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Short-term Canadian Natural Gas Deliverability 2005-2007 - Energy Market Assessment

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List of Appendices

A. Analysis Regarding Determination of Number of Future Gas Connections

1. Components of Canadian Rig Fleet
Weekly location of rigs comprising each of the following rig groupings:

a) WCSB rigs
b) eastern Saskatchewan rigs
c) northern Canada rigs
d) east coast offshore rigs
e) eastern Canada onshore rigs

2. WCSB Rig Fleet
Charts of historical and projected rig fleet growth by rig category for:

a) shallow rigs
b) medium rigs
c) deep rigs
d) All rigs

3. WCSB Rig Fleet
Allocation of rig days to study areas:

a) Historical weekly rig count split to main geographic area (North, South and West)

i. shallow rigs
ii. medium rigs
iii. deep rigs

b) Tables of historical and projected annual rig day allocations to study areas:

i. shallow rigs
ii. medium rigs
iii. deep rigs

4. Tables of Historical and Projected Rig Utilization

a) shallow rigs
b) medium rigs
c) deep rigs

5. Tables of Historical and Projected Resource Targets for Drilling

a) shallow rigs
b) medium rigs
c) deep rigs

6. Drill Days per Well for each Resource Target in each Study Area

a) shallow rigs
b) medium rigs
c) deep rigs

7. Historical and Projected Drilling Levels for each Study Area for Gas-Intent and NGC-Intent Wells

a) Table of drill days
b) Table of wells

8. Ratio of Annual Connections to Annual Wells Drilled For Gas Directed and NGC Directed Wells for each Study Area

9. Fraction of Annual Gas Connections for each Month in Year by Study Area

a) Conventional Gas Tables:
Charts for each study area

b) NGC Tables:
Charts for AB-Southeast and AB-Central study areas

B. Analysis Regarding Production Performance

1. Group Performance Parameters for Existing Connections Applicable to Study Areas Comprising the WCSB:

  • Connection year groupings for all gas connections made before January 1, 2004
  • Connection year groupings for all NGC connections made before January 1, 2004
  • Solution gas deliverability Parameters

2. Historic and Projected Performance Parameters for Average Gas Well Connections and Average NGC Connections by Connection Year and Study Area

3. Trend of Initial Productivity of Average Gas Connection by Study Area
- Appendices B.3.a thru B.3.l are charts showing initial productivity trend over time for each Study Area

4. Performance Charts (Rate versus Cumulative Production) for Historical and Projected Average Gas Connections for each Study Area
- Appendices B.4.a thru B.4.l are charts showing average gas connection production profiles for different connection years for each Study Area

C. Analysis Regarding Natural Gas from Coal (NGC)

1. Description of Process to create List of NGC Connections

2. Map of NGC Areas (Horseshoe Canyon and Mannville) and NGC Connections