By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Nov. 18 -- Devon Energy Corp. started production at the 5-3 Horseshoe Basin Unit well in the Vermillion Creek area of the Greater Green River basin in Sweetwater County, Wyo.

Output from Cretaceous Baxter shale totaled 21.7 MMcf of gas and 3,836 bbl of condensate in the first 6.5 days on line, and the current rate is 2.19 MMcfd and 412 b/d of condensate, said 50% working interest owner Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp., Denver. TD is 13,534 ft.

Three wells have been drilled, and Devon is acquiring 25 sq miles of 3D seismic in the area. The outlook for 2009 is for horizontal drilling in the Baxter, said Kodiak.