Wednesday, April 6, 2011

New Wells in New York

Again, focusing outside of New York's traditionally most active oil and gas areas in the westernmost part of the state, here is the latest available information on drilling permits applied for or permitted, or wells spudded, bottomed out, completed, or plugged.  


A close observer will note that there's more to drilling in New York than just oil and gas exploration and development.  In fact, this list of recent activity reveals several other reasons why somebody would want to drill a well:  

1) a number of salt-mining-oriented operations; 

2) an academic institution which proposes to drill a well in order to learn what's there; and 

3) a green energy renewables developer which has spudded a well in an effort to exploit the heat of the earth (on Manhattan Island — Madison Avenue at East 62nd Street).


Date
Event
Well type — Formation (orientation)
Well Name
Operator
County
(Town)
Map It
3/24/2011 
Completed
Oneida
(vertical)
Hare 2-436
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
3/24/2011 
Completed
Confidential
(verticall)
Hare 2
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
3/21/2011 
Completed
Not Applicable
(verticall)
Rossi 1-440
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
3/21/2011 
Completed
Confidential
(verticall)
Rossi 1-440
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
3/16/2011 
Completed
Oneida
(vertical)
Spinelli 1-437
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
3/16/2011 
Completed
Unknown
(verticall)
Spinelli 1-437
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
3/16/2011 
Completed
Confidential
(verticall)
Spinelli 1-437
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
3/8/2011 
Completed
Oneida
(vertical)
Whitney 1
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Madison
(Lebanon)
3/8/2011 
Completed
Herkimer
(vertical)
Whitney 1
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Madison
(Lebanon)
3/4/2011 
Permit Issued
Brine —
Salina
(horizontall)
Hooker 114
Occidental
Chemical Corp.
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
3/4/2011 
Permit Issued
Brine —
Salina
(horizontall)
Hooker 166
Occidental
Chemical Corp.
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
3/4/2011 
Permit Issued
Brine —
Salina
(vertical)
Hooker 167
Occidental
Chemical Corp.
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
3/4/2011 
Permit Issued
Brine —
Salina
(horizontall)
Hooker 168
Occidental
Chemical Corp.
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
3/4/2011 
Permit Issued
Brine —
Salina
(horizontall)
Hooker 169
Occidental
Chemical Corp.
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
3/4/2011 
Permit Issued
Brine —
Salina
(vertical)
Hooker 182
Occidental
Chemical Corp.
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
2/26/2011 
Completed
Confidential
(horizontal)
Sweezy, J. 2H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
2/25/2011 
Permit Applied For
Brine —
Salina
(horizontall)
Texas Brine Company 118
Texas Brine
Company, LLC
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
2/25/2011 
Permit Applied For
Brine —
Salina
(vertical)
Texas Brine Company 119
Texas Brine
Company, LLC
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
2/25/2011 
Permit Applied For
Brine —
Salina
(vertical)
Texas Brine Company 120
Texas Brine
Company, LLC
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
2/25/2011 
Permit Applied For
Brine —
Salina
(vertical)
Texas Brine Company 121
Texas Brine
Company, LLC
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
2/16/2011 
Permit Issued
Herkimer
(horizontal)
Thompson 1HA
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
2/14/2011 
Permit Issued
Herkimer
(horizontal)
COLE, J 1H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
2/11/2011 
Completed
Herkimer
(horizontal)
Morse 1H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/31/2011 
Permit Issued
Herkimer
(horizontal)
BLANCHARD L 2H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/29/2011 
Completed
Brine —
Salina
(vertical)
Texas Brine Company 111
Texas Brine
Company, LLC
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
1/29/2011 
Completed
Brine —
Salina
(vertical)
Texas Brine Company 112
Texas Brine
Company, LLC
Wyoming
(Middlebury)
1/25/2011 
Spudded
Herkimer
(horizontal)
Davis, TK. 1H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/25/2011 
Permit Applied For
Herkimer
(horizontal)
CAMPBELL ESTATES, M 4H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/24/2011 
Completed
Herkimer
(horizontal)
Smyrna Hillbillies 6H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/19/2011 
Permit Issued
Herkimer
(horizontal)
NELSON, D. 1H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/18/2011 
Permit Applied For
Herkimer
(horizontal)
TK DAVIS 2H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/15/2011 
Plugged and Abandoned
Confidential
(vertical)
Morse 1H-S
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/10/2011 
Permit Applied For
Stratigraphic
(vertical)
TW-3B
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ. 
Rockland
(Orangetown)
1/5/2011 
Permit Applied For
Herkimer
(horizontal)
Gunther T 1H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Chenango
(Smyrna)
1/4/2011 
Spudded
Geothermal
(vertical)
W-1
RI Group, LLC
New York
(Manhattan)
1/2/2011 
Completed
Herkimer
(horizontal)
Disciascio 1H
Norse
Energy
Corp USA
Madison
(Lebanon)