Marksmen Announces Drilling, Completions and Strategic Update
16 June 2014 - 11:01PM
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Marksmen Announces Drilling, Completions and Strategic Update
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Jun 16, 2014) - Marksmen Energy
Inc. (TSX-VENTURE:MAH) ("Marksmen" or the "Company") is pleased to
announce that Marksmen and its Joint Venture Partner, Houghton
Investments LLC ("Houghton"), completed the drilling of their
fourth well (B-78-10),on June14, 2014. During the drilling of the
Cambrian Knox formation the well circulated oil to surface. The
well has been logged and is currently in the process of being cased
and completed. The well will be tied-in with appropriate tanks,
pump jack and other surface equipment and put on production as
quickly as possible. Marksmen has a 90% working interest in the
well.
The first well drilled, which was drilled in early May, is now
operating under electric power as of June 14, 2014 which allows the
well to be produced optimally on a 24 hour schedule. The well is
tied in to both oil tanks and a water injection well.
The zone that was completed on the Number 2 Well has been
determined to be uneconomic as an oil producing zone but it has
excellent technical parameters to be a water injection/disposal
well which is an important asset given the oil in this formation is
on top of a water driven reservoir. Additionally, there are other
oil bearing zones that have the potential of being completed at a
later date. The well has been suspended.
The Number 3 Well has been completed and tied-in to tanks and
other surface equipment, including a water injection well. The well
has, since being drilled, flowed oil, periodically, under its own
reservoir pressure. An Allen 80 pump jack, with 80,000 torque
pounds of lift, has been ordered for this well with 2 7/8 inch
tubing in the well. The pump jack is rated at 250 BPD, at twelve
strokes per minute.
In the first quarter of 2014, Marksmen completed a 3D seismic
program on approximately five square miles of land of the AMI (area
of mutual interest). The Company with its joint venture partner has
completed the drilling of four wells in six weeks. Marksmen is now
satisfied that the use of 3D seismic, the drilling of the four
wells and the technical expertise of our technical team and our
joint venture partner has confirmed the methodology being employed.
The wells drilled are a representative cross section of the
Cambrian Knox remnants in the area covered by the 3D seismic
survey. An additional sixteen locations, outlined by the 3D survey,
remain to be tested by the Joint Venture partners.
Marksmen has determined that it is now strategically very
important to spend the necessary time to complete the tie in of the
wells with electrical power; to put them on production and to
generate cash-flow. More importantly it will afford the technical
team the opportunity to complete the necessary technical analysis
to optimize the wells and to accumulate the technical data
necessary for reserve calculations under NI51-101. Additional
drilling on other 3D targets will commence in July.
Archie Nesbitt, CEO and President of Marksmen states, "Marksmen
is very pleased with the results of our drilling program to date
and the very large contribution that 3D seismic and its
interpretation by our technical experts have made to the overall
success to date. The program validates the importance of using the
best 3D seismic techniques available to exploit the oil bearing
zones in this part of Ohio."
Additionally, Marksmen has begun the process of acquiring
additional lands adjacent to its existing land holdings in the
current AMI in order to initiate another 3D seismic program.
The Company has also initiated negotiations with other potential
joint venture partners in the area to undertake a similar program
of 3D seismic and drilling on their current land holdings.
Further information will be released as it becomes
available.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this news release.
This news release may contain certain forward-looking
information and statements, including without limitation,
statements pertaining to the Company's drilling plans and
operations. Oil and gas shows and oil circulated to surface are not
an indication that the Company's Ohio properties contain any
reserves or resources or that there will be commercially viable
production from those properties. All statements included herein,
other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking
information and such information involves various risks and
uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such information will
prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could
differ materially from those anticipated in such information. A
description of assumptions used to develop such forward-looking
information and a description of risk factors that may cause actual
results to differ materially from forward-looking information can
be found in Marksmen's disclosure documents on the SEDAR website at
www.sedar.com. Marksmen does not undertake to update any
forward-looking information except in accordance with applicable
securities laws.
Marksmen Energy Inc.Archie NesbittPresident, Chief Executive
Officerand a Director of the Company(403)
265-7270info@marksmen.ca
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