Oil roundups report multiple wildcat drills in Texas
The field notes list several wells in Winkler and Pecos counties. Projects include No. 1 Dull Knife in Winkler 22 500 feet deep for gas near Kermit, and No. 2 17 Haley Unit for Silurian gas in Evetts field. Gulf Oil finishes Fusselman gas discovery with 46 million cu ft daily, plus other recompletions and tests across Pecos and Ward counties.
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Evetts
Winkler
Kermit
Exxon
Evetts Field
Gulf Oil Corp
T.B. Pruitt, Et al
Ward County
Fusselman Gas Discovery
Vermejo
Fusselman and
Ellenburger
W&nw
Barstow
Hilliard Oil & Gas, Inc
Midland
Sealy-Smith
G&mmb&a
Pecos County
Costa Resources, Inc
Dallas
Skua, Inc
North Pecos
Imperial
H&gn
Middle Clear Fork
Homer Olsen Jr
el Cinco
Shell Oil Co
McCamey
Monsanto Co
Atkinson-Bunger
Pecos
Fort Stockton
Grey Ranch
Wolfcamp
T&stl
Mobil Oil Corp
State-Houston County Timber Co
Brooklaw
Girvin
Four C Oil & Gas Corp
Sibley
H&tc
Tops
San Andres
Glorieta
Clear Fork
Tubb
Cleark Fork
Texaco Inc
J.J. Eaton
Yates Oil
T.C.L
H&tc Survey
Exxon Corp
Comanchee Creek
Queen
Phillips Petroleum Co
Strawn
Coates
Drilling Rigs Active in Basin Reach 302
The Friday survey by Reed Drilling Equipment counts 302 rigs in operation in the Permian Basin last week, up from 294 two weeks earlier. Year over year, 2025 activities total 82 more rigs than the prior year. Pecos County leads with 27 rigs, followed by Lea County New Mexico with 26 and Eddy County New Mexico with 21. Ward County reports 13 rigs and Ector County 12.
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Permian Basin
Reed Drilling Equipment
Pecos County
Lea County
N.M
Eddy County
Ward County
Ector County
Dickens Winkler
Ector
Yoakum
A Eddy
Edwards
West Texans weigh how to curb federal growth
Texas congressman Richard C. White reports West Texas views on President Carter’s plan to push federal reorganization. Congress would review a 60 day submission window with a three plan limit and single subject rule, shaping a future energy agency consolidation into one super agency.
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Richard C. White
16Th
Texas
West Texas
Congress
President Carter
Carter
Senate
House
Energy Agency
Energy Research and Development Administration
Federal Energy Agency
Federal Power Commission
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