1 Vintage Petroleum Inc., Tulsa, has staked a location in Section 12-20s-19e, Kings County, Calif., for a remote wildcat. The company's #1 Fabry Trust, 2.25 miles northwest of Stratford, is 7.5 miles east of the abandoned Westhaven Field and 11 miles north of producing Tulare Lake Field. The operator did not reveal the well depth or target formation, according to IHS Energy. 2 Ivanhoe Energy (USA) Inc., Bakersfield, Calif., an affiliate of Calgary-based Ivanhoe Energy Ltd., plans two wildcats in the Antelope Hills Field area in Kern County, Calif. Both the #1 Pistachio and #2 Pistachio are in Section 32-27s-20e. The #1 Pistachio is 9.75 miles southwest of Lost Hills and a mile east of the Hopkins area of Antelope Hills Field, and the #2 Pistachio is 10 miles southwest of Lost Hills and a half-mile north of the abandoned Nepple gas area of Antelope Hills Field. 3 Potential production has persuaded the Pannonian Energy Inc. arm of Gasco Energy Inc., Englewood, Colo., to set production casing at 11,430 ft. at its #31-21-11-15 Gate Canyon State wildcat in Section 21-11s-15e, Duchesne County, Utah. The well, on the southwestern flank of the Uinta Basin, was designed as a test of Blackhawk (Mesaverde). There is no other production in the township. The well site is about four miles north-northwest of Nine Mile Canyon Field, where the #1 Pickarel-Government in Section 11-12s-15e showed an initial potential of 2.4 million cu. ft. of gas a day from Wasatch perforations between 3,782 and 4,044 ft. The operator also tested Mesaverde between 6,983 and 7,198 ft. for up to 27,000 cu. ft. of gas a day. Pannonian also has staked a test 0.75-mile west of its well. The# 41-20-11-15 Gate Canyon is scheduled to 11,700 ft., IHS Energy reported. 4 The horizontal Bakken play in Richland County, Mont., continues its reputation as a hot spot in the Rocky Mountain region as Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., has asked for a drilling permit for a dual-lateral wildcat in Section 9-23n-56e. At a location some 18 miles west-northwest of Sidney, the first leg of the #1-9H Prevost will reach a measured depth of 16,360 ft. with a true vertical depth of 10,274 ft., while the second lateral will reach 15,879 ft. with a true vertical depth of 10,289 ft. Continental did not reveal the direction of the laterals. The nearest production comes from the #34X-11 Bahls dual-lateral Bakken discovery some 2.5 miles west. That well tested at 452 bbl. of oil, 226,000 cu. ft. of gas and 28 bbl. of water a day. Its first lateral extended to the south-southeast and the second to the north-northeast. In the same play, Lyco Energy Corp., Dallas, Texas, plans a single-lateral horizontal Bakken wildcat about 10 miles south-southeast of Poplar in northwestern Richland County, Mont. The #27-16-H Grinnell-Johnston Farms, in Section 27-26n-51e, will go to a bottomhole location almost two miles north-northwest in Section 22 of the same township. The new well is a mile west of the westernmost well drilled to date in the horizontal Bakken play. Lyco also has scheduled two more horizontal wildcats in the county, the #25-16-H-Boulderstone in Section 26-26n-51e and the #11-15 Swiftcurrent-Colgan in Section 11-26n-41e. 5 Southwestern Energy Production Co., Houston, has spudded its remote #9-1 Rosebud Angus Ranch in Section 9-3s-18e, Stillwater County, Mont. The wildcat is 4.5 miles north-northwest of the town of Absarokee in the Reed Point Syncline. It is reaching for 4,500 ft. to test the Eagle and Frontier formations. The nearest production to the undrilled township was from the abandoned Dean Dome Field 15 miles south-southwest. That field produced 105,732 bbl. of oil, 9.9 million cu. ft. of gas and 20,757 bbl. of water from Lower Cretaceous Greybull above 3,300 ft. 6 Golden Eye Resources LLC, Denver, is seeking permission to drill a wildcat, as yet unnamed, about six miles north-northwest of Tolley in Renville County, N.D. The proposed well is in Section 32-162n-86w. Some 2.5 miles south-southwest lies McKinney Field, and Tolley Field lies about the same distance southeast. Both fields produce from Madison zones. 