CAMBRIAN SEARCH HEATS IN WESTERN NEW YORK

Cambrian exploration is building in western New York state. Power Gas Corp., State College, Pa., has staked two Cambrian deeper pool tests in Wyoming field, Wyoming County, 41/2 miles northeast of Warsaw. Projected depth is 5,350 ft at 2 Chamberlain and 3 Titus Bros., both in section D, Town of Middlebury, Wyoming quadrangle. Wyoming field is one of 12 Silurian Medina gas fields in the county, Petroleum Information reported.

April 8, 1991

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Cambrian exploration is building in western New York state.

Power Gas Corp., State College, Pa., has staked two Cambrian deeper pool tests in Wyoming field, Wyoming County, 41/2 miles northeast of Warsaw.

Projected depth is 5,350 ft at 2 Chamberlain and 3 Titus Bros., both in section D, Town of Middlebury, Wyoming quadrangle. Wyoming field is one of 12 Silurian Medina gas fields in the county, Petroleum Information reported.

Power Gas drilled several Cambrian tests in the area last year and has a discovery, but 2 years of confidentiality is allowed. It is pursuing Cambrian exploration in Wyoming and Pavilion fields.

OTHER CAMBRIAN DRILLING

Transamerican Petroleum Corp. drilled two tests that flowed gas from Cambrian in the early 1960s about 1 1/2 miles southwest of the new Power Gas locations.

Transamerican's 1 Strathearn was completed flowing 250 Mcfd of gas from Cambrian Gatesburg at 5,260 ft. The company's 1 Wellman flowed 884 Mcfd of gas from Gatesburg at 5,336-5,426 ft.

A third Cambrian test in the area, Earl H. Linn et al. 1 Welch Bros., in section D, Town of Middlebury, Wyoming quadrangle, flowed 100 Mcfd of gas and 32 b/d of water from Gatesburg at 4,930-38 ft and was plugged.

To the northeast of Power Gas' locations, Gypsum Energy Management Co., East Pembroke, N.Y., in late 1989 drilled a Precambrian test projected to 3,860 ft. The company has not reported the outcome of the well.

The 2 U.S. Gypsum Co., section D, Batavia North quadrangle, Oakfield township, is 3 1/4 miles northwest of Batavia, N.Y., and is flanked by Medina gas production in Indian Falls field. Total depth is 4,620 ft.

Cambrian drilling is setting a fast pace in eastern Ohio (OGJ, Feb. 4, p. 58).

The western New York drilling lies along a Cambrian trend that extends from Ohio, where important production has been established, through northwestern Pennsylvania (OGJ, Oct. 8, 1990, p. 129).