Area Drilling

May 24, 1999
Halliburton Energy Development Co. acquired part of Citra Paternindo NP's shares in enhanced oil recovery contracts in three fields in South Sumatra. Halliburton operates Abab, Raja, and Dewa fields, near Pendopo, with 50% interest (OGJ, Dec. 28, 1998, p. 54). Isramco Inc., Houston, let a contract to Atwood Oceanics Inc. to drill the Yam West 2 and an optional additional well starting in August 1999. Yam West 2 is to be drilled to 11,483 ft in 2,461 ft of water on the Med Yavne license in

Indonesia

Halliburton Energy Development Co. acquired part of Citra Paternindo NP's shares in enhanced oil recovery contracts in three fields in South Sumatra.

Halliburton operates Abab, Raja, and Dewa fields, near Pendopo, with 50% interest (OGJ, Dec. 28, 1998, p. 54).

Israel

Isramco Inc., Houston, let a contract to Atwood Oceanics Inc. to drill the Yam West 2 and an optional additional well starting in August 1999.

Yam West 2 is to be drilled to 11,483 ft in 2,461 ft of water on the Med Yavne license in the eastern Mediterranean Sea at a cost of $21.2 million.

Isramco also proposes to deepen the Yam 2 well by about 984 ft to 18,702 ft in 305 ft of water on the Yam Ashdod carve-out area on the Med Ashdod license.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhoil let a contract, funded by U.S. Trade and Development Agency, for a study on setting up a national oil and gas E&P database and petroleum information service for Kazakhstan.

Oklahoma University's Sarkeys Energy Center, as prime contractor, will evaluate the technical and economic feasibility, resource requirements, and parameters of such an undertaking. Other U.S. and Kazakh entities will participate.

The study is to be complete by October 1999, said Dennis O'Brien, director of OU's Institute for Energy Economics Policy and project director.

Venezuela

A group led by Tecpetrol de Venezuela SA is drilling the No. 20 well in continuing development of Campo Rosario field, Colon Block, Maracaibo basin.

The No. 18 well's initial production rate is 3,966 b/d of oil from Eocene Mirador at 7,667-7,778 ft. Colon Block production is 12,800 b/d of oil, reports CMS Oil & Gas Co., a partner in the block with Tecpetrol and Coparex Latina de Petroleos SA.

Viet Nam

Anzoil (Asia) Pte. Ltd. said its D14-4A appraisal well in the Hanoi basin cut more than 100 m of gas bearing sandstone reservoirs of modest quality.

Logs showed at least six gas bearing sands at 3,200-3,800 m that warrant evaluation and require careful completion and stimulation.

Anzoil and partner Maurel & Prom, Paris, will cement 7 in. liner.

Gulf of Mexico

Stone Energy Corp., Lafayette, La., is spending about $19 million this year on facilities modification, recompletions, and drilling of five wells in Vermilion Block 255 field.

The field was producing 21.2 MMcfd of gas and 2,900 b/d of oil from multiple sands in April 1999, more than double the 1998 average, after a series of recompletions and new drilling.

Logs from the H5 well on the Attica prospect showed 135 net vertical ft of oil and gas pay in 11 sands, and casing was set to 12,707 ft.

Drilling resumed toward planned TD of 13,650 ft to evaluate the objective K sands.

Stone plans to dually complete H5, which was designed using 3D seismic data to recover attic reserves above multiple depleted wells.


Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, completed an exploratory test on East Cameron Block 2.

The 1 State Lease 14,600 tested at 8.8 MMcfd of gas with 160 b/d of oil from Miocene and was completed. Production is to start at 10 MMcfd in third quarter 1999 after facilities are built.

Interests are Range 51%, British-Borneo Exploration Inc. 30%, and private companies the rest.

California

Royale Energy Inc., San Diego, completed a new pool discovery well in Thornton West-Walnut Grove field in the Sacramento basin.

The 1 Blossom, in 32-5n-5e, San Joaquin County, flowed a stabilized 3.8 MMcfd of gas plus condensate on a restricted choke from the Blossom channel sand (Upper Cretaceous Winters). TD is 7,500 ft. A pipeline connection is due in June.

Royale said the well encountered a channel sand updip from a well Enron drilled in 1992 that had gas shows. It said it integrated well control with seismic to find the productive gas pool in the channel.


