G. Alan Petzet
Exploration Editor
A Canadian operator conducting a broad exploration and development program in the U.S. has staked a remote Lower Cretaceous Washita-Fredericksburg wildcat in southeastern Mississippi.
Norcen Explorer Inc., Houston, plans to drill the 1 Exxon Corp. et al., NW NW NW 25-3n-8w, in western Greene County, Miss. Projected total depth is 11,000 ft.
The location is 1 3/4 miles southwest of Byrd, Miss., and 8 miles south of Avera field, which produces oil from several Cretaceous formations.
Petroleum Information notes that the nearest previous drilling is a 13,520 ft wildcat, 1 Neely-Jackson, in 35-3n-8w, abandoned more than 30 years ago by King Petroleum Co. King recovered 53 sidewall cores at 7,441-13,493 ft but found no shows.
The only other work scheduled in lightly drilled Greene County as of mid-April was a planned 8,600 ft Upper Cretaceous Lower Tuscaloosa wildcat permitted in late 1990 by Fina Oil & Chemical Co., Dallas.
That attempt is 1 Glen Neubert 5-9, NW NE SE 5-4n-8w, 3/4 mile west of North Sand Hill field, which produces oil from Tuscaloosa.
Fina in November 1989 abandoned 1 Freeman 3313, NE SW SW 33-5n-8w, the last well drilled in the county.
This 12,500 ft Lower Cretaceous Sligo wildcat 1 1/2 miles west of North Sand Hill field found no shows in 30 sidewall cores taken in Lower Cretaceous Rodessa sand.
MISSISSIPPI PROGRAM
Norcen had its best year in the U.S. in 1990, and has increased emphasis on interior salt basin prospects in Mississippi.
Development drilling is planned this year near new field discoveries gauged in 1990 and early 1991 at Burns and Ellisville, Miss.
Norcen opened Burns field at 1 Burns Baptist Church, in 1-3n-7e, flowing 396 b/d of 39 gravity oil, 17 bw/d, and 325 psi flowing tubing pressure from Lower Cretaceous Mooringsport perforations at 9,878-86 ft. Well site is 3 1/2 miles northeast of Boykin Church oil and gas field.
In Jones County 2 miles north of Ellisville, Norcen completed 1 Moffett et al., in 22-8n-12w.
It flowed 968 b/d of 43.4 gravity oil and 700 Mcfd of gas through an adjustable choke with 634 psi flowing tubing pressure from the 16,200 ft reservoir in Jurassic Upper Cotton Valley. Gas included 5% carbon dioxide.
Cotton Valley at 16,567-578 ft, 16,594-600 ft, and 16,626-634 ft made 150 b/d of 33.2 gravity oil on swab tests and will be placed on pump. Other sands carry shows in Cotton Valley and Lower Cretaceous Hosston, Southeastern Oil Review, Jackson, reported.
The field has been named Tallahoma Creek.
Norcen is also active in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas and Louisiana, onshore Louisiana, and in the Montana Overthrust Belt.
The company plans to drill as many as 17 Gulf Coast exploratory wells this year, including five offshore.
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