By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, July 25 -- Several independents are drilling wells in a shallow basin-centered gas play in the Uinta basin 50 miles southeast of Vernal.
A group led by Huntford Resources Corp., Englewood, Colo., started the play earlier this year with completion of three wells flowing gas from overpressured Eocene Lower Wasatch.
Huntford's 16 Quest in 21-11s-25e, Uintah County, flowed 1.429 MMcfd of gas without stimulation on a 20/64 in. choke from perforations at 2,144-59 ft. Huntford completed two other Wasatch gas wells to the south and east and is drilling another north-northeast of the first.
The state in late June established 40-acre spacing that covers the shallow formations on 800 acres around Huntford's wells, notes Soho Resources Corp., Vancouver, B.C. Soho holds interests in the area.
Dominion Exploration & Production Inc., Richmond, Va., has staked four locations that offset two of Huntford's wells.
Soho said the Quest project initially targets gas in Wasatch and Cretaceous Castlegate and Mesaverde no deeper than 4,770 ft, but holds deeper gas potential in Cretaceous Mancos B, Niobrara, Dakota, and Pennsylvanian Weber.
The first well, which twinned a marginal 1995 discovery, went on line in March 2001. The field, near the Colorado line, was not named as of mid-July.
Partners with Huntford were TCC Royalty Corp., Englewood, Colo., MTARRI Inc., Golden, Colo., and Catfish Energy LLC, Littleton, Colo.