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Contact Completes Large High-Gas Well in Kakwa Montney D4
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Contact Exploration Inc. has announced that the seventh Contact-operated horizontal Montney well at 02/14-30-63-5 W6 drilled in the Upper Montney D4 interval has been successfully completed and tested.
The well was drilled to a total measured depth of 4,563 metres, with a horizontal leg of 1,068 metres, approximately 200-500 metres shorter than Contact's other Kakwa wells and the shortest of the Company's Kakwa horizontal wells drilled to date. The well was completed using a water-based nitrogen foam frac and then tested for approximately 119 hours, flowing up 4.5 inch casing.
During the final 24 hours of flow-back the well continued to clean up frac fluid and produced against anticipated gathering system pressure of approximately 1,800 kPa and averaged gross production rates of 1,076…
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