
Apache on puuhastellut alueella jo vuoden verran, mutta ei ole juurikaan ilmoitellut tekemisistään.
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 16, 2010) - Anglo Canadian Oil Corp. ("Anglo" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:ACG) has completed the initial evaluation of the vertical Sturgeon Lake S. 5-10 well. After placing 60 tonnes of sand into the Nordegg zone using propane as a carrier fluid, the well produced, over the last four days of swabbing, a stabilized average of 1.5 m3 oil/d (9 bbl oil/d) with water cuts at 61%. The well will be put on pump as soon as possible to evaluate longer term production.
"No further hydraulic fracturing will continue in New York state until 1 July next year at the earliest, following a decision by outgoing Governor David Paterson."
Apache Corp., Houston, (NYSE; Nasdaq: APA) reports that the first two horizontal wells targeting the Hogshooter segment of the Granite Wash play in the Anadarko Basin have each commenced production at rates exceeding 2,000 barrels of oil per day (BO/d).
The Hogshooter wash is shallower, younger and more oil-prone than previous Granite Wash targets in western Oklahoma and in the Texas Panhandle. The two wells were drilled more than 15 miles apart in Beckham County, Okla., near the east/west axis of the Granite Wash play. The distance between the wells points to meaningful potential in the Hogshooter segment across a broad area. Apache controls 200,000 gross acres in the Granite Wash play and leased nearly 30,000 net acres in 2010.
Edler #1-5, in Section 5 of Township 11N-20 W in Beckham County, commenced production at a daily rate of 2,050 barrels of oil and 3.7 million cubic feet (MMcf) of gas. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of approximately 11,360 feet with a 4,360-foot horizontal section before it was completed in eight stages. Apache owns an 82% interest in the well.
Thetford #4-23, in Section 23 of Township 11N-23W in Beckham County, initially produced 2,100 barrels of oil and 3.2 MMcf of gas per day. It was drilled to a vertical depth of approximately 10,900 feet with a 4,280-foot horizontal section and then completed in nine stages. Apache owns a 56% interest in the well.
After almost two months on production, each of the wells is averaging approximately 700 barrels of oil and 3.5 MMcf of gas per day.
Apache currently is operating nine horizontal rigs in the Granite Wash play and plans to drill a third horizontal Hogshooter well by year-end. For 2011, the company currently plans to add a tenth horizontal rig and drill more than 40 horizontal Granite Wash wells, including 10 in the oil-rich Hogshooter. Over the past year, Apache has completed 19 Granite Wash horizontal wells with current aggregate net production of 2,600 barrels of oil and 40 MMcf of gas per day. Seven wells are awaiting completion.
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Strategic Oil & Gas Ltd. Announces $5 Million Bought Deal Flow Through Share Financing and Provides Update on Operations
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Strategic Oil & Gas Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SOG) ("Strategic" or the "Company") provides an update on financing and operations.
Financing
Strategic announces that it has entered into a financing agreement with Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd., to issue and sell on a "bought-deal" basis, 4,500,000 Common Shares to be issued on a flow-through basis (the "Flow-Through Common Shares") at a price of $1.10 per Flow-Through Common Share, for expected gross proceeds of $4,950,000.
The Flow-Through Common Share proceeds will be used to incur eligible Canadian exploration expenditures that will be renounced to subscribers effective on or before December 31, 2010. Flow-Through Common Shares will be offered in certain provinces of Canada to accredited investors.
Closing is expected to occur on or about December 23, 2010 and is subject to certain conditions including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary approvals including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Operations update
Strategic has recently entered into a farm-in arrangement ("the Farm-in") with an intermediate oil and gas company. The terms of the Farm-in provide for Strategic to drill a minimum of two wells in an oil bearing region of northern Alberta. The first of the two wells was recently spud, with the second location to be drilled before mid-January of 2011. It is anticipated that these wells will qualify as Canadian exploration expenditures.
