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Dejour Turns on Taps at Niobrara Kokopelli Project

Dejour Energy Inc. has initiated natural gas production from the first two of four new wells at the Company’s flagship Kokopelli project.
As previously disclosed, the four wells were to be completed in sets of two in the Williams Fork formation with eight frac stages per well. Halliburton (HAL) has now completed the work under a turnkey contract arrangement and all four wells will be placed into production by the end of next week. In order to minimize the release of the hydrocarbons to the atmosphere, per Dejour’s policy of ‘green completions,’ each well’s production will be placed into sales as soon as the well is capable of flowing into the gathering system. Dejour’s liquids rich gas is transported and sold through gathering, processing and transportation arrangements with WPX Energy…
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