Saskatchewan Oil & Gas Show

Weyburn, Saskatchewan

Location:
Exhibition Grounds

Office Address:
P.O.Box 1450
Weyburn, SK S4H 3J9
Telephone: (306)842-3232
Facsimile: (306)842-4348

Office Location:
Prairie Agencies Ltd.
33-5th Street N.E.
Weyburn, SK.

A PSAC endorsed show

Oil Exploration and Development in Southeast Saskatchewan

1. First recorded drilling was at Wilcox 9-24-13-20 W2M in 1907 to a depth of 442 metres.
2. First significant drilling was by a subsidiary of Imperial Oil in 1942 called Radville No. 1 16-36-5-19 W2M to a depth of 2426 metres.
3. First oil production came in October, 1952, from the well Tidewater Imperial Wapella 9-33-14-1 W2M from the Jurassic/Cretaceous formation at 700 m.
4. First Mississippian formation oil production came from the well central Leduc Oil Hoffer 5-30-1-15 W2M in January, 1953.
5. First unit was the Alida Unit formed on December 1, 1957
6. First waterflood was the Steelman Unit I which commenced injection in September, 1958.
7. First gas plant was the Steelman Gas Plant which commenced operation in 1958.
8. First horizontal well was Shell Midale U EOR Hzntl C9-23-6-11 W2M with a finished drilling date of July 14, 1989.
9. The deepest well was Home Dome Torquay 3-8-1-11 W2M drilled in 1985 to 3394.9 metres
10. The longest well was Oklahoma Continental Resources (OCRI) Lake Alma HZ 1A3-24-3C15-23-1-17 W2M drilled in 2004 to 4800 meters.
11. The most productive well to date has been Imperial Tidewater Queensdale 4-10-6-34 W1M which produced 413,324 cubic meters of oil to September 30, 2004
12. The highest oil production rate recorded was from Sceptre Gainsborough N. HZ C5-5-A3-5-3-30 W1M at 10,194 cubic metres per month or 329 cubic metres per day in May 1990.
13. The drilling record was set in 1997 with 1224 wells drilled.
14. The oil production record was set in 1997 with 9,814,045 cubic meters
15. The cumulative production to September 30, 2004 was 323,570,383 cubic meters of oil.
16. The total number of wells drilled in the area to the end of 2004 was 24,826.
17. The total number of active oil producing wells as of September 2004 was 8,341.
18. First injection of CO₂ for a commercial project was in September 2000, by Pan Canadian Petroleum in the Weyburn Midale unit.
19. Apache Canada plans to spend $100 Million on C0₂ Expansion for Midale Field in SE Saskatchewan.