Entek Preps Battle Mountain Well for Testing in Niobrara Play

- Entek Preps Battle Mountain Well for Testing in Niobrara Play

Thursday, August 11, 2011
Entek Energy Ltd.

Entek provided an update on the Niobrara Shale Oil Project Appraisal Program in the Green River Basin.

Battle Mountain 14-10L – The well is currently being prepared for testing in the Frontier Sandstone secondary objective. The completion procedure, which includes testing and fracture stimulation for the potential Niobrara pay zones is currently being refined by Halliburton.
Completion operations for the Niobrara are expected to start in September 2011.

Slater Dome (SD) Federal 24-9DL – The well has been spudded and is currently drilling the surface hole section at 400 ft. Casing is planned to be set at 2,500 ft before drilling the remainder of the well. The planned total depth of the well is 8,627 ft.

Entek holds a 55% interest in the Green River Basin Joint Venture (GRBJV) with Emerald Oil & Gas holding 45%. Entek is the Operator. The GRBJV now controls close to 80,000 gross acres, approximately 60,000 net acres, covering the Niobrara Shale Oil Play.

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Nigeria, Iran Battle for OPEC's No.2 Position

- Nigeria, Iran Battle for OPEC's No.2 Position

Thursday, July 28, 2011
OilPrice.com
by Charles Kennedy

Iran retains its position as the second-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, despite a recent OPEC report that Nigeria moved from the organization's third to second place, OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said.

OPECs' Annual Statistical Bulletin had put Nigeria ahead of Iran, but Iranian experts said they were examining the report, This Day newspaper reported.

Khatibi contended that OPEC's rankings were not based on export but determined by production data, commenting, "OPEC rationing is based on production, not export, and Iran still holds the second-largest OPEC producer status and no change has happened in this regard. In the report, Iran's oil income exceeds that of Nigeria in 2010. Then how would it be possible for Nigeria's oil income to be less than that of Iran despite having boosted its exports?"

Khatibi added that Iranian experts had found ambiguities in some of the figures in the OPEC report and accordingly the Iranian analysts "did not confirm Nigeria's export increase."

Reserves are one of the criteria OPEC has used to set output targets. Iran and Iraq were rivals in the past over OPEC quotas and OPEC in the next few years is expected to address the issue of bringing Iraq back into the quota system, from which it is currently exempted.

(Charles Kennedy is Deputy Editor of OilPrice.com. The original article appears here.)

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