Breitling Oil and Gas drills Breitling-Diego #1 well in US

Breitling Oil and Gas has drilled the Breitling-Diego #1 well in Duval County, Texas, US.

The drilling is part of the company’s Gulf Coast Onshore Initiative which began in May 2010.

The well will be drilled to 5,600ft to test the Pettus Sands and Yegua Sands.

Breitling Oil and Gas said the Pettus Sand in the North Fitzsimmons field area consists of upper, middle, and lower sands, of which the upper and lower have been previously exploited for gas and oil respectively.

The company said the Middle Pettus sand in the south-west corner of the lease acreage remains largely unproduced in the area.

The well is expected to reach the total depth in about six days and well completion and testing are expected to begin in the last week of November 2012.

Breitling Oil and Gas CEO, Chris Faulkner, stated, "The primary structure in the North Fitzsimmons Fields Prospect is an antithetic, up-to-the-coast fault closure running south-west to north-east through the lease acreage" adding "Lower Pettus oil production is on the up-thrown closure to the south-east of the fault and our position looks good in the field."

In other operational updates, the company stated that drilling operations have commenced at the Breitling-Pumpkin Ridge #2H in Mountrail County, North Dakota.

The company said the Breitling-Pumpkin Ridge #2H is the second horizontal well in Breitling’s Pumpkin Ridge horizontal Middle Bakken and Three Forks Mountrail County development prospect.

The well will be drilled to a total measured depth of 19,450ft and will reach a total measured depth in about 28 days, while hydraulic fracture stimulation and final completion operations will occur the third week of December.

Breitling Oil and Gas intends to drill up to two Bakken and three Forks wells on its Pumpkin Ridge Mountrail County acreage.