While some good oil strikes continue to be made in Adair County, a big percentage of drilling in the area at the present time is centered in the Mell Ridge area of neighboring Green County (a couple of miles or so from the Portland area of Adair County), where several local drilling companies have hit deep wells in recent weeks.
The latest well was drilled in by Travis Coomer Drilling late Sunday night on the William “Junior” Blaydes lease on Mell Ridge.
Coomer said they started hitting oil at 1,570 feet in the Knox formation, and drilled the well in a 1,720 feet, in the third break of the Knox.
“It really looks like it’s going to be a good well,” Coomer said at the well site Monday afternoon. “It’s going to make over 100 barrels a day, and could do quite a bit more.”
Coomer said that this is the ninth successful well he has drilled in on the 180-acre Blaydes lease, and has hit five more wells on the adjoining Irvin lease.
“All the other wells are good producers, but this could be the best one of them all,” he noted.
The Mell-Portland area was the site of considerable oil exploration in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but most of the wells hit back then were shallow wells.
“There was a lot of oil wells hit around here 25-30 years ago,” Coomer said. “But, when the bottom dropped out of oil prices in the 80’s, everybody abandoned the field.
“Now, what everyone is doing is coming back in here, expanding the field and drilling down into the Knox and hitting some good oil,” he continued.
Coomer said that everyone feels like there is considerable more oil to be found in the area.
“This last well we hit is on the opposite end of the lease from where we hit the others, so the field is expanding,” he stated.
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