Kansas: Arbuckle oil well gauged in Rice County

Castle Resources Inc. has completed an Arbuckle oil well in Rice County, Kan., and partner AusTex Oil Ltd., Sydney, said 3D seismic indicates that three drillable locations remain on the four-way closure. The next well is to spud Apr. 28.

Alan Petzet

April 11, 2012

The Ludwig-1, in 35-19s-10w, pumped 240 bbl of 42° gravity oil in 8 hr each day the past week without water from the Arbuckle at about 3,250 ft. The well is to produce 5-8 hr/day until the rod pump is hooked to a permanent electricity connection by the end of April.

Castle Resources and AusTex are working interest partners in 3,200 acres in Ellsworth and Rice counties.

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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.