Fort Nelson drilling team sets world record

One Kiwanga area team was doing what they do best on the A-67-D pad in February by setting a new world record for continuous meterage drilled in a single run at 5,258 metres.

Drilled by Trinidad Rig 48, a rig that has been working for Encana for about four years in the Horn River Basin, this new mark beats the previous Encana and Horn River Basin record of 4,650 metres that the same team set in December of 2011.

This accomplishment is credited to more than three years of ongoing learnings from multiple services companies, bit suppliers, mud companies, Schlumberger directional drilling services and Trinidad drilling. The world record is also a culmination of the efforts of hundreds of Encana personnel, geologists and asset team support, working closely with dedicated field foremen who are committed to a successful and safe operation.

Major project updates

Pipeline construction and compressor station completion in the Kiwigana area (north of Fort Nelson) is expected to be complete by mid-2012.

Quick facts

Our Horn River program was designed to drill long reach, multi-stage horizontal wells using resource play hubs that ultimately develop more of the resource, more efficiently, at a lower cost and all from a single surface location.

The Debolt Water Treatment Plant utilizing the Debolt formation (a deep, sub-surface aquifer containing saline, sour water) supplies water for hydraulic fracturing operations and reduces the water required from surface water sources to 10 percent.