British Columbia
British Columbia's Oil and Gas Commission approved implementation of a waterflood in the Triassic Halfway oil pool at Woodrush in Northeast BC.
Without giving figures, Dejour Enterprises Ltd., Calgary, said the $3.2 million project will hike oil recovery to 42% from 17% of original oil in place. Dejour has 75% working interest in the project. Construction is to start in early January 2011, water injection is to start in February, peak response is expected in the 2011 third quarter.
Alaska
A unit of Miller Petroleum Inc., Huntsville, Tenn., has reworked a well in the West McArthur River Unit in Alaska's Cook Inlet with tubing configured to produce oil and to be converted for water injection without further intervention.
Workover of the WMRU-2A well, shut in since Dec. 24, 2001, involved the rigless coiled tubing method and resulted in a test rate of 37 b/d of oil. The well has produced nearly 1,000 bbl of oil, helping to offset the $500,000 workover cost. The well provides back-up to Miller's existing injection well and positions the company to implement a waterflood program.
Pennsylvania
Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, met its internal target of doubling net production from the Marcellus shale in 2010 and expects to double output again in 2011.
Output averaged 212 MMcfd of gas equivalent in the first 2 weeks of December, exceeding the 210 MMcfd goal.
Flow is to start in late January 2011 from the company's northeastern Pennsylvania Marcellus acreage as the first phase of pipeline and compression facilities is completed.
The company expects production increases from southwestern and northeastern Pennsylvania to reach the expected 2011 exit rate of 400-420 MMcfed. Range employs 290 people on its Marcellus team.
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