In addition, the well logs have been run and the intermediate casing has been cemented in the well.
Many intervals saturated in natural gas were encountered during the drilling of the well, of which five intervals were cored between the depths of 840m and 1,264m.
A total of 16.4m of core was recovered and will be subsequently analyzed in order to allow the estimation of the volume of gas-in-place resources on Junex’s acreage located in the structured portion of the Utica basin, approximately 15km from the St-Edouard No 1H horizontal well.
Located in the structural extension of the St-Flavien natural gas field that produced from Beekmantown Formation dolomites, Junex will proceed to drill the Junex Villeroy No 1 well to an estimated depth of 2,000m in order to reach a conventional target in the Trenton-Black River and Beekmantown formations.
The company said that no fracturing operations are foreseen over the short term for the Junex Villeroy No 1 well.
The Villeroy No 1 well is the first well to be drilled on the 108,000 acre-sized Lyster block of permits that is held at 100% by Junex.
