Texas-East

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 25 -- Berry Petroleum Co., Denver, identified more than 100 drilling locations and 75 recompletion opportunities on East Texas properties it acquired in July 2008 for $668 million.

The drilling locations target stacked pay in various productive zones including Pettit, Travis Peak, Cotton Valley sands, Cotton Valley lime, Bossier sands, and Haynesville and Bossier shales on the 4,500 net acres in Limestone and Harrison counties.

The acquisition included a gathering system that is expected to take all current and future production from the properties.

Berry is drilling with one rig and plans to start horizontal drilling in the Haynesville shale in Harrison County in the third quarter of 2009.