Tenth Avenue Petroleum Corp. ("TPC" or the "Company") (TSXV:TPC) is pleased to provide an operational update on its recent field activities.
The Company has executed on several key initiatives including closing of its Patricia Acquisition of 82 boe/d, increasing fluid handling capacity to further support its ongoing Mannville enhanced oil recovery project at Murray Lake and minor workovers at its Hays & Vulcan properties. As a result of these activities corporate production is approximately 212 boe/d (46% Oil) based on current field estimates.
Murray Lake
At Murray Lake, the Company successfully completed all key infrastructure and upgrades to its fluid handling capacity and production was fully restored on November 15, 2024. Since completing the infrastructure upgrades, the Company has steadily increased its water injection volumes to approximately 926 bwpd (barrels of water per day) while also seeing its oil production steadily increase to over 43 bbls/d.
The Company plans to continue to gradually increase its waterflood injection volumes into the Mannville "A" pool, targeting a fluid injection range of between 1,200 and 1,400 bwpd, with the objective of increasing its voidage replacement and recovery factor. The waterflood program was initiated in 2008 and to date has been supported by a 3% average decline rate, resulting in a predictable production stream and future cash flow, when operating at capacity.
The original oil in place from this Mannville "A" pool is internally mapped at approximately 8.9 million Barrels with less than 9% recovered to date. Several Mannville oil pools in the Southern Alberta region have analogous geology and hydrocarbon properties which have seen up to 20-30% recovery factors when waterflood programs have been applied successfully with optimal injection and development drilling patters.
The positive response to the waterflood upgrades has been detected based on field observations and the Company is pleased with these initial responses. Management believes the recently completed infrastructure upgrades will provide both short-term and long-term benefits to the ongoing operation at Murray Lake, including higher recovery factors, higher production volumes, reduced fixed operating costs resulting in higher cashflows, without incurring future drilling costs.
Hays & Vulcan
Additionally, the Company completed several reactivation and optimization activities targeting the Mannville zone at its Hays and Vulcan properties. Two minor workovers at Hays and Vulcan were completed in addition to a reactivation of a shut-in gas well, which has increased production, in aggregate, by approximately 8 bbs/d oil and 248 mcf/d gas ( 49 boe/d equivalent).
The Company continues to closely monitor natural gas prices and will intermittently curtail natural gas production, if the Company cannot achieve positive wellhead netbacks.
Mannville Basal Quartz Un-booked upside
At Hays, the Company continues to validate its meaningful 4.5 sections (at 99% working interest) oil focused opportunity targeting the Mannville Basal Quartz (BQ). Recent offsetting horizontal BQ wells have utilized modern drilling and completions designs techniques which are showing impressive IP rates, EUR's, with payouts in ~9 months and deliver IRR's >150% (assuming $75 WTI/$3.00 AECO). The Company's existing 9-30 well logs and current vertical well has produced in excess +28,000 boe of oil, which further validates the existing porosity channel sands and existing carbonate reservoir, over the Company's mapped land base where it has identified up to 12 (un-booked) potential future horizontal drilling targets. The general area has recently seen an increase of drilling and M&A activity targeting the Mannville Basal Quartz zone, which is mapped and available within the new corporate presentation, link below.
The Company will continue to evaluate other future accretive acquisition opportunities in an effort further scale its operations, while working to increase its netbacks through operating cost reduction, while optimizing its existing assets, tuck-in acquisitions while balancing its capital expenditures within its cashflow.
Stock Option Grant
The Company has also approved its annual stock option grant of up to 1,345,000 common shares which were granted to certain directors, officers, and consultants of the Company. Each of the stock options is exercisable into common shares for a 3-year term expiring on January 20, 2026, at a price of $0.10 per common share. The options are subject to vesting provisions, with one-third vesting on the date of grant, one-third vesting on the first anniversary and the remaining one-third on the second anniversary of the date of grant. The stock options are non-transferable and will be subject to a four month hold period in accordance with the Company's stock option plan.
An updated corporate presentation can be found at www.tenthavenuepetroleum.com
For further information please contact:
Tenth Avenue Petroleum Corp.
Cameron MacDonald, President & CEO
Phone: (403) 585-9875
Email: cmacdonald@tenthavenuepetroleum.com
www.tenthavenuepetroleum.com
About Tenth Avenue Petroleum Corp.
Tenth Avenue Petroleum Corp. is a junior oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in Alberta.
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Oil and Gas Advisories
Meaning of Boe
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Reserves Estimates
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SOURCE: Tenth Avenue Petroleum Corp.
