Alberta: Steen River horizontal well on production test
Strategic Oil & Gas Ltd., Calgary, has completed a horizontal oil well in the Devonian Sulphur Point formation at the Steen River astrobleme near the northwestern corner of Alberta.
Strategic Oil & Gas Ltd., Calgary, has completed a horizontal oil well in the Devonian Sulphur Point formation at the Steen River astrobleme near the northwestern corner of Alberta.
The 102/11-22-122-21 w5m well intersected an oil-stained dolomite zone 8 m thick. The 662-m lateral has been completed open hole without acid wash or fracturing.
Flow tested for 8.5 hr, the well recovered fluid at a rate of 730 b/d. Final water cut was 25%, and most of the produced water is completion fluid. Testing continued.
Strategic owns 100% of 58 contiguous sections (14,848 ha) with multizone oil and gas potential around the astrobleme and has mapped a 4-6 m thick Sulphur Point dolomite zone over the 58 sections.
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Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
