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Danny & Debbie Burris may have best Adair County oil well yet Well blown in on Thursday night by flashlight, put on cable rig pump last night, produced some $9,000 dollars worth of crude in first 12 hours. Excitement over the third major well in the Gradyville field is producting a frenzy of activity. By Ed Waggener Between last night at 7:00pm and 7:00am this morning, Friday, October 19, 2007, a new oil well blown in in Thursday on the Danny and Debbie Burris Farm near Gradyville produced over $9,000.00, at $90 a barrel, worth of oil. Danny Burris was elated. "It's pure oil," he said. "there's no water." And an epidemic of oilfield fever has seemed to take over in the area. The strike is one of the best in the history of the Gradyville Oilfield and is generating frenzied activity in the field. It was hit at 1300 feet, in the Murphreesboro, with eight feet of pay, according to Andy Withers, who got the information while on the phone to his brother, Bobby Withers of Milltown Church Road. The well is on a lease owner by John Burness, Glasgow, a member of a longtime South Central Kentucky oilfields family. Burness' father, the late Bill Burness, was a major developer in the Metcalfe County oilfields. Famed oilman Jimmy Reliford, Sparksville, was the driller. The well is on the the fabled Willie Nell Farm on Willie Nell Road just north of Jones Chapel Church. The farm is now divided, with the original Willie Nell well on the Hamlett Bros. Farm. Ricky and Barry Hamlett are owners of that spread. The original Willie Nell still produces 10-12 barrels of oil a day, Ricky Hamlett said today. A well drilled in the the last year on the Hamlett Bros. Farm is a big one. It is producing 80 barrels a day, Ricky Hamlett says, and that is more than the 60 barrels a day it started producing in late June of 2006. The new D&D Burris Well is producing at the rate of over 200 barrels a day. A February, 2006 well on the farm still produces some oil, but other than proximity, bears no relation to the new one. It is the third huge strike in the field in the past 12 months. Another well, on the Ralph Ollinger farm, on the J.B. Patterson Road, just north of Thursdays strike and across the Louie B. Nunn Parkway near mile marker 42, is steadily producing 85 barrels a day, according to local reports. While there is a lot of good natured kidding about the new Burris well "sucking all the oil" from the Hamlett Bros., they are almost as happy about the new well as the Burrisses. They expect new drilling to start soon on their property. Danny and Debbie Burris are hoping that strike will extend a skein of good luck they had on the farm they owned for the past 11 years. He still has acreage to lease on the farm, and he expects the latest strike to drive prices up. He won't say what he'll take for the new lease or leases he'll sell, only that it would be for the highest price he can get. Just this year they signed a lucrative cell tower deal. A small well came in a year ago, which produces only in the single digits. Debbie's Sewing business is going well. Both Debbie and Danny were at work as usual today. She was working on a wedding dress for a client, and he was building their new house. In the past month Danny has taken leave from his construction business to start a new home, with the help of neighbor Steve Nix, of the highest point on the farm. It's right beside his present home, which he said will be torn down. For now, he says, he'll be tending to the most pressing need, get the rest of the farm leased, at the right price, to continue the oil exploration. The other primary cash crop, besides oil, is Angus beef. And, one year ago, Debbie and Danny's beloved dog, Ladybug, won the Adair Progress' Pet Idol contest. Allen Vaughn, Egypt, KY, was at the well site today. He's a leasing agent for RickRod Oil of Portland, Adair County, KY, for Rickrod's Metcalfe County operations.. "You're going to see rigs all over the place," he said. "Everybody is coming in here now." RickRod was the lease owner on the Ollinger well, he said. Andy Withers, owner of Withers Geothermal, said that he will be drilling a well on the Bobby Caldwell farm on Bliss Hill soon. Richard Baker, who has been a major landowner on Jones Chapel Road near its intersection with Bliss Road, was at the new Burris Well on Friday. He said that there is endurance in the wells in the area. "I have a small well on my place," he said. It only produces 1/2 barrel a day. But," he said, "it's been doing that for 27 years. And with oil prices were they are today, that's still worth having." He said that he's sold most of the land he owned. Some 15 acres were sold to Lindsey Wilson Vice President Jeff Willis a few years ago, but he still has 24 acres to lease. He drove over on a new Kawasaki Mule he just bought new from Rex's Cycle to join the clusters of oil celebrators this morning. The apparent new wealth for the Burrises hasn't changed them. Debbie Moore still values Ladybug as much as money. "She loves that dog," her mother, Marlene Moore, said today. "She wouldn't trade Ladybug for all the wells in Gradyville," and added, "That's a sweet dog." But Danny has fuller days ahead now than yesterday. He'll have to manage the sale of the remaining leases in addition to carpentry, construction, and the beef business. He isn't saying what he'll do with the fortune expected, but as for Debbie, he says, "She can have anything she wants." This story was posted on 2007-10-19 18:02:17
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