California

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 19 -- Warren Resources Inc., New York, resumed drilling at the Wilmington Townlot Unit in California.

It spud the first new horizontal well, WTU No. 2171, on Apr. 15, 2010, that targets oil production from the Tar formation. The 2171 well is to be directionally drilled to a measured total depth of 5,300 ft.

This will be the first horizontal Tar formation well drilled in WTU’s Northwest extension and the first of eight Tar formation wells to be drilled in the second and third quarters of 2010.