CrownQuest Operating, LLC, Midland, Texas, plans to drill 6,375-ft. #1-17 Sun Devil-Federal in the Paradox Basin about 10 miles east-southeast of Blanding in southeastern Utah in Section 17-37s-24e, San Juan County. The wildcat will target the Ismay and Desert Creek members of Paradox (Pennsylvanian). It is 1.25 miles southeast of the Alkali Point Field discovery, where #1 Shane-Federal produced 184.5 million cu. ft. of gas and 348 bbl. of condensate from Ismay between September 1989 and May 2007. Deadman Canyon Field, which also produces from Ismay, is almost 1.5 miles south, reports IHS Inc.
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