PetroFrontier Corp. announce the spudding of its third horizontal well, "Owen-3", in the Southern Georgina Basin, Northern Territory, Australia. Owen-3 is located in the eastern part of Exploration Permit ("EP") 104 where PetroFrontier currently holds a 100% operated working interest and is included in the recently announced joint venture area with Statoil Australia Oil and Gas AS ("Statoil"). Statoil is crediting PetroFrontier with exploration expenditures already incurred in 2012 and will contribute 50% of the costs associated with this project.
Owen-3 will test the unconventional potential of the primary target zone, the Lower Arthur Creek "Hot Shale", in the Toko Synclinal area. Owen-3 will be drilled as a high angle pilot hole to an estimated depth of 1,280 metres, through the Lower Arthur Creek "Hot Shale" Formation and into the Thorntonian carbonate Formation. PetroFrontier will core the Lower Arthur Creek "Hot Shale" Formation and then log the well. The core will provide valuable technical information to enhance PetroFrontier's understanding of the lithology of this formation, which will aid in optimizing the frac design and reservoir modeling. Owen-3 will be plugged back a short distance and then deviated horizontally for approximately 1,000 metres into the primary target zone. Drilling of Owen-3 is expected to take four to five weeks.
Fracture Stimulation Update
Following the drilling of Owen-3H, PetroFrontier intends to conduct a ten-stage fracture stimulation program at each of its three wells in the following order: MacIntyre-2H, Baldwin-2Hst1 and Owen-3H. In order to maximize operational efficiencies, the wells will then be flow tested in the reverse order. The Lower Arthur Creek "Hot Shale" Formation is an unconventional play requiring the use of advanced horizontal drilling and completion techniques in order to properly test for economic flow rates. PetroFrontier will provide market updates on the frac operations as results materialize and definitive results will be confirmed once PetroFrontier can flow test all of these wells, which is expected to occur over the next few months and prior to the onset of the local Australian wet season.
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