Update: August 12, 2010. Deloro Resources Ltd. and its joint venture partner, Electro-Petroleum Inc., have drilled a new well on the Wilkie Heavy Oil Project. Work will begin shortly to prepare the site for the additional electrification equipment required to add the new well to the existing system. Upon completion of this work, a service rig will be brought in to begin production testing. This is the first step in identifying up to 12 additional well locations which will target prospective areas of the McLaren zone using Electro-Petroleum Inc.'s (EPI) EEOR - Electrically Enhanced Oil Recovery SM technology.
On October 15, 2009 Deloro announced that the pilot test of Electro-Petroleum's (EPI) Electrically Enhanced Oil Recovery (EEOR) at the Wilkie field had been successfully completed. The test demonstrated that the EEOR process has been able to improve the API gravity and reduce the viscosity of the crude by approximately 50% (services performed by Husky Oil Marketing Company-Analytical Services Laboratory).
Deloro and Electro-Petroleum (EPI) will now proceed with their joint venture to fully develop Wilkie.
For the pilot test, EPI retrofitted an existing horizontal well at the Wilkie site. While analysis of the produced crude showed that the EEOR process was able to upgrade the oil, several issues with the configuration of the existing well limited potential flow rates. Going forward the joint venture will work to address the issues on this particular well, and will proceed with drilling and development of new wells custom designed for the EEOR process.
"We were very pleased with the results we saw during the test, especially the ability of EEOR to upgrade the oil by non-thermal means in the reservoir," stated Philip Bell, President and CEO of EPI. "We are looking forward to expanding with the drilling of additional wells specifically designed for our EEOR process and moving toward commercial production at Wilkie."
The Wilkie is a heavy oil project on a land package of 3,765 leased acres. These government of Saskatchewan leases cover a channel in the McLaren zone one-half to three-fourths of a mile wide and approximately five miles long. The zone is at a depth of 2,035 feet with six vertical wells and one horizontal well drilled into the structure defining a heavy oil pay zone with gross sand thickness of 30 to 50 feet.
The discovered resources were calculated based on McLaren sand net pay isopach maps and the average reservoir parameters. The original discovered resources underneath company land were calculated to be approximately 63.1 million stock tank barrels
Deloro Resources has reached an agreement with Electro-Petroleum, Inc.(EPI) to conduct a full pilot test using EPI's Electrically Enhanced Oil Recovery (EEOR) technology on Deloro's heavy oil Wilkie field. Deloro will provide use of existing facilities, wells, field supervision and operating support while EPI will provide the EEOR technology, related technical leadership and all incremental capital and operating costs associated with conducting the tests. Once the pilot test is deemed successful the project will proceed to full development and EPI will earn a 10% working interest in the Wilkie project for the use of its technology. Visit the EPI website.
Reliance Engineering Group completed an independent report in which estimates of discovered resources were performed in accordance with National Instrument 51-101 guidelines and generally accepted industry standards. Click here to read the Reliance Engineering report
Chapman Petroleum Engineering Ltd. recently completed an updated engineering report on the Wilkie Property in accordance with National Instrument 51-101 guidelines and generally accepted industry standards. Click here to read the Chapman Petroleum Engineering report
Wilkie is surrounded by hundreds of wells (depicted in green).
This satellite image depicts Deloro's Wilkie land package and the Cathkin horizontal well location.
As illustrated in the above model, the wilkie discovered oil is intersected by six vertical wells which penetrate a 2400 foot horizontal well
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