7 A horizontal wildcat to Madison resulted in a discovery for Zinke & Trumbo Inc., Tulsa. The #1-23 Ruth, in Section 23-150n-102w, McKenzie County, N.D., flowed 283 bbl. of oil and 198 bbl. of water a day from a 4,313-ft. open-hole horizontal lateral in the Mission Canyon member of the Madison. The company reported 6% porosity in a 20-ft. section with 90% water saturation, according to IHS Energy. The company estimated reserves at 447,981 bbl. of oil. 8 Houston-based EOG Resources Inc. brought in a discovery with its #1-7 Copperhead in Section 7-40n-76w in northwestern Converse County, Wyo. The well, on the southwestern flank of the Powder River Basin, flowed 504 bbl. of oil, 627,000 cu. ft. of gas and four bbl. of water a day from fractured Frontier between 12,475 and 12,505 ft. EOG tested the well through a 16/64-in. choke with 1,030 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The discovery is three miles west of Finley Draw Field. 9 El Paso Production Oil & Gas Co., Houston, completed a wildcat on the Owl Creek Thrust as a discovery flowing gas at a combined rate of 1.2 million cu. ft. a day with 283 bbl. of water from two fractured Shannon zones. The #1-2 (Alt.1) Hoodoo Hills Unit is in Section 2-39n-93w, about 11 miles northeast of Shoshoni in northeastern Fremont County, Wyo. It is producing from perforations between 12,872 and 12,910 ft. and between 13,522-38 ft. Deeper perforations into the subthrust Frontier below 17,918 ft. were closed off by bridge plugs. 10 Abraxas Petroleum Corp., San Antonio, recovered an unspecified amount of oil from the Muddy sand at its #1-12-38-67 Prairie Falcon wildcat in Section 12-38n-67w in northwestern Niobrara County, Wyo. The well, about 43 miles northeast of Douglas, was fractured and Abraxas is installing a pumping unit. The company planned the well as a 9,500-ft. test of Niobrara, Turner, Mowry, Muddy and Dakota. It is 1.5 miles east of the discovery well for Brooks Draw Field, IHS Energy said. 11 A wildcat discovery in the Red Desert Basin in Sweetwater County, Wyo., flowed 534,000 cu. ft. of gas, 19 bbl. of condensate and 433 bbl. of water daily for BP America Production Co., Houston. The #13-2 Red Lake-Fee is in Section 12-22n-96w, about 19 miles northwest of Wamsutter. It produced from fractured zones in Lewis between 9,685 and 9,739 ft. and in Mesaverde between 10,040 and 10,184 ft. The nearest present production is from Lewis in Great Divide Field about 1.5 miles east. 12 EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Denver, has asked for a permit for a 12,000-ft. Mesaverde wildcat looking for gas in Colorado's Piceance Basin, about 20 miles north-northeast of Parachute in Rio Blanco County. The #8607A X02 497 Double Willow Unit in Section 2-4s-96w is 1.5 miles south of a well that produces oil from Green River above 2,500 ft. in Piceance Creek South Field. The closest Mesaverde production is seven miles northwest, where the #14-44 Scandard Draw was completed flowing 1.2 million cu. ft. of gas, 22 bbl. of condensate and nine bbl. of water a day, according to IHS Energy. EnCana also asked for a permit for the 14,000-ft. #8812C X20 397 Eureka in Section 20-3s-97w. 13 Huntington Energy LLC, Oklahoma City, plans a remote 5,400-ft. wildcat six miles north-northeast of Holly in Prowers County, Colo., about 2.5 miles west of the Kansas border. The #1 Wright-B is in Section 13-22s-42w in the northwestern Hugoton Basin and will test Pennsylvanian Morrow. The well is about nine miles west of Permian Chase gas production above 2,600 ft. in Kansas. The closest Morrow production is 12 miles north-northwest in North Buffalo Field. 14 Denver-based Ansbro Petroleum Co. is drilling ahead at a remote wildcat on the Chadron Arch some 34 miles northeast of Oshkosh in southwestern Grant County, Neb. The #41-24 Lowe Ranch, in Section 24-21n-40w, is approximately 32 miles northeast of the closest production in Richards and Jackson fields in Garden County. 15 Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp., Oklahoma City, is drilling its second directional wildcat near Spy Island north of Oliktok Point in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska's North Slope. The #2 Nikaitchuq started at a surface location in Section 22-14n-9e, Umiat Meridian, and will bottom north-northeast in Section 14 of the same township. The company drilled the #1 Nikaitchuq, also directional, 1.5 miles west-northwest but didn't report results, but Kerr-McGee and partner Armstrong Alaska Inc. have applied for approval of the Nikaitchuq Unit north of the Kuparuk and Milne Point units.