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"Shale development in the Rainbow area had been relatively non-existent until late September 2009 when CCRL drilled a horizontal well at 02-30-109-08W6 targeting "what we believe is Muskwa shale oil," Kwan said.
"While still on confidential status, the well was producing on a calendar day basis at a peak rate of approximately 100 bbls per day (37-38°API). On top of this, a producer(s), under the guise of several land brokers, managed to purchase over 250 net sections through Crown land sales since 2010," he added."
ALGARY, ALBERTA, Dec. 7, 2010 (Marketwire) -- Bowood Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BWD) ("Bowood" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic joint venture and farmout arrangement (the "Joint Venture") with Legacy Oil + Gas Inc. ("Legacy"), on Bowood's extensive Alberta Bakken acreage, consisting of approximately 183 sections (117,000 acres) of lands (the "Lands") located in southern Alberta.
Under the terms of the Joint Venture, Legacy will, through a combination of land equalization and drilling, have the ability to earn 50 percent of Bowood's entire interest in the Alberta Bakken fairway lands. Initially, Legacy will equalize into a portion of the Lands by providing a cash payment to Bowood of $8 million to purchase a 50 percent working interest in 33,280 acres (52 sections) of Lands (the "Acquired Lands"). The Acquired Lands consist of a mix of Crown and Freehold Lands which are not located on the Blood Tribe Reserve (the "Blood Tribe Lands").
On the remaining 131 gross sections of land (the "Farmout Lands"), including the 94.75 gross sections of Blood Tribe Lands, Legacy initially will drill two (2) horizontal Test Wells which will target the lower Banff, Exshaw/Bakken and Big Valley formations. The first Test Well will spud prior to March 31, 2011 and the second Test Well will be spud prior to August 31, 2011. One of the Test Wells will be located on the Blood Tribe Lands and the other will be located on the remaining non-Blood Lands. With each Test Well, Legacy will be responsible for 80 percent of the drilling and completions costs of such Test Well and and shall earn a 50 percent working interest in 8 sections of the Farmout Lands. Following the drilling of the two Test Wells, Legacy will have the right to continue earning in the Farmout Lands on a rolling option basis...
CAMARILLO, CA, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - BNK Petroleum Inc. (the "Company") (TSX: BKX) is pleased to announce that Mr. Martin Robert is joining the Company as Vice President of Engineering and Operations. Mr. Robert has extensive managerial and operational experience in Canada, France, The Netherlands, Russia and Argentina. Until recently, Mr. Robert was the President and CEO of ArPetrol Inc., a private oil and gas company with assets in Argentina. Previously Mr. Robert held the positions of Vice President of Engineering and International Operations at Vermilion Energy Trust (TSX) and President of Vermilion REP SA operating in France. Mr. Robert is a Petroleum Engineer and graduated with Honors from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering.
The company also wishes to announce that the drilling rig to drill its Wytowmno well in Poland is expected to begin mobilizing on December 6th and that the well is expected to spud on or about December 16th.
Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada - Trading Halt - Strategic Oil and Gas Ltd. - SOG
Nov. 26, 2010 (Canada NewsWire Group) --
VANCOUVER, Nov. 26 /CNW/ - The following issues have been halted by Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC):
Issuer Name: Strategic Oil and Gas Ltd.
TSX-V Ticker Symbol: SOG
Time of Halt: 11:59 ET
Reason for Halt: Company request pending news
Since the start of October, drilling companies have ordered at least 17 new rigs, a wave of spending that signals optimism that oil prices will remain high and that producers will continue to demand the latest advances in equipment as they tap increasingly hard-to-reach offshore reservoirs...
