| The SAB-1 exploration well was spudded in the Sabanero exploration license. |
| A second appraisal well in the Hovea oil field is expected to be spudded later this month. |
| After a relatively warm December, no new wells had been spudded by year-end. |
| The first horizontal well in the Bakken was spudded by Meridian Oil in 1987, long before the current boom. |
| The well will be spudded in late July and is expected to take just over two months to complete. |
| Three wells were also spudded by Ranger in the central Mackenzie Valley southeast of Norman Wells. |
