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Blackbird Energy Inc.: Announces Third Montney Horizontal Well Spud
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Blackbird Energy Inc. ("Blackbird" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that, further to Blackbird's news release of January 17, 2012, Donnybrook Energy Inc. has informed the Company that the third Montney Horizontal well at Bigstone is scheduled to spud within two weeks from a surface location at 4-28-60-22 W5M and will be an extended reach Hz well with approximately 2,700 metres of lateral length planned to a bottom hole location at 13-33-60-22 W5M.
Operational Update on Second Montney Horizontal Well
Production tubing has been installed in the Bigstone Hz 15-32-60-22 W5M well and a seven day production test has been completed. The well flowed at an average rate of 1.1 mmcf/d. As previously reported, a review of the 23 stage hydraulic fracture stimulation that was performed on…
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