El Paso Reports Success In Eagle Ford East Of Cotulla Texas

El Paso Corporation Reports Successful Eagle Ford Shale Well Near Cotulla Texas

According to a recent  press release, dated March 22, 2010, featured on El Paso Corporation’s website, the company has brought in a high condensate producing well in LaSalle County.

The Hixon 1H is located in the “Condensate Window” of the Eagle Ford shale. Natural gas and condensate production combined  to figure the “equivalent  natural gas production”. The well was producing 7.2 MMcfe/ day, or equivalent cubic feet per day,  of high quality condensate and natural gas.

This figure was derived froom 2.8 MMcf/ day of natural gas and 721 barrels of condensate per day. Natural gas tested at 1,368 Btu per cubic foot.

Condensate was measured at 51.7 API gravity. Well depth was at a true vertical depth of 9,950 with 4,100 feet of lateral in the Eagle Ford shale payzone. A frac job was applied in 14 stages.

“We are very pleased with the drilling and completion performance of our second Eagle Ford well,” said Brent Smolik, president of El Paso Exploration & Production Company. “The Hixon 1H tested at the high end of our forecast, and it has a much higher liquids content, which further enhances our economics.

We are encouraged with the results, and we are accelerating our Eagle Ford program with the addition of a second rig, which will operate in the area where this well was drilled.” El Paso Corporation holds leases of approximately 138,000 acres in the Eagle Ford shale play area.

The Hixon 1-H is located in the northern part of their leasehold area on the 4490 acre  Hixon lease, approximately 9 miles east of Cotulla Texas.  No field name has been designated yet. It is still listed as “widlcat” on the Texas Railroad Commission’s website. The Hixon #1-H well is not located very far from the western end of Petrohawk’s Hawkville field.