NEWS
QUÉBEC CITY, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Nov. 3, 2014) -Pétrolia (TSX VENTURE:PEA) is pleased to provide the following corporate update relating to the commercialization of its oil and gas properties on Anticosti Island and in the Gaspé region of Quebec.
Haldimand Project
The drilling of Haldimand 4 will resume
by mid-November. The drilling rig, already on the site, is fully functional and the drilling team is expected on site in the coming days. The drilling of this well will make it possible to validate the commercial viability of the Haldimand deposit.
Anticosti Project
Due to the change of government and the adoption of a new regulatory framework, the operations on Anticosti Island, planned to start in May 2014, commenced in July 2014. To date, four stratigraphic core holes have been completed and one or two more will be completed in the coming days. In addition, the sites for the 15 core holes have been prepared, which will expedite the resumption of operations next spring.
The presence of the Macasty Formation was confirmed in the four completed stratigraphic core holes. The Chicotte site has revealed a thickness of 67.5 meters, at Lac-Martin the thickness observed is 30 meters, at Jupiter-South the thickness is over 60 meters, and at the eastern part of Anticosti Island and thus, the eastern part of the Macasty Formation, the thickness measured at the Bell site is 13 meters. During these operations, the presence of gas and oil fluorescence was confirmed. This first step has proven successful, the results are encouraging and confirm the potential of the Macasty Formation.
Moreover, once the current core holes are completed, the operations will be temporarily suspended during the winter season. Most of the equipment will stay on the island so that the program can resume in spring 2015. The stratigraphic core hole program will be completed during summer 2015 and, after analyzing the results, the three best locations for the exploration wells will be chosen. Anticosti Hydrocarbons L.P. will, as soon as possible, drill and fracture stimulate three wells.
Bourque
In April 2013, after drilling two wells on this property, the Company disclosed the results of the evaluation of resources made by Sproule Associates Limited (Sproule), which estimated at more than 1 TCF (trillion cubic feet) the volume of undiscovered liquid rich natural gas initially-in-place in four prospects within the Bourque project.
Pétrolia is currently discussing with various partners, both potential clients and business partners, to develop this natural gas. The next steps for Bourque are conducting production tests, drilling a third well and applying for a production license.
About Pétrolia
Pétrolia is a junior oil and gas exploration company which owns interests in oil and gas licenses covering 16,000 km² (4 million acres), which represents almost 23% of the Québec territory under lease. The closing of a partnership on Anticosti Island has led to the creation of Anticosti Hydrocarbons L.P., a limited partnership in which Pétrolia holds a 21.7% interest. In order to carry out the project's operations, Pétrolia Anticosti Inc., a subsidiary of Pétrolia, was designated project operator. Pétrolia is a Quebec company whose objective is to develop oil from here, by the people here, for here. Pétrolia has 77,603,196shares issued and outstanding.
Forward-looking statements
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