mandag 4. juni 2012

the potential of Cattaraugus

THE WESTERN ACRES: CATTARAUGUS COUNTY.

Beside the Upper Devonian Shales like 
Middlesex  (oil potential)
Rhinestreet (oil potential)
Geneseo (oil potential)
and the 

Ordovician limestone-calcareous shale interval 
The Point Pleasant

Norse seems to have some other formations as well in Cattaraugus.

Ive done some search on the DEC`s well base. I found that since 1/1/2011 there have been spudded or started to drill 132 wells.

  • 61 are in the Bradford that includes: Bradford 2nd Bradford 3rd Chipmunk/Bradford
  • 8 Chipmunk
  • 4 Medina (natgas)
  • 60 Upperdevonian with no more info.. there may be other targets? not quite sure on this..
Its also important to NOTE that many of those wells are with the same name but different well numbers and API numbers: like the Young wells drilled by US ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.







Operators are:

onsdag 1. juni 2011

Norse energy: 50k acres in west




Some Dec/database searches... this is the status on oil and gas drilling that I found..
                                            
                                             Cattaraugus 
UPDATED ON COMPANIES:
Companies that have applied for oil or gas wells in Cattaraugus (greater/equal than ) 1/1/2011
McCracken, Carl A. III
U S Energy Development Corp.  
Case Brothers Inc.  
Burlingame, Leonard L
Reiss, Kenneth G.
Interco Energy Development Corp  
Copper Ridge Oil, Inc.  
McKellpee Energy Corp.  
Little, Jay R.  
Pan Energy Company, Inc.  
Snyder Brothers, Inc.  
OIL well
well drilled since 1/1/2010: 117               mostly Upper Devonian (only oil development)
new permits since 1/1/2011: 75                mostly Upper Devonian

Gas wells
Marcellus: 3 expired permits
many Medina wells are active

                                                 Allegany
UPDATED ON COMPANIES
Companies that have applied for oil or gas wells in Allegany (greater/equal than ) 1/1/2011
U S Energy Development Corp
Otis Eastern Service, Inc.  
Plants & Goodwin, Inc.  
Zlomek, John  
Benson Oil Co.  

OIL well
well drilled since 1/1/2010  13             Upper Devonian, Fulmer Valley, Richburg (only oil development)
new permits since 1/1/2011 17            Upper Devonian, Fulmer Valley, Richburg

Gas wells
Marcellus: 2 wells are drilled 2500-2800ft
many gas wells that are drilled in Richburg, Fulmer Valley, Upper Devonian, Oriskany

    
                                            Steuben
UPDATED ON COMPANIES
Companies that have applied for oil or gas wells in Steuben (greater/equal than ) 1/1/2011
Yahn & Yahn Inc
Nathan Petroleum Corp.

OIL well 
well drilled since 1/1/2010   9             Fulmer Valley (only oil development)
new permits since 1/1/2011 2           Fulmer Valley

Gas wells
Marcellus: there are 31 permits: most permits are expired, 13 are drilled and shut in a few active: depth are in range: 3500-5500 ft.
Black River: 8 active wells..