View Encana's 2012 First Quarter Interim Report.
Our operations in the Grande Cache area focus on extracting natural gas from deep basin tight gas formations using the latest technology in horizontal drilling and multi-zone hydraulic fracturing. New wells in this area produce on average two million to five million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of sweet natural gas.
To put this into perspective, one day's production from our Bighorn resource play (about 230 million cubic feet) would meet the natural gas needs of about 2,100 Alberta homes for one year.
As part of the Resthaven 8-11-60-3W6M gas plant expansion, which will add 200 (MMcf/d) to the existing 100 MMcf/d process, a water pit is being built adjacent to the seven- well pad site to collect spring runoff.
A dedicated water line is being installed from the water pit to this pad site to minimize trucking and tankage, which is necessary to haul and store water for fracture stimulation operations. Dedicated water lines are also being installed on a number of new pad sites being built nearby, which will be tied into the same water pit and will again minimize truck traffic for future completion operations.
The planned completion date for the Resthaven gas plant expansion is late June 2013.
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