Canada
- Vermilion has over 15 years of successful Canadian operations
- Canada provides a vast source of oil and gas technology and trained personnel
- New well completion techniques are revitalizing the Western Canadian Basin
Operations
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- Background
- Operator in Canada since 1994, with a well established land base
Vermilion operates in three core areas, all in Alberta:
- Drayton Valley - significant resource play exposure across extensive low cost legacy land base
Cardium Light Oil - Control over 150 net sections (96K acres) of land in the Pembina Cardium fairway, with over 260 net net prospects in drillable inventory. Plan to drill 42 net Cardium wells in 2013;
Liquids-Rich Tight Gas - Vermilion has amassed 270 net sections in two large contiguous land blocks spanning the full breadth of the liquids-rich natural gas fairway.
- Utikuma - significant light oil field in northern Alberta; Reservoir optimization and enhancement – one of Vermilion’s five largest oil pools
- Central Alberta - coalbed methane and shallow gas development ; Large inventory of shallow gas CBM wells; Program can be turned on and off quickly depending on commodity prices
- Operate four natural gas plants and hold an ownership interest in a fifth with combined processing capacity of 90 mmcf/d
- Operate five oil batteries with combined processing capacity to handle over 200,000 b/d of fluids including 15,000 b/d of oil
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