"The Company is well positioned in the Upper Devonian Exshaw/Wabamun Formation play which is developing beneath our Claresholm gas property. This project coined "the Alberta Bakken" prospect, while still in its infancy, has garnered considerable interest with Industry players acquiring large land positions through record Crown land sale purchases, negotiations on First Nations Treaty Lands and Corporate acquisitions. Argosy Energy has exposure to 33.5 sections of lands on this prospect most of which has company owned proprietary 3D seismic coverage. In October Argosy commenced the drilling of a vertical well which targeted the extension of the Bow Island gas zone and was deepened to evaluate the reservoir characteristics and content of the Upper Wabamun section. Results of this well are encouraging and suggest that horizontal technology, which is currently being used by a number of operators in this area, would lend itself on the Argosy lands. The Company is planning one additional Wabamun Formation test well at or near year end."
While there's growing industry interest around some emerging shale/tight oil plays in Alberta, companies involved in the early-phase exploration of them have offered little in the way of publicly-available information and data to date.
Aside from the Alberta Bakken/Exshaw, the Devonian Muskwa/Duvernay shales in northwest Alberta's Deep Basin, the Jurassic Nordegg shales in the Peace River area of Alberta and the Cretaceous Second White Specks in the Deep Basin are also in play.
"Given virtually no long-term horizontal production history and very early geochemical, petrophysical, and mineralogical data, we believe it is too early to comment on which shale oil play will end up at the top of the heap," said Macquarie Equities Research analyst Ray Kwanin a recent report.
"...while thefirst Muskwa horizontal by CCRL produced at a peak rate of 100 bbls per day on a calendar daybasis. So far, there have been no horizontals drilled in the oil window of the Duvernay," he said.
Shale development in the Rainbow area had been relatively non-existent until late September 2009 when CCRL drilled a horizontal well at 02-30-109-08W6 targeting "what we believe is Muskwa shale oil," Kwan said.
"While still on confidential status, the well was producing on a calendar day basis at a peak rate of approximately 100 bbls per day (37-38°API). On top of this, a producer(s), under the guise of several land brokers, managed to purchase over 250 net sections through Crown land sales since 2010," he added.
"In our view, the leading contender is EOG Resources, which recently came out of hiding by licensing a horizontal Muskwa well this summer (T107-R09W6). EOG is arguably the most knowledgeable and astute producer in identifying shale oil plays in North America."
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Noble Corporation Announces Agreement to Construct Second Globetrotter-Class Ultra-Deepwater Drillship(9. elokuuta)(NE:llä oli jo poraussopimus porauslaivalle)
Atwood Oceanics Announces Construction of Two Jack-Up Drilling Units(5. lokakuuta)
SDRL - Seadrill orders two new jack-ups for delivery in 2012 and 2013 (18. lokakuuta)
Keppel FELS Enters into Letter of Intent with Mermaid for Two Newbuild Jackup Rigs Worth $360 Million (26. lokakuuta)
SDRL - Seadrill orders new ultra-deepwater drillships for delivery in 2013 (11. marraskuuta)
SDRL - Seadrill orders two new jack-ups in China for delivery in 2012 and 2013 (15. marraskuuta)
Transocean Ltd. Announces Agreement to Purchase High-Specification Jackup(15. marraskuuta)(tämä ei ole uusi tilaus vaan alus oli jo rakenteilla)
Maersk Drilling Plans to Order Rig Every Six Months, Chief Hemmingsen Says(16. marraskuuta)
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PGS Strengthens Capital Base to Invest in Fleet Expansion(15. marraskuuta)
Polarcus orders two new high-end 3D seismic vessels(18. marraskuuta)
HOUSTON, TX, Nov 15, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) today announced the Mercury-1 exploration well offshore Sierra Leone encountered approximately 135 net feet of oil pay in two Cretaceous-age fan systems. Mercury is the company's second deepwater test in the Sierra Leone-Liberian Basin and was drilled to a total depth of approximately 15,950 feet in about 5,250 feet of water.
