By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 10 -- Exall Energy Corp., Calgary, said its Marten Mountain horizontal oil discovery in Alberta 140 miles north-northwest of Edmonton flowed 1,585 b/d of 40° gravity sweet oil and 575 Mcfd of gas at 850 kpa flowing pressure.
Exall, operator with 59.338% working interest before payout and 66% after payout, plans to drill a second horizontal well from the same pad and a vertical well nearby as soon as surface access permits, likely to be in the third quarter. The company has 66% interest in 6,080 surrounding acres.
The well, in 102/14-1-75-6w5, averaged 1,135 b/d and 475 Mcfd from Devonian Gilwood on a 21.7-mm choke. The Alberta allowable for the well is expected to be 285 b/d. The well penetrated 420 m of Gilwood sand.
