1 Oxy Resources California LLC, Tupman, Calif., completed an outpost well in Section 27-4n-5e in San Joaquin County, Calif., for 1.26 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Mokelumne/Mokelumne River between 4,570-76 ft. The #2 Robinson-Stanford is about 2.75 miles east of River Island Field and 6.5 miles west of Woodbridge. It is a northwest offset to the #1 Robinson-Stanford, which was completed in Section 28 and went to a total measured depth of 4,880 ft. (total vertical depth 4,084 ft.) 2 Bakersfield-based independent Trio Petroleum Inc. has staked a new-field wildcat with its #1 Oro Fino in Section 3-25s-10e in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. The well is 10.5 miles south of San Ardo Field and 7.75 miles west-southwest of Nacimiento. 3 Solaris Exploration, Houston, completed a Paradox Basin discovery some nine miles east of Green River, Utah, pumping 35 bbl. of oil and 65 bbl. of water per day. The #1-32 State is in Section 32-21s-19e, Grand County, and produces from fracture-stimulated Jurassic Kayenta between 3,962-96 ft. The nearest production from a Jurassic zone is 15 miles northeast in the Greater Cisco area, according to IHS Energy, and the nearest production is four miles southeast at inactive Blaze Canyon Field, which produced from Navajo. 4 Houston-based EOG Resources Inc. tapped an oil-saturated zone at its #15-23H Irigoin wildcat in Section 23-25n-53e, Richland County, Mont., about 21 miles southeast of Poplar. The company drilled vertically to 9,578 ft., cored the Bakken dolomite between 9,389 ft. and 9,450 ft., and kicked off at 9,049 ft. for a horizontal lateral to 13,850 ft. in the same section. Completion operations are under way. The well is about two miles south-southwest of Charlie Creek Field, discovered in 1997. That well initially pumped 70 bbl. of oil and 20,000 cu. ft. of gas with 10 bbl. of water a day from Bakken. Also in Richland County, Headington Oil LP, Dallas, plans two horizontal Bakken exploratory tests as part of a large program. A 14,475-ft. test is staked in Section 34-25n-53e, about 25 miles southwest of Culbertson. That well is almost 3.5 miles northwest of Two Waters Field, discovered in 1982. There, a well initially pumped 35 bbl. and 30,000 cu. ft. of gas a day with six bbl. of water. Another well planned by Headington is a 15,270-ft. test in Section 14-24n-54e, a mile and a half northwest of a 1989 discovery that flowed 83 bbl. of oil and 61,000 cu. ft. of gas a day from Bakken. 5 GeoResources Inc., Williston, N.D., has moved a rig on site to drill its #1-26 Boll wildcat in Section 26-161n-78w in Bottineau County, N.D. The company wants to test Madison at 3,400 ft. The nearest production is from an inactive well a mile north that was drilled to 3,276 ft. in the Madison Midale zone. That South Starbuck Field well was completed in 1979 producing 75 bbl. of oil per day. 6 FH Petroleum Corp., Billings, Mont., has staked a wildcat aimed at Red River at 12,800 ft. on the Billings Nose a mile north-northeast of Sentinel Butte in Golden Valley County, N.D. The FH #23-3BR, in Section 3-142n-103w, is a northwest offset to a 12,744-ft. dry hole drilled and plugged in 1979. The nearest production is 2.5 miles northeast in Beaver Creek Field, where the #42-25 R. Williamson-Federal produced 152,036 bbl. of oil, 166.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 128,050 bbl. of water before it was recompleted in a shallower Duperow zone in 1988. 7 EnCana Energy Resources Inc., Calgary, claimed a discovery with its #12 Reynard Unit in Section 3-20n-113e, on the Moxa Arch in Lincoln County, Wyo. The company initially completed the well in Frontier between 11,252-83 ft. but couldn't find commercial amounts of gas, so it went to Muddy perforations between 12,000-43 ft. After stimulation, the well produced 568,000 cu. ft. of gas, 85 bbl. of oil and five bbl. of water a day. The discovery is about 1.5 miles southeast of Whiskey Butte Field. 