1 Rival Resources Inc., Bellingham, Wash., has permitted five new-field wildcats in Whatcom County, Wash., near the border with British Columbia. All the wells are planned to a depth of 500 ft. and all are looking for coalbed methane. The #BB-1 Rival is in Section 15-39n-2e, about 6.5 miles north-northwest of Bellingham. The #BB-2 Rival is in Section 22 of the same township and range, about a mile closer to Bellingham. The #BB-3 Rival is in Section 28 of the same township, about five miles from the town, and the #BB-5 Rival is in Section 14-39n-3e, about eight miles northeast of Bellingham, says IHS Energy. 2 Piney Creek Land & Royalty Co., Denver, applied for a permit to reenter a deep exploratory well for Savant Resources LLC, also of Denver, in Section 9-15n-25e, Grant County, Wash. The company plans to reenter the #1-9 BN, a remote wildcat well drilled in the 1980s. The location is about seven miles southwest of Royal City and 40 miles east-northeast of Yakima. The original well was drilled to 17,518 ft., and tested through perforations between 12,694 and 14,678 ft. Gas flows were recorded at rates up to 3.1 million cu ft a day. Piney Creek will look at the Eocene Roslyn at 13,372 to 13,388 ft. and four Kittitas intervals between 12,694 and 12,880 ft. The nearest production is 175 miles south-southwest in Mist Field in Columbia County, Ore. 3 Output Exploration LLC, Stafford, Texas, has brought in a discovery in Yolo County, Calif. The company drilled the #1-33 Fahn to 8,380 ft. total depth and tested 2.3 million cu. ft. of gas from the Winters sand through a 12/64-in. choke with flowing tubing pressure of 2,830 psi. The discovery, in Section 33-6n-3e, is about two miles north of Liberty Cut Field and 3.75 miles west of Courtland, Calif. 4 Natural gas in the Ferron sand is the objective of the #3-5-14-8 Gordon Creek State, planned by Denver independent Klabzuba Oil & Gas Inc. The permit application calls for a 4,000-ft. wildcat in Section 5-14s-8e, about nine miles north of Hiawatha in Carbon County, Utah. The well is two miles north-northeast of a well operated by the company on the northern flank of Gordon Creek Field. The 3,605-ft. #4-18-14-8 Gordon Creek-State flowed 1 million cu. ft. of gas per day from fractured "C" Ferron between 3,243 and 3,308 ft. The company is working a delineation program to find the limits of Gordon Creek Field and has staked locations for three more 4,000-ft. wells in Section 7-14s-8e. The 55-year-old field has produced 235 million cu. ft. of gas from Ferron and Moekopi intervals and carbon dioxide from Sinbad and Coconino. It is about three miles west of Ferron coalbed-methane production in Drunkard's Wash Field, according to IHS Energy. 5 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, plans a 9,100-ft. Entrada wildcat about 34 miles north of Cisco, Utah, on the southeastern flank of the Uinta Basin. The application calls for the company to drill the #1-34 Horse Point-State in partial section 34 of partial township 15.5s-23e in northeastern Grand County. The closest producer is a mile west in Fence Canyon Field, where the #3 Fence Canyon Unit in Section 33-15.5s-23e has produced a cumulative 1.02 billion cu. ft. of gas from the Dakota between 7,978 and 8,010 ft. and the Buckhorn from 8,079 to 8,106 ft. 6 A dual-lateral horizontal wildcat has been permitted by Headington Oil LP, Dallas. The #31X-19 Halvorsen, about 15 miles northeast of Sidney in Richland County, Mont., will test the Bakken formation from a surface location in Section 19-24n-57e. The first lateral will drill north-northeast to a measured depth of 15,660 ft. and a bottomhole location in Section 18-24n-57e. Some 4,953 ft. of open hole should be in the Bakken. The second lateral will reach south-southeast to a measured depth of 4,339 ft. and a bottomhole location in Section 19. The nearest Bakken production is in a horizontal well in Section 30-24n-57e, which tested at 267 bbl. of oil, 112,000 cu. ft. of gas and 33 bbl. of water a day, according to IHS Energy. 