 12, Block UV, GC&SF Survey, A-4840. The well pumped from acidized perforations in Glorieta between 2,439-47 ft. The independent abandoned an 8,200-ft. offset to the well.