Independent Oil and Gas Service
(IOG Weekly News 07/05/04) - New oil deposits
have been discovered by Nor-West Kansas Oil, LLC,
of Wakeeney (KS), at the Bixenman well in
southwestern Sheridan County. Located in
approximately W/2 E/2 E/2 in section 3-T10s-
R29W, the wildcat well is on pump making an undis-
closed amount of crude from the Lansing-Kansas
City formation. Operator selected drill site located
nearly 3/4-mile east of production in the W.C.C.
South Field which has also produced LKC oil since
1984. The Bixenman well was drilled to a rotary
total depth of 4530 ft. Pay in the W.C.C. South
field comes from between 4000 to 4100 ft. Nor-West
's new field discovery has not been named and is
located 9-1/2 miles south and 5 miles west of
Hoxie, Kansas.
(2) Hess Oil Company Opens New Oil Field
IOG Weekly News 07/05/04) - Hess Oil Company,
McPherson (KS), has established a new unnamed oil
field in Trego county that is located 4-1/4 miles
north and 2-3/4 miles west of the city of Brownell.
S/2 N/2 SE in section 32-T15s-R22W, found new oil
deposits about 3/4-mile south of recently discovered
Cherokee oil deposits found by Wichita-based Grand
Mesa Operating Company in section 29 that opened
the Page Creek West Field earlier this year. Hess Oil
has not released the producing formation or produc-
tion volume at their site. However, the 4370 ft. deep
well lies over 1/2-mile north of Hess Oil's Wanda
#1, NE NE SE in section 6-T16s-R22W, Ness
County, that was completed for 37 barrels of oil per
day in July, 2002 and was credited with having
added Cherokee production from 4321 to 4322 ft. as
a new pay source in the Waring Field.
(3) Vess Oil Corp. Finals Clark County Stepout
IOG Weekly News 08/02/04) - Vess Oil Corpora-
tion of Wichita (KS) has added new Arbuckle oil
reserves and expanded the boundaries of the Yesta
Field with completion of their Berryman-Denton
Unit #1, located in approximately C W/2 E/2 W/2 in
section 12-T32s-R24W in Clark County. The Ar-
buckle formation is giving up an unknown amount of