7 True Oil LLC, Casper, Wyo., will drill two shallow wildcat wells to Cretaceous in a nonproducing area of Carter County, Mont. The locations are between 22 and 26 miles south-southwest of the town of Ekalaka. The #14-7 Campen-Federal will be drilled to 2,100 ft. in Section 7-3s-57e, and the #44-36 Bibler-State is projected to 2,000 ft. in Section 36-3s-56e. The wells are 25 to 30 miles north of gas production from Hammond Field, which produced gas from the Muddy before it was shut in. 8 Onyx Oil Co. LLC, Billings, Mont., plans a 5,200-ft. wildcat aimed at Madison intervals in Renville County, N.D. The #5-27 McCarroll Ranch is in Section 27-162n-86w, about two miles south-southeast of the discovery well for Grover Field. That 1991 Williston Basin well tested at 25 bbl. of oil, and 4,000 cu. ft. of gas with 120 bbl. of water a day from the Sherwood member of the Mission Canyon (Madison) between 4,956-59 ft. During the past 12 years, that discovery well has produced 30,388 bbl. of oil, 4.75 million cu. ft. of gas and 145,800 bbl. of water. 9 Kodiak Petroleum Inc., Englewood, Colo., plans the #1 Peterson wildcat in an undrilled township about two miles east of Braddock in Emmons County, N.D. The remote well, in Section 30-136n-74w, is more than 100 miles east-southeast of the nearest production in fields in southeastern Stark County. The site is within nine miles of two dry holes that had hydrocarbon shows. This could be the start of an exploration play, according to IHS Energy. A large number of tracts in the area 35 miles southeast of Bismarck have been nominated for leasing at the next state lease sale. 10 Samson Resources Co., Tulsa, completed a wildcat discovery in the Absaroka Thrust area about five miles southwest of Kemmerer, Wyo. The #11-16 Bear River Divide-State is an Upper Cretaceous Adaville (partially equivalent to Meseverde) in Section 15-20n-117w, Lincoln County. During its first three months online, the well produced 93.9 million cu. ft. of gas, 1,034 bbl. of condensate and 536 bbl. of water. There is no Adaville production in the area, and the nearest production is four miles south-southeast where the discovery well for Elkol Field was completed in 1985 as a non-commercial oil producer from the Chalk Creek (Frontier). Samson completed an Adaville well about three miles north and plans a sidetrack at that well. It also has proposed a northwest offset. 11 Gas flowed at a rate of 2 million cu. ft. a day into the sales line at a Lance discovery drilled by BP America Production Co. The company's #15-23 Antelope is in Section 23-29n-107w, Sublette County, Wyo. The well is 3.5 miles east of Lance gas production on the eastern flank of Jonah Field. 12 Wexpro Co., Salt Lake City, completed its #22 South Baxter Unit exploratory well in Section 5-15n-104w in Sweetwater County, Wyo., at a rate of 12 million cu. ft. of gas a day with no fluids from an unstimulated Dakota interval between 3,570 and 3,602 ft. The company tested the well through a 44/64-in. choke with 1,000 psi of casing pressure. The well is more than a half-mile north of abandoned Little Worm Creek Field, which produced some 4.36 billion cu. ft. of gas and 114,000 bbl. of condensate from Dakota and Lakota between 1957 and 1989. 13 Dyad Petroleum Co., Midland, will drill a rank wildcat at the #1-18 Rampart-Federal in Section 17-11s-67w, El Paso County, Colo., about 1.5 miles south of the town of Palmer Lake. The county has no current production, and the location is 34 miles from the nearest producing well. The well, which is on the southwestern edge of the DJ Basin, will test Cretaceous Pierre, Dakota and Permian Lyons. 14 A remote location in McPherson County, Neb., is the site of a wildcat planned by Dallas-based Lyco Energy Corp. The #15-1 Tryon-Doyle will be drilled in Section 15-18n-32w, about 28 miles north-northwest of North Platte. Its objective is the Lower Cretaceous Dakota at about 2,200 ft. The nearest production is a Dakota gas discovery, now inactive, about 12 miles south-southwest in Lincoln County, according to IHS Energy. 15 Synergy Operating LLC, Farmington, N.M., plans a four-well exploration program to find Mesaverde oil in the southeastern San Juan Basin some 21 miles west of Cuba in Sandoval County, N.M. The wells are the #2-22, #3-22, #4-22 and #5-22 Bois d'Arc-Divide, all in Section 22-21n-5w. Nearest production is in Franciscan Lake Field about five miles southwest in McKinley County.