Kentucky exploration targets oil in fractured High Bridge, Knox zones
- Tec Group, Inc., Bloomfield, CT (United States)
A high-yielding oil well, the Syndicated Options Ltd. of Austria 9372 Ferguson Bros., was completed in late 1990 in Clinton County, south-central Kentucky. Cumulative production for the first 8 weeks was reported to have been nearly 150,000 bbl of oil. The well produced from the Middle Ordovician High Bridge group, which is equivalent to the Stones River group of Tennessee. The producing zone was apparently a fractured carbonate reservoir at a depth of 1,008 ft. The discovery well was the result of deepening a previously abandoned well. The oil well, the Nelson Bishop 4A Ferguson Bros., was previously drilled to 980 ft in March 1987. The original well was logged and cased, and was successfully completed as an oil well in the upper part of the High Bridge group producing about 3 b/d of oil from 828-830 ft. This well was subsequently abandoned and the lease was allowed to expire. In 1990 the Nelson Bishop well was acquired by Syndicated Options Ltd. of Austria and renamed following the change of operator. An air rotary rig was used to clean out the deepen the well.
- OSTI ID:
- 6994463
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal; (United States), Vol. 90:44; ISSN 0030-1388
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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