By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 5 -- A private Michigan independent plans to explore for natural gas in an organic shale of Jurassic age in a Mesozoic basin just north of Philadelphia.
Arbor Resources LLC, Traverse City, Mich., is acquiring leases in northernmost Bucks County in hopes of drilling an 8,000-ft wildcat, press reports said. The drillsite would be near a wildcat drilled in 1985 by Northwest Energy that cut 2,000 ft of pay in a Jurassic organic shale in the Newark Supergroup (see maps, OGJ, July 20, 1998, p. 94).
The drillsite is in the Nockamixon area near Riegelsville, Pa., along the Delaware River 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Nearest hydrocarbon production appears to be at least 100 miles northwest in and around Bradford County, Pa.
Formed in 1993, Arbor Resources has produced oil and gas properties in Michigan and has expanded into Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania.
