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Torchlight Completes Test Well, Plans Further Drilling

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. has completed and is producing oil from its first vertical test well, the Flying B Ranch #1, in its Midland Basin Hazel Project.
The well was the first on Torchlight's 12,000 gross acre position in the Midland Basin.
Frac / Completion InformationThe well was completed using a single stage frac.
The Company acidized and successfully performed a 210,000 lb. frac, testing a 250-foot pay zone interval in the Wolfcamp A formation. After testing production Torchlight has determined that sufficient quantities of oil exist to warrant further field development.
Horizontal wells in the Hazel Project are expected to require ~7500-foot lateral legs and a frac stage for every 100 feet of pay zone exposure encountered (resulting in up to 70 frac stages).
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