By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Nov. 3 – Forest Oil Corp., Denver, drilled and completed its second operated horizontal Granite Wash in the Greater Buffalo Wallow area of Hemphill County, Texas Panhandle.
The well produced into a sales line at an initial 10.4 MMcfd of gas, 1,300 b/d of oil, and 2,000 b/d of natural gas liquids in early October 2009. Forest has 94% working interest.
Forest has 93,000 net acres in the area, 2,000 of which were added since the second quarter of 2009. Forest has three operated horizontal rigs and three nonoperated horizontal rigs active in the play and expects to drill and complete two operated wells in the fourth quarter of 2009.