"The Mercury well demonstrates that the stratigraphic trapping systems we've identified are working, and that the petroleum system is generating high-quality oil," Anadarko Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Exploration Bob Daniels said. "In the primary objective, the Mercury well encountered approximately 114 net feet of light sweet crude oil with a gravity of between 34 and 42 degrees API, with no water contact. An additional 21 net feet of 24-degree gravity crude was encountered in a shallower secondary objective.
"These results continue to build momentum in the basin and enhance our confidence in the team's seismic interpretation and geologic modeling," added Daniels. "We are preserving the wellbore for potential re-entry, DST (drillstem testing) or a down-dip sidetrack to further delineate the reservoir's areal extent, quality and deliverability. We also plan to continue working with the government of Sierra Leone and our partnership to accelerate exploration and appraisal activity in the area in 2011."
SDRL - Seadrill orders new ultra-deepwater drillships for delivery in 2013
Hamilton, Bermuda, November 11, 2010 - Seadrill has entered into a turnkey contract to build up to four new ultra-deepwater drillships at the Samsung yard in South Korea. The first two drillships are firmly ordered with delivery in the first and second quarter 2013, respectively. Total project price per rig is estimated to be less than US$600 million, which includes a turnkey contract with the yard, project management, drilling and handling tools, spares, capitalized interest and operations preparations. The contract further includes a fixed price option for further two drillships to be declared during the first quarter 2011...
"Flat Lake
The Bakken discovery well, CPEC et al Flat Lake HZ 3B5-10-4B5-9-1-16W2 (35% working interest) flowed at an average restricted rate of 208 bbls/d for a 24 hour period following 5 days of continuous testing. The well was shut-in temporarily in order to prepare it for production.
This is the first well drilled in the Company’s new Flat Lake core area, which was acquired through a farm-in arrangement. Through participation in the well, Painted Pony now has a contiguous block of 6,000 net acres (9.4 sections), all of which is Crown land that will receive Saskatchewan’s deep horizontal royalty incentive on the first 100,680 bbls produced per horizontal well. The Flat Lake asset provides a significant increase to the Company’s Bakken drilling inventory."
"On the LIAS shale oil play in France, Vermilion has fracture stimulated two suspended wellbores in 2010. The wells are currently producing oil and the Company is gathering reservoir data. In addition to the 175,000 acres currently held on this play, Vermilion has applied for an additional 636,721 acres. The final awarding of the additional acreage is expected to occur by year end 2010."
Mark Polak - Scotia Capital
Hi, guys. First question just on, Exshaw, wondering sort of how much activity you have got plan next year and wondering give us your thoughts on what do you think the resource potential is there and just what excited you about that play there?
David Wood
We’re still trying to grow our position there and so have an active effort but we want to get to drilling and we’ll probably move a rig in and be drilling the first well in January and the first phase for us when we get into these plays is to do some appraising and so we’ll probably have six wells in that appraisal program that will be drilled consecutively and this will drill core and likely test. We’re fortunate in on some of our acreage is already two old wells that have recovered oil. They weren’t drilled for this particular actual horizon but they did recover some oil. So we have a good place to start and I’m pretty encouraged.
We talk about that acreage being Exshaw play but there really is two other horizons that are equally in our mind today perspective. The Exshaw is the deepest horizon but we see a jurassic [ph] level called Rierdon and a shallow cretaceous level called the Second White Speckled Shale which is a ugly name but that’s what it’s called, is also being perspective and so our appraisal program is going to target some of those horizons to also see if they have some running room as well. So I’m pretty excited about the play, its early days and we won’t get after.
Mark Gilman - Benchmark Company
You characterized the Exshaw is being similar to Bakken. Could we talk in a little bit more technical detail in terms of comparability between the two?
