New Mexico: San Andres laterals due at Milnesand

Enhanced Oil Resources Inc., Houston, will drill lateral sidetracks as long as 2,000 ft in as many as five wells in Milnesand field in Roosevelt County, NM, and apply multistage fracs in the Permian San Andres formation.

Alan Petzet

Oct. 12, 2011

If the laterals show promise, more than 300 locations could be drilled across the company’s 27,000 acres of leases in Milnesand and Chaveroo oil fields where the 40-acre vertical wells have recovered 14% of original oil in place.

About the Author

Alan Petzet

Chief Editor Exploration

Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.

Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.