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Article: Niobrara again in spotlight as horizontal well target. (fractured chalk; oil and gas well)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- April 22, 1992
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HOUSTON -- Whether the Niobrara trend will replace Texas' Austin Chalk as an even bigger horizontal drilling target, as some consultants have predicted, still remains to be determined.
But a corner of the much larger Niobrara, a fractured chalk found intermittently from the northern Rockies to Texas, has proved profitable to one of the Texas formation's biggest producers. Union Pacific Resources Co. of Fort Worth has tested its sixth horizontal well in the Silo field of Laramie County, Wyo. The No. 1-H McConnaughey 41-27 in the northern quadrant of Section 27 T15N R65W was dug to a vertical depth of 8,578 feet with a lateral displacement of 2,385 feet.
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