David Wood
Happy to. It’s a geological equivalent. If you look at the make-up in terms of how it looks as a section, it’s about 10% thinner overall than the sweet spots of the Bakken. It does have the same carrier bed in the middle. So, given the results of the Bakken where that is a key contributor to how wells perform, lateral wells perform with regard that is being very positive. It has very similar geologic characteristics. The oil that was recovered from the two wells on acreage we have is good quality oil, low-30 gravity. The section is over pressured. So, it is quite analogous. I didn’t really want us to stop calling it back because we don’t have enough data yet and geologically things change over these long distances, but it does have a lot of very similar characteristics.
Mark Gilman - Benchmark Company
How does the brittleness if you know compare to that which we’ve seen in the Bakken?
David Wood
From the data we have which is not complete and I would hold off until we actually core the section ourselves and conduct it, I would say it is comparable, but that is a question in terms of the ability to frac the carrier bed.
Regarding oil, our individual wells are performing as expected. But we underestimated the downtime for patent drilling and delays for frac equipment. As we previously stated, optimizing shale oil or gas recovery requires drilling five or six side-by-side wells, frac-ing them simultaneously and only then turning all wells to production. Therefore, if frac equipment is delayed, it doesn't affect only one well but cascades to five or six wells and the associated production. We believe our updated volume estimates now account for this methodology.
To give you a little more color on these frac equipment delays, we're currently experiencing delays in almost every one of our divisions and have about 100 wells experiencing delays. Since most of our budget is oil wells, this disproportionately affects oil volumes. These delays won't go away anytime soon. And our new 2011 and 2012 growth forecasts assume the frac delays continue until at least mid-2011.
Mark Papa
That's a good point. Let me correct one thing. I misspoke a little bit earlier. I said 160 miles for the Eagle Ford. That's really 120 miles with a possible 20-mile extension. In terms of the frac situation between April and today, it's really gotten worse, I mean, worse from a producer's viewpoint. It's literally at a point now where if we want to frac a well, and we call up one of the major service companies, typically they'll say, "Well, we can get to you maybe right after the first of year. And the price, we'll tell you the first of year. But it's going to be even higher than your worst case scenario to frac this well. And if you don't like that particular price availability, well, we've got a lot of other people had a needing fracs. But I would say we certainly had a peak drilling activity several years ago, when gas was $9 or $10 and there was a frenzy of activity. But the frac situation was not as tight then as it is today, in my opinion.
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital Markets Corporation
I guess I'll press to Williston a little bit here. So you all didn't say what you paid for the 100,000 acres. I know you disclosed the price in the Anschutz stuff. Can you kind of give us color on that? And maybe some indication, are you looking at Montana, North Dakota or both?
Aubrey McClendon
Scott, it's still pretty early. And that's a basin that, historically, we've not done well in. We've made a run on it Lyco in 2005 and Headington in 2008. We wanted -- both of those deals would've given us a really strong position in the Williston today, and we failed in both those opportunities. So we've been poking around. And we saw something that we liked, and we acquired it. It does not have any production on it. It's just acreage, and it's an idea that we have that it's a little early to talk about in any more detail. We suspect that it probably doesn't get to a size of needing a joint venture partner, but we'll see. But I can confirm it's in the Williston Basin, and it will be an oil play for us.
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital Markets Corporation
Is there a lot of industry activity around you? And obviously, it was almost 160 rigs in the basin. It's hard to believe there's a lot of acreage of oil production on that.
Aubrey McClendon
Yes, I mean, we didn't buy -- we don't buy fringe stuff. It's not really our style. We try to buy core acreage. But occasionally, we have a different idea than some folks about how the world works. And so we'll see how this plays out.
PETRODORADO ENERGY LTD ("PDQ-V") - Exploratory Success In Its Visure-1x Well, Buganviles Block
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Petrodorado Energy Ltd. ("Petrodorado" or the "Company") announces a new exploratory success at its Visure-1X well, located in the Buganviles Block, Upper Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia.