8 Another Red Desert Basin discovery has been added to BP America Production Co.'s long list. The Houston-based operator's #35-1 Battle Springs was drilled in Section 35-23n-94w, northeastern Sweetwater County, Wyo. The well, about 20 miles north of Wamsutter, flowed at an initial 1.85 million cu. ft. of gas and 285 bbl. of condensate daily on recompletion. The discovery produces from fractured Lewis between 10,131-41 ft. through a 64/64-in. choke with 775 psi of casing pressure. The company originally completed the well for 457,000 cu. ft. of gas and 156 bbl. of condensate a day from five fractured Mesaverde zones between 11,879 ft. and 12,209 ft. The well now produces from both intervals. The discovery is 2.5 miles north of Siberia Ridge Field, which also produces from Lewis and Mesaverde, according to IHS Energy. 9 In a multizone discovery in southeastern Sweetwater County, Wyo., BP America Production Co., Houston, tested 735,000 cu. ft. of gas per day through a 24/64-in. choke after a sand gel frac job. The #3-1 Kinney Springs, in Section 3-16n-98w, is about 29 miles southwest of Wamsutter. It produces from three Lance intervals, four Lewis intervals and three Mesaverde intervals. The 11,958-ft. discovery is about 2.5 miles northwest of the 1978 Iron Pipe Field discovery, which produced from Mesaverde. 10 Peter K. Roosevelt, Denver, has staked a shallow wildcat about 4.5 miles south of Edgemont and the same distance east of Igloo Field in Fall River County, S.D. The #9-36 State, in Section 36-9s-2e, is scheduled to test the Newcastle (Muddy) sand at 1,000 ft. Both Igloo Field and Porter Ranch field, four miles northwest of the Roosevelt well, produce oil from Leo. The company also has staked the #10-35 Fritz-Dahl in Section 35-8s-2e, a 2,500-ft. Leo wildcat about six miles north-northwest of the #9-36 State. 11 ExxonMobil Corp., Irving, has completed several discoveries in the Piceance Creek area of the northern Piceance Basin some 30 to 35 miles north of Parachute, Colo., according to IHS Energy. One well, the #T33X-29G Piceance Creek Unit, in Section 29-1s-96w in central Rio Blanco County, tested at an initial rate of 1.92 million cu. ft. of gas, 19 bbl. of condensate and 108 bbl. of water a day. The company commingled production from the Ohio Creek sand and Mesaverde. The well originally was a 16,000-ft. Mesaverde test. Seven miles southeast, ExxonMobil completed its #F27X-8G Piceance Creek Unit in Section 8-2s-95w for 1.28 million cu. ft. of gas a day after stimulation from the Iles member of the Mesaverde between 14,280 ft. and 16,396 ft. Before the current wells, only two wells had been drilled below 13,000 ft. in Piceance Creek Field. The major also has completed the #T78X-12G Piceance Creek Unit in Section 12-2s-97w for 1.56 million cu. ft. of gas a day and the #T76X-13 G Piceance Creek Unit in Section 13-2s-96w and is drilling the #T57X-19G Piceance Creek Unit in Section 19-2s-96w. 12 A southeastern Colorado wildcat resulted in a discovery for Murfin Drilling Co., Wichita, Kan. The Las Animas Arch well is a mile southwest of Granada in Section 14-23s-44w, Prowers County, Colo. Although no test figures were released, the well was scheduled to Mississippian at 5,500 ft. and probably produces from Pennsylvanian Morrow sand. The discovery is in a nonproducing township some seven miles southeast of the nearest Morrow production in Clyde Field. 13 Twining Drilling Corp., Albuquerque, N.M., was drilling below 11,700 ft. at press time on the #2 NAT wildcat in Section 27-4n-1e in the Albuquerque-Belen Basin in northern Socorro County, N.M. The well is scheduled to Entrada at 15,000 ft. This well is about a half-mile south-southeast of Twining's #1 NAT in Section 22 of the same township. That well currently is being completed. The two wells are about 80 miles south-southeast of the nearest production in Miguel Creek Field in McKinley County, N.M., in the San Juan Basin. 14 BP Exploration (Alaska) has asked the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas for permission to expand its Milne Point Unit and the nearby Schrader Bluff participating area by some 1,280 acres in sections 5 and 8 in 12n-11e, Umiat Meridian, along the southeast border of the Milne Point Unit. Milne Point is northwest of the Prudhoe Bay Unit on Alaska's North Slope. The area slated for expansion contains some 10.9 million bbl. of proven Schrader Bluff oil reserves. Development of the expansion will be conducted through BP's new Milne Point S pad, which will handle 14 production wells and 20 injection wells.