EXPLORATION FOR COALBED METHANE STARTS UP IN NORTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA

Bruce J. Sakashita Resource Enterprises Inc. Salt Lake City A consortium of three Canadian companies and a U.S. firm, Resources Enterprises Inc. (REI), Salt Lake City, has been awarded the rights for coalbed methane gas exploration on 250,000 acres in the Cumberland basin of Nova Scotia, Canada. The license agreement requires that geological and engineering studies be performed during 1993 to select exploratory well locations. Three slimhole wells must be drilled by yearend 1994, and three