The Visure-1X well, located in the Visure prospect, to the southeastern border of the Buganviles Block, was drilled to evaluate a structural trap, similar to the nearby producing Abanico field, to the northeast. The well had three main exploratory targets: the Upper, Lower Cretaceous Guadalupe Formation and the Tertiary Barzalosa Formation. The well was drilled slightly deviated at an angle of 9 degrees and found the top of the Barzalosa Formation at 2,206 feet MD (1,040 feet TVDSS), the Upper Guadalupe at 2,995 feet MD (1,825 feet TVDSS), the Lower Guadalupe at 3,079 feet MD (1,908 feet TVDSS), and the top of Villeta Formation at 3,272 feet MD (2,099 feet TVDSS).
The petrophysical evaluation of the well in Barzalosa, Upper and Lower Guadalupe Formations indicated a total liquid hydrocarbon net pay of 114 feet in the three intervals, ranging from 24.5 to 45.5 feet of net pay and 16% to 26% average porosity. In additional to the oil bearing sandstones, the well also encountered gas saturated sandstones in the Barzalosa Formation (3 feet).
The Visure-1X well was drilled in the southwestern flank of the Visure prospect, and confirmed an oil-water contact at 1,970 feet TVDSS in the Lower Guadalupe Formation, and according to the seismic interpretation, the crest of the structure at this level, 0.7 km to the northeast, has been mapped at 1,915 feet TVDSS, which could imply an additional 65 feet of hydrocarbon column for the Visure prospect in the Lower Guadalupe Formation. The Company is now presently preparing the testing of the Lower and Upper Guadalupe formations, and plans to complete Visure-1X as a Guadalupe producer...
Reliable Energy Ltd. ("Reliable" or the "Company") (TSX-V: REL) is pleased to announce that it has acquired more than 100,000 net acres (156 net sections) of exploratory land in Blaine County, Montana that the Company believes is prospective for multi zone opportunities, including the Bakken formation. The land was acquired through negotiations with a US Company for their net interest in the lands in this area.
Total consideration for the acquisition was approximately $1 million and the sale is effective June 1, 2010.
“Murray Swanson, President and CEO of Reliable Energy said. “This acquisition complements Reliable’s stated strategy of acquiring key tracts of land early in the exploration cycle and focusing on a limited number of Core areas with conventional and unconventional multi-zone potential. Reliable now has total land holdings of approximately 200,000 net acres (308 net sections) in its three core areas of Manitoba/Saskatchewan, Alberta and Montana.”
As part of the acquisition, Reliable has participated in a confidential exploration well on the lands licensed to The Birdbear. The well has been cased and is awaiting evaluation of core and log data.
"OEOG has entered into joint venture and lease agreements in respect of significant lands on the Ermineskin First Nation (2,235 hectares) ("Ermineskin Lands"). In addition, OEOG has also entered into agreements on lands contiguous to the Ermineskin Lands (1,554 gross hectares) ("Adjacent Lands"). OEOG has also entered into a farm-in and option agreement with a private company in respect of lands which are on the Fort Belknap First Nation and other lands in the area (3,885 gross hectares) (the "Montana Lands"). OEOG retains an option to continue drilling on a rolling option basis covering over 100,000 hectares in Montana."
CPEC BARONS 1-15-12-24
PRODUCTION - NPW (C)
Well ID: 00/01-15-012-24W4/0
Fluid: CRUDE OIL
Licensee: CRESCENT POINT ENERGY CORP.
License Date: 29-Oct-2010
Projected Depth: 2,185.0 m
Field: UNDEFINED
Terminating Zone: WABAMUN GRP
Yhtiön johto on varsin kokenutta; tj. Walls on geologi ja on ollut kasaamassa useita öljy-yhtiöitä(mm. Fairborne Energy) ja muilla ylimmän johdon jäsenillä kokemusta mm. Ecopetrolista, Gran Tierrasta, Lukoilista, Verenexistä(Vermilionin entinen tytäryhtiö), BP:stä, Conocosta.