Permits for two pairs of horizontal oil drilling ventures in the Ackerly area have been approved during the past few weeks by the Texas Railroad Commission.Houston-based Callon Petroleum Operating Co. received permits to drill a pair of wells in the very southeastern corner of Dawson County, a little over a mile east of Ackerly.To be drilled from surface locations just 30 feet apart, the Copper Creek A6 11SH and the Cooper Creek A6 18H are each scheduled for a total depth of 8,900 feet.Each of the well bores will go to the south-southeast for almost two miles, passing beneath the ...