Citation's first substantial property acquisition occurred in 1986. That year, Citation purchased a number of Permian Basin properties from Shell Oil Company. Since that time, Citation has continued to expand its production base in West Texas and New Mexico. Citation has purchased additional assets from companies such as Amoco, Exxon, Texaco and Mobil, and those assets include both primary and secondary recovery projects. The West Texas Region also includes an active development project in Willacy County for Frio and Miocene-aged sands at the Willamar Field.
The West Texas Region office is located in Midland, Texas.
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Barnett Shale
The company owns approximately 5,000 net acres in two consolidated positions located near the northern and southern boundaries of Parker County, Texas. Citation's current production consists of shallow gas encountered in the Bend and Caddo formations. The deeper Barnett Shale trend has rapidly become the premier shale gas play in the onshore domestic United States. Citation has partnered with active players in the offsetting leases to shoot and interpret relatively large 3-D seismic surveys. Over 50 prospective locations for horizontal wells within the Newark East Field have been identified and are being evaluated for drilling to an average TVD of 6,000'.
Bar-Mar Field
The Bar-Mar field is located in Crane County, TX, 15 miles southwest of the town of Crane, TX. It is in a common trend with Devonian production in the Cordona Lake and Abell fields. The discovery well, the Hanson and Allen's Mary Lieurance #1 was drilled to 5,350' and completed in the Devonian in May 1965. The field currently produces 200 Bopd, 65 Mcfd and 2,000 BWPD from 10 wells. Bar-Mar is under waterflood and is a candidate for CO2 injection. Presently, a stimulation program is underway which is intended to increase injection rates and fluid production field-wide.
Flowers Field
Flowers Field is located in southeast Stonewall County, Texas. Citation acquired the approximately 5,875 acre field from Texaco in 1994. Production from the Canyon sands began in the early 1950's and the field was unitized for water flooding in 1963. Many of the wells were shut-in or abandoned due to mechanical failure. Citation is currently drilling a 16-well infill development pilot to further evaluate reactivating the waterflood and to determine the extent of remaining undeveloped reserves. If the pilot is successful, Citation will have the opportunity to drill up to 300 additional infill, injection and replacement wells to a relatively shallow depth of 4,500 feet.
Fuhrman Mascho Field
The Fuhrman Mascho Field is located in the northeast portion of the Central Basin Platform of the Permian Basin, just four miles west of Fuhrman, Texas. The field was initially developed in 1937. Citation's E.F. King lease produces oil and associated gas from 17 producers completed in the San Andres and Glorieta/Clearfork formations at 4,300' and 5,400', respectively. Cumulative production amounts to 6.3 MMBO, 4.6 BCFG and 3.0 MMBW from reservoirs predominantly influenced by solution gas drive mechanisms. Citation began water flooding in December 2004 by converting two producers to injection. Further development of a 40-acre five-spot pattern will begin in 2008 with the drilling of two additional injectors and up to 12 additional lease line injectors.
Goldsmith
The Goldsmith property is located just north of Odessa, Texas on the Central Basin Platform in the Permian Basin. Acquired from Shell in late 1986, Goldsmith Field produces from the San Andres formation at approximately 4,000' and the Clear Fork at 5,600'. Total daily operated production is 115 Bopd and 460 Mcfd from 16 producing wells. Additionally, Citation owns a significant WI in the Cummins Deep Unit operated by Apache Corporation and the Landreth Deep Unit operated by Occidental Permian. Both operators have been very active drilling approximately 60 Clearfork wells in 2004, 15 wells in 2005, 25 wells in 2006 and 19 wells in 2007. Additional infill drilling and waterflood expansion opportunities are present on all Citation properties at Goldsmith.
Harper
Discovered in 1933, the Harper Field is located on the east side of the Central Basin Platform in Ector County, Texas. It is on a prolific trend composed of various San Andres carbonate fields encountered at a depth of 4,000'. The East Harper Unit, originally operated by Shell Oil Company, was formed in 1966 to waterflood the eastern half of the Harper Field. Citation acquired and became the operator of the unit in 1992. Currently unit production is 260 Bopd, 70 Mcfd and 4,030 BWPD with an injection rate of 5,380 BWIPD. Waterflood development of the Lower San Andres formation is progressing through vertical deepenings and the drilling of horizontal laterals from existing wellbores, as well as injector reactivations. An additional 100 Bopd and 55 Mcfd produce from the non-unitized Glorieta and San Andres properties in the field.
Jordan
The Jordan Field is located 10 miles southwest of the East Harper Unit in Ector and Crane Counties, Texas. The trap is a low-relief, broad anticline formed by the drape of Permian sediments over buried Pennsylvanian faults. The Jordan University Unit was formed in 1966. Citation acquired it from Shell Oil Company in 1991. The unit contains 113 producers and 37 injectors with production of 550 Bopd and 585 Mcfd from the San Andres reservoir. Upside potential is being exploited through injector reactivations, profile management, and recompletion activity.
North Robertson
Acquired from ExxonMobil in 2003, Citation's North Robertson Field is located in Gaines County, TX, approximately eight miles southwest of Seminole. With 55 active producers and injectors, the North Robertson Field currently produces 365 Bopd from multiple Permian and Pennsylvanian Reservoirs. Within the Glorieta/Clearfork reservoir, the focus items are ongoing waterflood pattern re-alignment and an infill drilling program in 2008. Additional opportunities at North Robertson include reactivations and stimulation work in other reservoirs, including the development of high nitrogen-concentrated gas from the Yates Sands.
Willamar
Citation acquired the Willamar Field from Amoco Production Company in July 1989. The field is located approximately 15 miles northeast of Harlingen, Texas in Willacy County and produces 635 Bopd and 665 Mcfd from 59 active producing wells. Active reservoirs are the unitized Frio and Miocene sandstone intervals ranging in depth from 3,500' to 8,500'. Citation owns a 60 square mile 3-D seismic survey across the property. Additional opportunities remain to recomplete existing wells in shallower Miocene sands and possibly identify additional drill locations on existing structures.
| Net Proved Reserves | 23 MMBbls 48 Bcf |
| Net Production |
4,100 Bopd 11,500 Mcfd |
| Active Wells | 3,000 |
| Employees | 50 |