Parkcrest Explorations Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., said it is participating in the Rancho Capay gas exploration project in Glenn and Tehama counties of the northern Sacramento basin.

The program on 9,000 acres consists of land acquisition, 3D seismic, and the drilling of four wells as deep as 6,000 ft.

Five targets are identified from 2D seismic.

Separately, Hamar Associates, Ojai, Calif., drilled three exploratory wells in late 1998-early 1999 in 7-26n-4w, Tehama County, 8 miles west of abandoned Red Bank Creek gas field, with depths and results not announced.


In the San Joaquin basin, Royale set production casing in mid-May at the 5C Bowerbank, in 17-29s-24e, Kern County, a directional well in Bowerbank field, where the company has been developing gas reserves for several years.

This well is updip from the 5B well, producing from the Root and Mya sands since April 1997.

Flow remains above 1 MMcfd, and cumulative production exceeds 600 MMcf.

The 5C well is to evaluate the six known sands present in the 5B and a new target sand visible on seismic at 8,000 ft.

Oklahoma

Mannix Oil Co., Tulsa, completed two horizontal coalbed methane wells in the Arkoma basin and has drilled two more such wells, IHS Energy Corp. reported.

The wells, in 9 and 14-8n-19e, Haskell County, tested about 175 Mcfd of gas with water from Pennsylvanian Hartshorne coal at about 1,550 ft TVD. The well in 14 produced from a 1,400 ft lateral.

The wells are about 5 miles north of the county's first successful horizontal well. A 1998 completion, it produced 21 MMcf of gas from Hartshorne coal in its first 4 months on line.


Gulf Production Corp., Oklahoma City, acquired interests from Revere Corp., Fort Smith, Ark., in 19 operated and two nonoperated wells in Midwest City field area, Oklahoma County.

The property, a waterflood candidate, produces 170 b/d of oil and 3 MMcfd of gas from Pennsylvanian Skinner and Red Fork.

Texas

East

Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. plans an offset this month one mile west of a step-out from Dew field, Freestone County, and is looking at as many as five to eight more locations for drilling in the field.

The 1 Evans flowed 4.1 MMcfd of gas on a 14/64 in. choke plus 12 b/d of condensate with 3,105 psi FTP from Jurassic Bossier sandstone perforations at 12,082-362 ft. Mitchell owns a 100% working interest.


The Texas Railroad Commission has cut the frequency of required well tests in supergiant East Texas oil field to every 2 years from annually to help producers save operating costs, IHS Energy reported.


International Oil & Gas Inc., Houston, started a 3D seismic survey on the Hood 5000 prospects in Hood County 11/2 miles west of Tolar.

Grapevine Exploration & Production, the seismic contractor, said previous 2D seismic data indicated potential for a large reef-type structure.

Gulf Coast

Suemaur Exploration LLC, Corpus Christi, and Remington Oil & Gas Corp., Dallas, gauged two gas wells as part of a 110 sq mile proprietary 3D seismic survey acquired in 1998.

Remington anticipates drilling three to five more wells more wells in the area by yearend.

The 1 Rivers/Perry Unit in Nueces County on the Tartan prospect tested 3.7 MMcfd of gas with 60 b/d of condensate from an undisclosed zone. Sales are expected by June 30.

The 1 Berryman Unit et al. went on line in mid-April at 10 MMcfd of gas with 300 b/d of condensate.

Wyoming

Wexpro Co. completed a $5.5 million exploratory test on the 2,500 acre Kinney Unit in the Vermillion Creek area of the Green River basin and was evaluating other potential locations.

The 13-1 Kinney, in 13-13n-100w, Sweetwater County, flowed 8.8 MMcfd of gas on a 44/64 in. choke with 825 psi FTP from Jurassic Nugget and Entrada. TD is 15,396 ft MD.

To go on line in late May, the well has Frontier and Dakota potential behind pipe.

Holding interests are Wexpro, Questar Exploration & Production Co., Marathon Oil Co., and Concho Resources Inc.

The well is 2,000 ft southwest of the 1975 Nugget discovery well. The Kinney Unit has produced more than 47 bcf since 1959 from Nugget, Dakota, and Mesaverde.

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