Compton Petroleum Corp. (TORONTO: CMT).(Interview)

Publication: Oil and Gas Investor

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OGI: Describe your core drilling and production areas.

Sapieha: When you take a look at Compton with respect to our core drilling programs, we're a deep-basin, unconventional gas player; we've built up an expertise in unconventional gas. We have five resource plays going in Compton. Stratigraphically from Upper Cretaceous Edmonton coalbed methane [CBM], Plains Belly River, thrusted Belly River at Callum to the Lower Mannville Basal Quartz, Gething Sandstones at Hooker and Niton. Additionally, we have an unconventional carbonate Wabamun sour gas pool.

Mark Junghans, VP of Exploration: We basically deal with the same type of unconventional reservoirs that have been drilled within the U.S. for some time. We've been developing that same expertise in Compton. We feel the U.S. is generally ahead of Canadian companies in tight-gas expertise. Our G&G staff primarily have deep basin tight-gas backgrounds. Two of our senior engineers are ex-Canadian Hunter Deep Basin experts. We've basically gone the unconventional route, technically tougher plays requiring specialized knowledges, but...

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