Texas: Abraxas pursues Strawn horizontal play

Aug. 9, 2011
Abraxas Petroleum Corp., San Antonio, has completed a second horizontal Strawn oil and gas well on its Spires Ranch acreage in Nolan County, West Central Texas.

Abraxas Petroleum Corp., San Antonio, has completed a second horizontal Strawn oil and gas well on its Spires Ranch acreage in Nolan County, West Central Texas.

The Spires 126 2H went to 9,000 ft measured total depth including a 2,000-ft lateral and is completed in unstimulated open hole.

It averaged 47 b/d of oil, 46 b/d of natural gas liquids, and 210 Mcfd of gas its first 20 days on production. Abraxas owns a 100% working interest in the well.

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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.