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Oil/Water Exploration by Harold White I was just talking to my friend Jereal in Kentucky. He does radiometrics oil and water detecting. He was working with another guy, hydraulically fracturing an oil well. I told him when I was drilling oil wells there back in the old days, I would ask the different drilling contractors what they had encountered that day. Some would say all they hit was an ocean of salt water. I asked Jereal if they still say that. He said yes, and they talk like they really do think they hit the ocean. He heard of a company that hit an ocean of salt in the Knox Formation over by Columbia. I am interested in knowing more about the Knox Formation, the direction it lays, the possible flow it has, the exact depth, etc. He said all that information can be found by walking over it. The salt water there is a salt creek, the same as all the others. If someone drills a good oil well too close to one of these salt creeks and the creek finds a leak to the oil, there will be saltwater intrusion - any- where in the world. Saltwater intrusion is most visible by the ocean during the incom- ing tide. The ocean comes in against the river until high tide, and then the river water is above the incoming power of the tide. The river at this point is not affected. Underground creeks from a high elevation can run into the ocean at great depths with no saltwater intrusion because the pressure of the creek is greater. Freshwater plants don’t like salt water, so that may be part of the reason for the rain cycle. The rain is fresh, absorbs the salt, and takes it to the ocean. Harold michele@ worldwidedrillingresource.com G&O 28 SEPTEMBER 2019 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Hemisphere Energy Commences 2019 Drill Program Adapted from Information by Hemisphere Energy Corporation Hemisphere Energy Corporation has started its 2019 drilling program in southernAlberta, Canada, with plans to drill up to 16 wells in the Atlee Buffalo area during the year. In 2019, Hemisphere is committed to taking a measured approach to capital spending as it balances annual growth in production, reserves, and cash flow with commodity price volatility and corporate debt. They will continue monitoring oil and Western Canadian Select differential pricing throughout the program, and adjust drilling if required. The company completed drilling the first well of the program, and is drilling the second horizontal well targeting the Glauconitic sand- stones of the Mannville Group. The first horizontal well encountered over 2460 feet of oil pay and is awaiting completion and tie-in operations with production. The property has two oil pools, F pool and G pool. Both pool facilities were expanded in 2018 to enhance water separtion and increase pro- duction. Additional facility upgrades to the G pool battery are currently underway. The number of producing oil wells is expected to increase from 8 to 19 after this drilling program. Hemisphere currently has six water injectors in the G pool, and plans to drill one dedicated water injector as part of this program. Based on field estimates from June, corporate production was approximately 1445 barrels of oil equivalent a day. Editor’s Note: In between our print issues, the WWDR Team prepares an electronic newsletter called E-News Flash . Based on readership, this was the most popular E-News Flash article of the month. Get in on the action and subscribe today at: www.worldwidedrillingresource.com DIR