Energy Exploration Technologies (NXT) said Tuesday that pipeline construction would commence in the first week of the new year to connect the company’s Poblano-area natural gas wells in Sublette County, WY to existing transmission lines in the vicinity of the Jonah gas field.

Mountain Gas Resources Inc., a subsidiary of Western Gas Resources Inc., informed NXT that all Bureau of Land Management (BLM) permits have been approved and construction is set to proceed. The 11-mile pipeline will connect and subsequently take away the production from the Poblano Federal 1-28 and Juel Spring 3-2 wells (NXT 22.5% working interest).

NXT said it expects to begin producing gas from these wells into the pipeline by February 2002, at which time it will report on flow rates. The company added that it also has interests in two gas wells adjacent to the pipeline that will be completed and tied in if flow rates from the first two wells are encouraging.

Elsewhere in the Green River Basin, NXT’s U.S. joint venture partner, CamWest Exploration LLC, has informed it that the drilling of the first well on the Antelope Tail prospect (22.5% NXT working interest) will be postponed until the second quarter of 2002 due to BLM-mandated environmental restrictions.

Completion of the BLM’s prairie dog population distribution study is expected in January or February 2002, at which time a drilling permit for Antelope Tail should be issued, NXT said. Due to a spring moratorium, the company said it expects to begin drilling the field in June 2002.

NXT is an oil and natural gas exploration company based in Calgary, AB, that utilizes its unique proprietary SFD reconnaissance survey system to gain a competitive advantage in developing its prospect inventory.

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