Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. announced that the company plans to commence drilling for its initial 5-well program in Southwest Kansas on or before Feb. 5, 2014. The company expects to complete all five wells by the end of March and then evaluate before commencing with the second five well program.

Torchlight Energy signed the JV agreement on October 17, 2013 to acquire a 50% working interest on 17,000 acres of highly prospective oil and gas fields in Gray, Haskell and Finney Counties in Southwest Kansas in the southern end of the Hugoton play.