Separate operators are evaluating rank exploratory wells in little-drilled portions of eastern Tennessee and northeastern Alabama.
Miller Petroleum Inc., Huntsville, Tenn., and an undisclosed Appalachian independent spudded a second wildcat in Roane County southwest of Knoxville on the Eureka structure (see map, OGJ, July 28, 2003, p. 38).
The Edwards/Fowler Unit-1 is projected to 5,300 ft to test Ordovician Trenton/Stones River and Knox.
The drillsite is 9,200 ft from the same operators’ Eula Butler et al.-1. Gas from that well is being sold to Powell-Clinch Utility, whose pipeline runs within 1,000 ft of the Butler well, Miller Petroleum said.
That well, drilled to TD 6,190 ft in the Knox, flowed 30 bbl of oil in 12 hr with gas at the rate of 200 Mcfd from an unspecified horizon at 4,300 ft.
Meanwhile, a subsidiary of Dominion Exploration & Production Inc., Richmond, Va., perforated a rank wildcat in nonproducing St. Clair County, Ala. Dominion drilled the Dawson-1 well, in 34-13s-43, to TD 5,970 ft and set casing to nearly that depth, reports Southeastern Oil Review, Jackson, Miss., publication. Dominion perforated at 5,206-5,592 ft.
The wellsite is 40 miles northeast of Birmingham and 55 miles east of the nearest historic gas production in Walker County in the Black Warrior basin. ✦