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Crude Oil and Natural Gas Property Information (Unaudited)
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Crude Oil and Natural Gas Property Information (Unaudited) [Abstract]  
CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS PROPERTY INFORMATION (Unaudited)
16.CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS PROPERTY INFORMATION (Unaudited)

 

Results of Operations from Oil and Gas Producing Activities

 

The following table sets forth the results of the Company’s operations from oil producing activities from the Company’s Sawn Lake oil sands properties located in Alberta, Canada, for the years ending September 30, 2018 and 2017:

 

   September 30,
2018
  September 30,
2017
 
 Oil sales after royalties $  $ 
          
 Production (Operating) expenses      
 Depreciation, accretion and depletion  (54,036)  (75,232)
 Oil sales less expenses  (54,036)  (75,232)
 Income tax expenses      
 Results of operations from producing activities $(54,036) $(75,232)

 

There was no production volumes or revenues for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2018 and 2017, due to a majority of the Company’s Joint Venture partners voting to temporarily suspend operations of the SAGD Project at the end of February 2016.

 

Operating expenses are zero since at this time they were paid for under the Farmout Agreement. Transportation costs are included in these operating costs. The total share of the material costs and operating expenses of the Company’s joint Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage Demonstration project (“SAGD Project”), has been funded in accordance with the Farmout Agreement, at a net cost to the Company of $Nil. As required by the Farmout Agreement, the Farmee has since reimbursed the Company and or paid the operator in total approximately $20.8 million (Cdn $27.0 million) for the SAGD Project for the Farmee’s share and the Company’s share of the capital costs and operating expenses of the SAGD Project up to September 30, 2018These costs include the drilling and completion of one SAGD well pair; the purchase and transportation of equipment of which included the once through steam generator (“OTSG”), production tanks, water treatment plant, and power generators; installation and construction of the steam plant facility; testing and commissioning; the purchase of the water source and disposal wells and expenditures to connect these water wells with pipelines to the steam plant facility along with a fuel source tie-in pipeline; equipment for processing and treating the bitumen production at the SAGD facility site; and the monthly operating expenses associated with the steaming and production of the SAGD well pair up to September 30, 2018. The capital costs to complete the SAGD Project steam plant facility with one SAGD well pair was approximately $26.5 million (Cdn $34.8 million) on a 100% working interest basis, of which the Company’s share was covered under the Farmout Agreement. These capital costs do not include the start-up operating expenses to initiate oil production from the SAGD well pair.

 

SAGD Project Outlook - The SAGD Project has successfully shown the capability of producing oil from the Bluesky reservoir using steam. The SAGD Project has:

 

confirmed that the SAGD process works in the Bluesky formation at Sawn Lake;
established characteristics of ramp up through stabilization of SAGD performance;
indicated the productive capability and steam-oil ratio (“SOR’), of the reservoir; and
provided critical information required for well and facility design associated with future commercial development.

 

The first SAGD well pair, for the SAGD Project, was drilled to a vertical depth of approximately 650 meters with a horizontal length of 780 meters each. Steam injection commenced in May 2014 and production started in September of 2014. Production from this one SAGD well pair increased significantly over the 18-month period it produced. Over January and February of 2016 production from the SAGD Project averaged 615 bopd, on a 100% basis (154 bopd net to us), with an average SOR of 2.1 from one SAGD well pair. The SOR is reflective of the amount of steam needed to produce one barrel of oil. This SAGD Project was temporarily suspended at the end of February 2016. The Company anticipates that a reactivation of the existing SAGD Project facility and current SAGD well pair will be part of a potential commercial expansion. In early May of 2016, an amended application was submitted to the Alberta Energy Regulator (“AER”) for an expansion of the existing SAGD Project facility site which would potentially increase the operation for up to a total of eight SAGD well pairs. This expansion application sought approval to expand the current SAGD Project facility site to 3,200 bopd (100% basis). The Company anticipates that only five SAGD well pairs will need to be operating to achieve this production level. The expanded facility will be designed to handle up to 3,200 bopd. The AER approval for this expansion of the Company’s existing SAGD Project was granted in December of 2017. While the joint venture has not yet approved to expand the SAGD Project facility, currently the SAGD Project continues to move forward with engineering and identification of long lead time items towards potential expansion to 3,200 bopd and future commercial development at Sawn Lake.

 

Capitalized Costs Relating Specifically to the SAGD Project

 

The Company entered into a Farmout Agreement dated July 31, 2013, whereby the Company’s operating costs of the SAGD Project are paid in full by the Farmee in accordance with the Farmout Agreement; therefore, the Company has not capitalized any of the capital costs and operating expenses paid by the Farmee to the operator of the SAGD Project. See Note 4 herein “Capitalization of Costs Incurred in Oil and Gas Activities”.

 

Costs Incurred in Oil and Gas Property Acquisition, Exploration, and Development

 

See Note 5 herein “Exploration Activities”.