TUSK to develop light oil in NW Alberta

March 23, 2006
TUSK Energy Corp., Calgary, plans to develop light oil discoveries in the Mega-Venus focus area of Alberta 300 km northwest of Edmonton.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 23 -- TUSK Energy Corp., Calgary, plans to develop light oil discoveries in the Mega-Venus focus area of Alberta 300 km northwest of Edmonton.

Logs at the most recent well, Gutah 6-17-100-6-w6m, indicated 7.7 m of oil pay in a 13.5-m zone of gross porosity in Devonian Keg River. The well flared gas and flowed oil from Keg River during drilling and coring. TD is 2,425 m.

The well flowed more than 800 b/d of 46° gravity oil on a 9/32-in. choke. On a 5/32-in. choke, the flow was 345 b/d and 180 Mcfd of gas with 8,000 KPa flowing tubing pressure with less than 5% pressure drawdown. Alberta regulations will limit production to 125 b/d.

Gutah is 4 miles south of the TUSK Mega light oil discovery of January 2004. A 6-in. pipeline built from the Mega area to regional infrastructure is being extended to Gutah this week.

The third discovery in the area was the Venus 6-36-101-9w6m gas-condensate find in the 2005 winter.

TUSK holds interest in the Gutah discovery and six other sections believed prospective. It concluded a 3D seismic survey of all lands believed prospective earlier this month.