Burlington Resources Inc. is running tubing in its Bighorn 6-27 well in Fremont County, Wyo., which set a depth record for the state and the entire Rocky Mountains area, company officials reported Tuesday.
The well, located in Sec 27-T39N-R90W, was drilled to a TD of 25,855 ft on Jan. 7, with a true vertical depth (TVD) of 25,821 ft. That surpasses the previous record of Rainbow Resources Co.�s Federal 34 well, drilled to a TVD of 25,764 ft in Wyoming in1979.
Burlington Resources was drilled for natural gas. Workers ran production casing about a week ago, but the well has not yet been completed or tested, company officials told OGJ Online.
Burlington Resources� Bighorn 5-6 well currently holds the producing depth record for Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains, with its deepest producing interval at 24,938 ft TVD.
The Bighorn 6-27 is expected to break that record also, officials said.