Independent exploration and production firm Heartland Oil and Gas is continuing its drilling and pipeline expansion projects in eastern Kansas and has completed the planning and testing necessary to undertake production enhancement on several of its wells in northern Texas.
In southeast Kansas, Heartland is presently working to connect 12 additional wells in its Jake pilot location. The work entails perforating and fracturing the wells, drilling an injection well to dewater the producing wells and building a 4.5 mile, eight-inch pipeline that will connect Jake to the company’s Lancaster gas processing plant.
Heartland stated that the tubing in some of the wells has been pulled and fracturing procedures have been designed. The company expects the completion of these procedures to have a very positive impact upon its oil and gas production.
In Palo Pinto County, Texas, the oil and gas firm will be working to bring the additional Barron and Keck wells into production from the Barnett Shale zones. Heartland’s reported goal is to accomplish all of these projects by the end of the first quarter of 2008.
The firm said that its future focus will be to drill 30 new wells in Kansas every quarter based on the gas in place maps prepared by its engineers and geologists.