Guardian Oil & Gas, Inc. retains land holdings throughout the continental United States. However, our largest active drilling and production projects are in Texas, Louisiana, and Utah. Our current focus in Texas is in the eastern half of the state. We are partners in eight wells in Freestone and Rusk counties that produce from various parts of the Cotton Valley Consolidated section. This is a complex sequence of sandstone, shale and limestone that spans the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous where target reservoirs exist.

Guardian has pursued oil and gas in the Austin Chalk since 2003 when we joined Anadarko in their 34,000 acre play in Tyler County. Since then, we have participated in more than 50 Chalk wells in Tyler, Polk, Grimes, and Burleson Counties of Texas and in the Rapides and Evangeline Parishes in Louisiana. 

Greatly improved technology has allowed numerous drilling companies to exploit underexplored plays in the Austin Chalk. Most Chalk wells have one or more laterals that extend out horizontally into the Chalk reservoir. The laterals may be as short as a thousand feet or extend more than five thousand feet from the vertical part of the well. Because the Chalk is a tight reservoir with low permeability, hydrocarbon production relies on natural and artificially induced fractures. The horizontal parts of the well bore intersect more fractures than a vertical hole through the Chalk, increasing the productivity of these wells. 

Guardian has partnered with operators to drill a series of horizontal wells targeting the James Lime. This Lower Cretaceous transgressive limestone is part of the Glen Rose Formation. Many of the same drilling and completion techniques applied to the Austin Chalk can be used to exploit the James Lime.