Archive February 1998 Vol. 219 No. 2 Outlook '98

What 20 U.S. major drillers plan for 1998¹

	Wells to be drilled			Wells drilled				Supplemental well data3
	1998			1997				Horizontal		Gas
Area or district	Total	Wildcat	Field	Total	Wildcat	Field		1998	1997	1998	1997
Alabama-On.	4	0	4	1	0	1		0	0	0	0
Alaska-On.	114	5	109	88	2	86		20	19	4	0
Alaska-Off.	0	0	0	1	0	1		0	0	0	0
Arkansas	40	2	38	18	0	18		0	0	38	18
California-On.	1,780	0	1,780	1,465	0	1,465		110	80	1	0
California-Off.2	8	0	8	13	0	13		0	0	32	0
Colorado	38	1	37	38	4	34		0	5	16	13
Gulf of Mexico2	340	113	227	261	72	189		29	25	161	76
Alabama	8	6	2	3	1	2		0	0	8	2
Louisiana	285	85	200	228	49	179		26	23	113	52
Mississippi	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	1	1
Texas	47	22	25	30	22	8		2	2	39	21
Indiana	0	0	0	2	0	2		0	0	0	2
Kansas	169	10	159	145	0	145		0	0	128	102
Kentucky	64	0	64	31	0	31		0	0	64	31
Louisiana	242	72	170	180	32	148		78	54	130	49
North	42	5	37	25	1	24		0	0	42	24
South	200	67	133	155	31	124		78	54	88	25
Michigan	79	9	70	92	11	81		0	0	54	51
Mississippi	10	0	10	5	1	4		0	0	3	2
Montana	18	9	9	20	5	15		0	3	0	1
Nebraska	2	2	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0
New Mexico	205	22	183	129	19	110		12	12	94	44
North/West	49	2	47	16	1	15		0	0	44	15
South/East	156	20	136	113	18	95		12	12	50	29
New York	10	2	8	8	0	8		0	0	10	8
North Dakota	7	3	4	11	2	9		6	7	0	0
Ohio	88	16	72	123	11	112		0	0	81	88
Oklahoma	236	20	216	250	19	231		12	19	190	179
Pennsylvania	99	6	93	86	4	82		0	0	95	86
Texas	1,692	108	1,584	1,736	107	1,629		282	231	970	833
Dist. 1	60	8	52	200	1	199		0	16	48	162
Dist. 2	4	2	2	6	4	2		0	2	2	5
Dist. 3	284	20	264	182	17	165		209	136	125	97
Dist. 4	378	29	349	240	25	215		22	2	343	178
Dist. 5	86	1	85	78	11	67		1	19	33	35
Dist. 6	47	2	45	57	1	56		0	0	47	53
Dist. 7B	30	30	0	30	30	0		0	0	0	0
Dist. 7C	277	0	277	325	0	325		1	38	237	182
Dist. 8	172	9	163	246	10	236		25	14	17	7
Dist. 8A	121	2	119	157	5	152		0	0	0	0
Dist. 9	95	0	95	74	2	72		0	0	0	0
Dist. 10	138	5	133	141	1	140		24	4	118	114
Utah	18	3	15	24	0	24		3	2	12	15
West Virginia	272	12	260	198	6	192		0	0	270	197
Wyoming	71	5	66	82	23	59		3	7	29	25
Total U.S.	5,606	420	5,186	5,007	318	4,689		555	464	2,382	1,820
1 Major drillers are defined as integrated oil companies or subsidiaries, and large independents that plan to implement significant drilling programs in several states during 1997. These include: Aera Energy LLC, Anadarko Petroleum, Apache, BP Prudhoe Bay Drilling, Belden & Blake, Cabot Oil & Gas, Chesapeake Operating, Chevron USA, Conoco, Exxon Co. USA, Marathon Oil, Maxus Energy, Mitchell Energy, Santa Fe Energy Resources, Seagull Energy E&P, Shell Western E&P, Spirit Energy, Swift Energy, The Eastern Group and Union Pacific Resources. 2 Includes state and federal waters. 3 This additional breakdown already included in wildcat and field categories.

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