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Since its inception, New Western Energy Corp. has entered into joint ventures to acquire working interests in several producing oil wells in the Gulf States, and is in negotiations to acquire land leases for properties that have shown favorable characteristics for the discovery of oil, natural gas, coal and other minerals.
Our projects are located in areas known for the discovery and production of oil and natural gas:
Oklahoma
Projects: Doshier
Nowata County became known as the world's largest shallow oil field when oil was first discovered there in 1904. Oil was first discovered in the southern part of the county in what was designated as the "Alluwe" field. Prospectors and drillers soon got busy in various parts of the county and by 1906 the famous "Hogshooter" field was discovered. Oil was also found at Coody's Bluff and other parts of the county. The deposits of oil in this county were found to belong to what the drillers termed the "shallow" field, and because of the comparatively small cost of drilling a well, the development progressed rapidly and a lively scramble for leases and drilling permits ensued. Fortunes have been made by the oil operators in this section of the state, and wells drilled several years ago are still bringing their owners handsome incomes. In addition to its numerous oil wells, Nowata County has an abundance of natural gas and coal for fuel.
Projects: Glass, Phillips, Ward
The earliest discovery of oil in Rogers County was made about 30 years ago. Oil is found in numerous places in this county at a depth of not more than 500 feet. Some of the wells drilled 15 or 20 years ago are still producing oil. This section of the state is what oil men call a "shallow" field, for the reason that oil is found much nearer the surface than in most other localities. The production of oil in this county is not limited to any one neighborhood. Profitable wells have been drilled in the extreme northern part of the county, around Chelsea, in the central part of the county around Claremore and in the extreme southern part around Inola. In connection with this development of oil, quite a profitable business has developed within the past few years-- manufacturing casing-head gasoline from the gas, which is given off from the oil. This is an additional source of revenue, as formerly this gas was allowed to escape through the atmosphere.
Pennsylvania
Projects: Wellsboro
The Marcellus Shale covers approximately 65 million acres or two-thirds of Pennsylvania and is located near the high demand marketplace of the Northeast. Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale natural gas producers operate some 50,000 wells to deliver over 158 billion cubic feet of gas to the market. With the advent of horizontal drilling technology combined with modern hydraulic fracturing techniques, the Marcellus Shale is now, more than ever, economically viable prompting recovery and marketing of its substantial resource of natural gas. Pennsylvania has an estimated 2.8 trillion cubic feet of proved natural gas reserves in the ground awaiting development. Natural gas is produced in all 31 counties in the state. Our 23-acre property is situated on a glacial aged kame terrace in Middlebury Township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in an area that is considered to be part of the Marcellus Shale. The property was inferred to contain roughly 900,000 cubic yard of borrow material, according to a 1985 study. The terrace sands, gravels and finer sediments were deposited in response to blockage by glacial ice. The potential usable deposit conceivably may be significantly larger. However, detailed closely spaced drilling and testing would be required to determine the bottom configuration to prove reserves. The study also corroborated the field observation that the deposit is well-graded; that is, without dominance of any size fraction.