Surge surges to the top of Saskatchewan’s Top 10 conventional wells in January

By Brian Zinchuk

When your company is named “Surge Energy” and you drill the top conventional well in Saskatchewan, the headline kind of writes itself.

That was one of the nuggets that came out of the list of Top 10 conventional wells in Saskatchewan for January, 2024, published by BlincSoftware. Blinc compiles its numbers from data provided by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources. Much more detailed information can be found at BlincSoftware’s Canadian Petroleum Registry.

This month is also one of the most diversified in recent memory, with only Whitecap showing up with multiple wells on the list. Nine different companies made the top ten, whereas usually Whitecap dominates.

Eight of the wells are in southeast Saskatchewan, and two are on the western side of the province.

Notably, 29 of the top 100 conventional wells in Saskatchewan are in the Whitecap Resources-operated Weyburn Unit. This is significant because those wells benefit from the carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery scheme, taking CO2 from the coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station and the Beulah, North Dakota, Great Plains Synfuels Plant.

As Blinc reports, there are some new faces and big wells on the list so lets go through the highlights:

Surge Energy Inc. took over the top spot with their new drill: 102/01-03-005-06W2/00. Producing an average of 553 bbl oil/day over the month!

Cenovus Energy Inc. and Regina-based ROK Resources Inc. came in at the 2nd and 3rd spot, with an average of 384 bbl oil/day and 374 bbl oil/day.

Axial Exploration Ltd. is also back in the top 10 with their 102/07-21-001-33W1/00 new drill.

Whitecap Resources Inc., Vermilion Energy Inc., Crescent Point Energy Corp., Tundra Oil & Gas Limited and Canadian Natural Resources Limited are also all within the top 10.

Scroll down and click the “Well Details” buttons to see water and gas production and an interactive visual explorer of the facilities and wells on https://registry.schematic.pro/ .

*Note: This list does not include confidential well types. Information is provided using a variety of public data sources. Conventional = non-SAGD and non-Bitumen wells. Total monthly volumes are derived using a factor of 6.2898107704321 bbl/m3 and 30.5 days/month.