Exploration & Production
Solimar Talks Up Kreyenhagen Shale Activity

Solimar Energy has reported an update for the Company's 100% owned Kreyenhagen shale oil project in the San Joaquin Basin, California.
The Kreyenhagen shale is a world class oil source rock that has been typed to approximately 3 bboe oil and gas from the surrounding fields, notably Kettleman North and Middle Dome and Coalinga. Solimar holds 9,146 net acres within this prospective unconventional shale fairway that has recently attracted significant attention from major international oil companies on offsetting acreage in the San Joaquin Basin. The naturally fractured Kreyenhagen shale has historically produced from work overs of vertical wells at both Kettleman North and Middle Dome fields.
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