Indonesia
Equatorial Energy Inc., Calgary, plans to acquire a 3D seismic survey and drill 6 wells in second half 2000 in Sembakung field in the Tarakan basin of Northeast Kalimantan.
Equatorial drilled three wells in the field in first half 2000, hiking production to more than 4,000 b/d of 37° gravity sweet crude. SBK-15, the first drilled in the field in 19 years, stabilized early this year flowing 2,400 b/d of oil from 3,222-62 ft and cut 256 ft of potential pay.
The company operates the field under a technical assistance contract with Pertamina. Production infrastructure can handle more than 10,000 b/d.
Texas - Gulf Coast
Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., is drilling a second Lower Wilcox fault block wildcat in Lake Creek field, Montgomery County.
Mitchell just completed a discovery in an adjoining, previously untested fault block. Drilled to 14,800 ft, it cut 90 net ft of gas pay in Lower Wilcox sand and flowed a combined 7.5 MMcfd of gas from two zones.
Two other exploratory wells just north of Lake Creek field each averaged 3 MMcfd of gas from multiple pays in Frio and Yegua at 5,000-6,000 ft.
The three wellsites are in a 54-sq-mile, 1998 3D seismic survey that identified a 1,200-acre Lower Wilcox structure on Mitchell's 47,000-acre lease block and several shallower prospects.
