Deep Basin

Southern Alberta – Hooker Deep Gas. Click image for full-size view.

Compton has two Deep Basin gas plays: the Basal Quartz sands at Hooker and the Gething/Rock Creek sands at Niton and Caroline in central Alberta. 

 

Southern Alberta: Hooker

Discovered by Compton in 1999, the Basal Quartz sandstone pool at Hooker is the southern Alberta extension of the Lower Cretaceous Deep Basin gas trend.  Current production extends over five townships, and in 2007, we drilled 10 wells at Hooker. 

 

In March 2008, Compton successfully completed the first horizontal well in southern Alberta at Niton targeting the Basal Quartz formation utilizing multi-stage fracturing technology. The well at 9-17-17-29W4 was drilled with a 700 metre horizontal leg that flow tested at six mmcf/d.  It is scheduled to be tied-in during mid March. A second horizontal well is currently drilling at 15-30-16-29W4 and 15 follow-up locations have been identified.

 

While Compton has been employing horizontal drilling and multi-stage frac technology in the Niton area in central Alberta with good success, the 9-17 well at Hooker is of major significance in that it establishes that this technology is applicable to the development of the Hooker Basal Quartz play in southern Alberta.  To date the Hooker play has been developed through drilling one to two vertical wells per section.  Reservoir modeling indicates up to four vertical wells per section may be necessary to fully develop the play.  A horizontal well could replace two to three vertical wells, eliminating the need for extensive down-spacing in the area.