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SMITH EMBAYMENT PROJECT

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The Smith Embayment was originally developed in the mid-1960’s, with the discovery of the oil in the Sherwood carbonate (Mission Canyon) at a depth of 4700’. To date, this area has produced approximately 3.7 million barrels of oil from the Sherwood and Mohall reservoirs. The discoveries were made with the use of 2-D seismic lines that were shot along section boundaries, so structures located within a section were not recognized.

A detailed geological and engineering study have been completed using core data from existing wells, decline curves and production data from existing wells, along with some of the existing 2-D data. The results of this study clearly indicate the following:

1.) Un-tapped reserves in the Sherwood can be exploited through the drilling of new wells, both horizontal and vertical, by extending existing fields and drilling into new satellite structures.

2.) Most wells that found production in the Sherwood did not drill deep enough to test the deeper Mohall. We now understand that locating Mohall accumulations under Sherwood field structures is an opportunity that was not earlier recognized.

3.) If the embayment, as well as the resulting structures were caused by salt collapse, deeper beds, such as the Nisku, Duperow and Red River could be productive below the Mission Canyon here, as they are in other parts of the basin.