Saturn Oil & Gas Inc. is pleased to announce the operational results of the 2021 third quarter drilling and workover program.
Third Quarter Drilling Program
Saturn drilled three operated, 100% working interest, Extended Reach Horizontal (“ERH”) wells targeting Viking oil at its Loverna property (the “Loverna Wells”), performed workovers/re-activations of existing non-producing wells, and participated in two gross, non-operated wells (0.54 net wells), for $4.5 million of total capital expenditure. All three of the Loverna Wells were drilled successfully, brought into production in October 2021 and are in-line with the Company’s internal forecasted production rates of light oil. The non-operated wells and workovers contributed additional light oil production throughout the third quarter, with strong capital efficiencies and production results exceeding internal expectations.
“We are extremely pleased with the results of the completed drills, especially the encouraging results of the southern-most well of this program,” commented Justin Kaufmann, Senior Vice-President, Exploration. “It was drilled on a section that previously had been unexplored for Viking oil and had the strongest production of the three drilled wells. This further proves up our internal geologic model in the regional area, opens the prospectivity for development of Saturn’s contiguous five sections of land, and de-risks up to 10 new ERH drilling locations.”
Current Company production is approximately 7,000 boe/d (96% crude oil and NGLs), based on field estimates.