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Manitok Tests 15th Cardium Well; Hits 533 BO/d
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Manitok Energy Inc. has reported an update on its 2013 drilling program.
The 15th Cardium oil well in Manitok's Stolberg drilling program was recently completed and production tested. It is the third horizontal Cardium oil well of a four well pad in which Manitok has a 33.3% working interest. The well was completed and tested over approximately a 75 hour test period.
Initially, the well swabbed in at a rate of about 533 bbls/d (178 net) of oil with little associated gas, however, during the final 30 hours of the test period, the well free-flowed to surface at 764 bbls/d (255 net) of 40º API oil and 64 boe/d (21 net) of associated sweet gas. This well was unstimulated and artificial lift was not required to bring the oil to surface during the final 30 hour flow period.
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