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To: karagiozis who wrote (73)	5/4/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: Poseidonas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 135

Bob Christie finally writes again ---- Relief well nears interception of Lost Hills blowout May 4, 1999 By BOB CHRISTIE Californian staff writer e-mail: bchristie@bakersfield.com A relief well is getting close to intercepting the well bore of a deep natural gas well that has blown out of control near Lost Hills for more than five months. And interested local industry watchers and investors will have the benefit of an in-depth technical presentation on the new gas discovery on Thursday, when a Canadian investment house comes to town for a public showing of its data. The well still is blowing out natural gas and water from more than 17,000 feet underground, but about 10 million cubic feet of the gas and 400 barrels of condensate is being sold each day, and the water injected into disposal wells. The operators hope the latest "kill" attempt could be done within two weeks. For the past five months, the consortium of independent Canadian and U.S. oil companies that drilled the well has been working on plans to drill a series of wells that could show what commercial potential the field holds. Those plans have the next in a series of wells beginning to drill in July. At the site of the relief well, crews running a rig for Nabors Drilling USA have now pushed their drill bit within five feet of the well bore at a depth of more than 16,500 feet, according to several sources close to the operation. A 7-inch casing liner was recently set and is being tested to make sure it can handle the extremely high pressures that caused Elk Point Resources' Bellevue No. 1 to blow out and catch fire on Nov. 23. Once the liner's integrity is ensured, the relief well will be drilled parallel to the blown well for about 150 feet. Then the two well bores will be perforated, and cement pumped in to "kill" the blown well. If successful in killing the well, the relief well is designed to be redrilled to test the formation that has been producing the gas for five months. On Thursday, representatives from the Canadian investment company Eland Jennings Investor Services Inc. will be at the Four Points Sheraton on California Avenue to show a technical presentation on the well, the relief well and the prospective East Lost Hills field The presentation is open to the public and will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. in a hotel meeting room, which will open at 1:30 p.m. ------ Previous