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Central Mackenzie Valley,
Northwest Territories ("CMV") The Company's acreage portfolio is comprised of three Exploration Licenses, three Significant Discovery Licenses and seven freehold parcels covering an area of approximately 600,000 gross acres. Through a series of joint ventures approximately $185 million has been spent exploring in this frontier region. As of December 1, 2009 nine exploration wells have been drilled yielding two significant discoveries, two cased wells that require production testing, one sign posting well and four dry holes. In addition the Company has participated in three proprietary gravity surveys and in five seismic programs.
A summary of the Company's discoveries in the CMV is as follows; The Company participated in drilling of the first hydrocarbon discovery south of the Norman Wells oilfield. The discovery well, Summit Creek B-44, flowed 20 MMCF/D and 6,300 barrels of condensate per day on a production test from two Devonian age reservoirs. The well discovered a new petroleum province south of Norman Wells. In 2008 a Significant Discovery License covering an area of 20 square kilometers was granted by the National Energy Board.
SUMMIT
A second discovery was made approximately 40 kms south of the Summit Creek B-44 well; the Stewart Lake well drill-stem tested 5 MMCF/D from a Cretaceous age reservoir. This is the first well in the Central Mackenzie Valley to flow hydrocarbons from the Cretaceous. A Significant Discovery License covering an area of 2,640 hectares of Crown lands and 3,960 hectares of Freehold lands was granted by the National Energy Board.
STEWART
Husky Oil Operations Limited is the operator of the Exploration and Significant Discovery Licenses.
Pipeline Infrastructure
The Central Mackenzie Valley is serviced by the Enbridge oil-pipeline that connects the Norman Wells oilfield to Northern Alberta. The pipeline, with additional compression, is capable of transporting up to 50,000 barrels of oil per day. The Norman Wells field has produced approximately 240 million barrels of oil to date and is currently producing in the 15,000 -- 18,000 barrels per day range. The Company's acreage is located approximately 70 kilometers from the Enbridge pipeline therefore if a commercial oil or liquids rich gas discovery is made it can be tied into the Enbridge pipeline. The Mackenzie Delta has yielded gas discoveries of 6.1 trillion cubic feet ("TCF") and has the potential to yield an undiscovered gas resource of 15.4 TCF (OGIP 1&2). The proven and prospective resources in the Mackenzie Delta combined with an estimated 5.7 TCF (OGIP 1&2) of undiscovered resource in the Central Mackenzie Valley are sufficient to justify construction of the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline. The operator of the proposed gas pipeline, Imperial Oil Ltd., together with its partners continue to negotiate fiscal terms with the Government of Canada to enhance the economics of the pipeline. The proponents expect a ruling by the National Energy Board in Q4, 2010. The proposed pipeline is designed for capacity of between 1.2 and 1.9 billion cubic feet per day.
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