Kenai Loop Project – Spud Update
Buccaneer Energy Limited (“Buccaneer” or “the Company”) is pleased to advise that it expects to spud the Kenai Loop # 1 well on 16 April 2011 (US time).
Kenai Loop is an onshore gas play located in the eastern Cook Inlet Basin in the northern part of the Kenai Peninsula near the city of Kenai (see attached map to the ASX announcement). The Company has now acquired 100% working interest (80% to 86.5% net revenue interest) in approximately 9,009 acres from multiple landowners.
Features of the Kenai Loop Project are as follows:
- Lies on a ridge between the Kenai Cannery Loop field (175 BCF gas production) and Beaver Creek oil and gas field (6 million barrels oil and 205 BCF gas production);
- Seismic amplitude anomalies in the same productive intervals as the above fields;
- Several control wells and 200 miles of 2D seismic data were used to map Kenai Loop and, similar to the surrounding fields, there are multiple stacked pay zone possibilities between 5,000 and 10,000 feet;
- Resource potential per well is 5 BCF gas and the in-house estimated reserve range is between 35 - 78 BCF gas with most likely reserves of 52 BCF gas. Initial rates per well are estimated to be in the 5 to 10 million cubic feet per day range;
- One drilling permit has been granted and an additional two drilling locations are in the process of being permitted;
- The first well will be a step-out well from the Kenai Cannery Loop field;
- 1 mile to the nearest gas sales pipeline;
- Strong local market for gas in the area, recent gas contracts have a US$7.00 / MCF floor and US$10.00 / MCF ceiling.
Download this document
