By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 16 -- Echo Energy Canada Inc., Toronto, spudded the first of three 3,400-ft exploration wells to Precambrian in southwestern Ontario in late April.
The company purchased high-resolution aeromagnetic data over its lands in Elgin and Norfolk counties, 30 miles southeast of London, and shot three seismic lines from which it identified the locations.
Targets are the Trenton-Black River fractured carbonates and Cambrian sandstone reservoirs in the southeastern Michigan basin.
Echo Energy has drilled 73 wells south of Tillsonburg, Ont., since 2001 and delivers 1.5 MMcfd of gas from the Silurian Thorold sandstone at 1,400 ft in 53 wells to Union Gas and Talisman Energy near Lake Erie.
The company plans to test the sour gas potential of the Silurian Guelph carbonate at 1,100 ft in at least one well. That gas, if completed, would be delivered to Talisman, which operates treating facilities for its gas produced in the lake.
