Breitling spuds Warrior well

Spudded: Breitling goes to work on Warrior horizontal well

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Luke Johnson

 22 March 2012 17:22 GMT

Texas-based independent Breitling Oil & Gas has spudded the first well of its potential six-well exploratory programme targeting the Hunton Chimney Hill Limestone in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.

The Breitling-Warrior-1H, spudded on Monday, will have a total vertical depth of 4000 feet plus a 2300-foot lateral, the company said in a statement. It expects the well to reach total depth in 17 days, with completion and testing set to begin at the end of April.

The company has listed the Woodford shale at 3800 feet and the Earlsboro Sand at 3600 feet as secondary objectives in the well. It will drill the initial test well into the Hunton Chimney Hill formation, the primary objective.

The Hunton Chimney Hill Limestone has produced since the 1920s, though output from…

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